u/phospholipid77

Hey there. I'm working on qBt 5.0.1 through SeedIt4Me. I would like to sort my torrents by "last activity" but I don't see that option when I right click the column headers. Broadly, there are fewer options. Before I get into a conversation with SeedIt4Me support to see if they can enable those features, I'm wondering if what I want is even possible or if it's just not available in the web UI.

Thanks for any insights. Cheers!

I'm trying to understand a little bit about how torrent culture works in 2026, so I'd like to share a reflection and maybe get some feedback.

I just started shifting back into the realm of private trackers. I started with Torrent Leech because I could get in easily by just renting a seedbox which I've wanted to try anyway.

Right away, I noticed some confusing dynamics. There were so many people seeding newer things that sometimes the seeding census is 100-fold higher than leeching. My old school torrenting brain immediately thought, "Well, certainly we want to seed things where there is a scarcity of seeders." So I go searching for things like that. I pulled a few items and they didn't get much movement.

Then I saw an article on TL about automated seeding. It was a set of instructions that encouraged me to automate an instance of qBittorrent inside of my seedbox to automatically check TL every hour for something *new* so that I could bring that in quickly and start seeding it. It seems like a good idea. See often and early. But I'm looking now and I'm wondering if there isn't a problem with it.

I'm wondering if this creates a situation where the computational resources expended end up inflated relative to what people are actually using, watching, or desiring. So then I, myself, and 900 other users who all want to be good seeders end up with a seedbox full of items we grabbed automatically, and that are all prioritized by their newness. Isn't it possible or even likely that a brand new media drop of Garbage Show that Everybody Hates ends up flush with seeders who are parked seedin this asset, and that these seeders are seeding this asset to people who are gathering it with the same goal, of seeding, and we all end up with is solely for the sake of seeding it? And then this asset ends up experiencing wide storage and extensive transmission that, relative to its actual viewing an enjoyment, ends up all being a massive... waste?

[EDIT: The article actually said that any torrent older than five minutes is already going to be saturated with seeders so not to bother. While the article pointed that out as a tactical variable, it also seems to be evidence for my point here.]

Please understand that I'm comparing this to my experiences in 2005-2009 or so when there were a few really great private trackers that had a balance of community, where performance was maybe not as important, and collections were just as key as your ratio. Your ratio was important, yes. But it was just as much of a virtue to digging up something that needed seeding, waiting the weeks it took to get to 100% status, and then announce that you were prepared to refresh the asset. And dropping arcane media was considered much hotter than always pumping new media which was already likely to have thousands of seeds.

This, by the way, brings up another curiosity for me. In order to be an uploader on TL, you have to make a commitment to be always uploading. But what if I have a very specific collection of avant garde films from a specific 1970s director? I can see they are not in TL, and I know for sure a few hundred folks would love them. But, if I apply to upload them, get uploaded status, upload and hurray... and then I stop there... I lose that uploader status meaning I have to re-earn it or something. So if a year later I come across another stash of something niche and brilliant, I can't upload it because I lost the status because I haven't also been sitting at home ripping the newest season of Garbage Show that Everybody Hates, for example. Is this is another case of over-valuing volume?

These are early expressions of early misgivings. I could be seeing this all wrong. And I'm very open to that. There may be some long game I'm not seeing. There could be a million possibilities. I'm posting this in earnest and I'm not trying to tear anything down. I'm hoping for some other ideas and other points of view.

Thanks to anybody who wants to reflect on this. Be well. Cheers!

I've gotta say, torrenting in 2026 is very different from in 2006. And that's not a bad thing.

I'm looking for a little support in being a responsible peer/seeder. I'm seeing a lot of leeching behavior that's predatory. You all know what I'm talking about.

I want to maybe boil down who has access to me. I'm looking at PeerBanHelper and I am wondering what some of you think about it. I don't see a lot of conversation about it—some, but not a ton. A couple folks have expressed success. But on another sub I saw somebody say they would never use a tool like that, and it got me curious. Is it good? Bad? I'm curious about your experiences.

If not PeerBanHelper, are there other unified ways to achieve the same effect and that specifically have the feature of a dashboard and clearly viewable options?

I will at some point start moving to private trackers, so I am likely not ever going to use qBittorrent-enhanced. But I will not use private trackers exclusively. So I'll still want a savvy tool.

And thoughts or insights about what systems, setups, or configurations you use would be fantastic. Thank you for your time. Cheers!

I said this before here, but torrenting in 2026 is very different from in 2006. And that's not a bad thing.

I'm looking for a little support in being a responsible peer/seeder. I'm seeing a lot of leeching behavior that's predatory. You all know what I'm talking about.

I want to maybe boil down who can access me. I'm looking at PeerBanHelper and I am wondering what some of you think about it. I don't see a lot of conversation about it in this sub. On another sub I saw somebody say they would never use a tool like that, and it got me curious.

