brickfrog

Tried it out a few years back, it sort of works okay for those looking for something like this. Its interesting feature is the ability to search among other clients running the same software so it's a sort of distributed search. To do that I think it has to advertise the torrents you've downloaded/loaded in the client so other people can find yours in the search.

The UI is a bit difficult to understand, takes a while to figure it out how to actually use it IMO. Probably a good idea to read the usage manual on their github page.

Banning piracy? Like the mere encouragement or?

Just the mere encouragement & discussion, yes. The banned communities do not allow direct links to pirated content (!piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com has a rule forbidding that).

It's strange to see people saying there was some sort of legit reasoning, the lemmy.world admins did not receive any sort of legal DMCA/NTD request or anything of the sort. They were simply trolled hard by a brand new account from lemm.ee asking to defederate from "piracy" communities and lemmy.world admins took the bait. See the post yourself https://lemmy.world/post/3175920

Incidentally that same user has created troll accounts at other instances & have been getting themselves banned, they were already banned at the dbzer0 instance (see https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/1956277) so it looks like it was simple retaliation to attempt to trick other instances into defederating/blocking them.

I don’t know if I’d consider this a issue with Whisparr or with the tracker.

Maybe a bit of both, you could reach out to both of them I guess. But overall I'd think the onus is on Whisparr devs to work towards being compatible with any indexer thrown their way. It is unlikely that any tracker admins will prioritize being compatible with Whisparr so tracker admins may not see it as an issue worth fixing on there end.

EDIT: Not sure if you can see this reply since Lemmy.world just started blocking piracy related communities (see https://lemmy.world/post/3175920), may be worth creating an account here or another Lemmy instance that isn't blocking !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Lemmy world is turning into Reddit v2

Not really, even Reddit still has piracy related subreddits (at least for now).

Unclear what you are talking about, you mention Scene but also quote my comment about P2P. Which one did you mean? They are totally different.

The scene doesn't do anything with torrents/usenet/etc., they are all about their own FTP servers. Yes, other people do have access to them & then spread those releases over to torrents/usenet/etc. but that's not the scene doing it.

P2P are the internal release groups at private torrent trackers. Most of them are not interested in uploading anything to usenet/IRC. Other people do grab those releases & then spread them elsewhere e.g. usenet/IRC.

You can though it's a bit of a roundabout way of doing it.

P2P releases typically come from private trackers, so you're having them go from private trackers --> usenet --> public/private torrents

Scene releases that leak to the public typically hit private trackers/usenet around the same time, so you're having those go scene --> private trackers/usenet --> public/private torrents

In others words anything you're seeing in usenet has already been uploaded to at least some private trackers & possibly public torrents.

Of course with public torrents anything goes, unfortunately with the demise of RARBG public torrent users are only seeing a fraction of scene/p2p releases. 1337x/TorrentGalaxy does cover some of this but they aren't covering nearly as much as the RARBG uploaders used to. So IMO if you're seeing a scene/p2p release that hasn't already been uploaded at 1337x/TorrentGalaxy then sure go ahead & create the torrent from your usenet download.

If it's indeed an issue then you may want to submit it in their Github so that it could be fixed in the future?

https://github.com/Whisparr/Whisparr/issues

Interestingly someone did submit something similar a while back, but for some reason the submitter closed their own issue without any code being submitted to resolve it. Unclear what happened there or if it's related to your issue https://github.com/Whisparr/Whisparr/issues/58

OP had a different issue (see comments further below). They throttled themselves by severely limiting their own upload speed in the torrent client.

That aside you can always torrent without a port forward but the speeds & connectivity will heavily depend on other peers present in the torrent swarm. You're relying on other connectable peers in the torrent swarm to be able to download torrent data through. If they don't exist, or there's not many of them, then you will have performance issues.

e.g. In large torrent swarms you may not notice much difference since there should be plenty of other connectable peers to make direct connections with. The smaller the torrent swarm the less likely you'll find as many connectable peers which can lead to slower speeds.

And in much smaller swarms without any connectable peers you won't be able to download anything at all - All the firewalled (not connectable, not port forwarded) peers can see each other but they cannot initiate a data transfer until a connectable peer joins the swarm.

It is impossible to port forward with a VPN service that does not offer port forwarding. You'd have to subscribe to a different VPN provider.

Make sure you are fully connectable (port forwarded). To check this you will want to test your torrent client's incoming connection port with a 3rd party port test website e.g. https://www.canyouseeme.org/, https://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports/, https://portchecker.co/, etc. Those websites should be able to successfully connect to your torrent client's incoming connections port. If the test fails then you need to look at adding an incoming port forward in your network router's configuration.

Also make sure DHT/PEX is enabled in your torrent client (those are enabled by default).

PS - The above is if you're not using a VPN/Proxy (you didn't mention using one).. definitely don't re-configure your router configuration if you intend to use a VPN/Proxy, all port forwarding needs to happen on the VPN/Proxy server in those cases.

You may need to reach out to your VPN provider's support to check if that is a supported feature. Many VPN providers with port forward support can only do it within their application.

Bitsearch and Solidtorrents’ Login and Sign Up buttons don’t work at all for me, even with extensions disabled (Firefox, Chromium)

I don't think you require an account to upload/add a torrent hash there, give it a go without registering.

TPB either loads the takedown page (brazilian one), or refuses to load (VPN), otherwise I’d upload there, I have an old account.

See the TPB official domains in their forums https://pirates-forum.org/status

For blocked websites you can try changing your system's DNS, or use a VPN, or use a proxy, or use Tor Browser.

Note that you do need to register/post in the TPB forums to request to register/upload at the main TPB site.