If not PeerBanHelper, are there other unified ways to achieve the same effect that specifically have a dashboard and clearly viewable options?

I may start moving quickly to private trackers, so I am likely not going to use qBittorrent-enhanced.

And thoughts or insights about what systems you use would be fantastic. Thank you for your time. Cheers!

After like 18 years of running Transmission without a second thought, I'm in love with qBittorrent.

I have one small issue. I have my alternative speed limit for uploads set to 50 KiB/s. However, when I use the toggle button in the bottom of the workspace to trigger the speed limits, qB sort of barely slows down for a moment, and then just goes right back to running at like 2-5 MiB/s.

I've checked for updates and I'm up-to-date at version 5.0.5; I'm running Sonoma 14.5; I'm using Proton VPN+ with port forward.

I've tried relaunching the app. I've tried changing the settings and changing them back—turning them on and then off to try to re-assert the preferences file.

Oddly enough, it was working perfectly fine yesterday.

Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Cheers!

Is there a way to tell JF to prioritize bandwidth when our environment is rough?

Everything is going very well for me in my initial stages of learning Jellyfish. My web clients and my device clients are great. Well, mostly. The iPhone client kinda stinks, so I'm using Swiftfin which is only a little bit better (so far as I can tell).

What I'm curious about is transcoding for one specific circumstance. I don't really need it at large. Everything is great. However, when we are away from a WAN signal—when we are using mobile device data—things are really rough.

In that situation, I'd like to somehow tell JF to push out a lower quality version of the file in storage.

It's not essential. It may be impossible. And I can go without watching movies on data. But I suspect is might be doable. In situations where Netflix or YouTube face the same bandwidth constraints they're chugging along. Do we have similar capabilities in Jellyfin?

Thanks in advance for any ideas. Cheers!

I'm looking for a way to include a Director category for my films that has some permanence and that spans across all users.

The latter quality means (I think) using Collections won't work for me.

I do know that I can search by director, get an image, and it will show all of the films we have by that director. That's actually pretty marvelous. I would love some sort of permanent way to include something like that in, for example, the Home menu or as one of the drop-down options when a person goes to Movies.

I don't see a clear way to do this directly within JellyFin menus. Is there a hidden or back-end way of doing it? Is there a plug-in that might help? I'm a little skeptical of plugins. I remember from my heavy Minecraft days that a plug-in can do wonders or wreak havoc on a server.

I've seen similar posts but not exactly, so I thought I'd ask.

Any direction of ides would be most appreciated. Cheers!

I'm curious about what experiences people have had with Caddy Manager.

I don't run multiple iterations of Caddy. My use case is a little different. For the life of me, I cannot wrap my head around most apps that are CLI. I'm dyslexic, and I have some other cognitive processing issues that make CLI difficult for me. I can do it. I have a handful of things that I have going that are CLI only. It's just so hard for me to keep up with visualizing everything in my head. I just do so much better if I have a GUI. If I can see shit, manipulate things, witness operations and alerts, etc etc.

So that's why I have been looking at Caddy Manager. Seems like it could help me out.

Any users out there who love it? Who hate it?

EDIT: Somebody really down-voted a human who is asking for some assistance that might help them. I gotta tell you, the carpentry and woodworking subreddits are much kinder than tech ones.

I'm coming back into running torrents after many many many years away from it. One thing I have always valued is being a good seeder of niche content. Shit, an arcane font library I originally created almost 20 years ago and pushed through Demonoid is STILL floating around out there. Lost to see it.

I'm using qBittorrent on macOS with a decent (but not mind-blowing) connection. I have lots and lots of 100%s on lots of stuff. Something I notice is that when I click on Peers, I see people sitting there with 0%, and I see myself sitting there with 100%, but I don't see any seeding happening.

I am seeding a few other things fine. But there is a whole bank of data that I can see people want, and that I can see that I have, and it's sitting there at 0 upload speed for those items.

I imagine there are a LOT of variables at play that I don't quite understand. But is there anything I can do to make sure I'm optimizing my availability to others?

Thanks so much for any insights. Cheers

This is not a serious matter at all.

I've used Transmission on macOS for, gosh... nearly 18 years or something. Today I switched to qBittorrent. I did it for one reason: speed.

I ran X number of the same magnets of each application, with roughly the same openness on each app, and with some other variables controlled for. On aggregate, qB completed the downloads in about 60-80% faster times, with some of the files downloading almost 300% faster. There was only one instance where Transmission kept a connection alive that qB didn't, but in neither case did I actually complete that file.

I am wondering if anybody who knows about these things can give me a lesson into why that is. What might be going on under the hood of each application that one is so much more swift at delivering the end result?

Thanks so much for any ideas or insights. Cheers!