PSA - If you are in any private trackers start cross-seeding
If you don't already have cross-seed or Qui running, set it up now. While cross-seed is superior at this function, it does have a harder initial setup.
Huge benefits:
- Free BON: You dl from only one tracker but can cross-seed to all others increasing your bonus point acquisition among the other trackers.
- Hardlinking: Cross-seeding supports hardlinking so you don't have to download multiple of the same torrents from other trackers. One file is all you need to seed to all the other trackers.
- Add 100's of torrents w/o downloading anything: Anytime you join a new tracker cross-seed will slowly scan through all of your active torrents and cross-seed as many as it can find. When I joined BLU, after letting cross-seed do its thing overnight I woke up to over 100 torrents successfully seeding and earning me BON without downloading anything or hurting my ratio.
Worth pairing with Autobrr. I let it grab my torrents to help me race with others and it usually spreads out my downloads among trackers nicely. Set it and forget it. It can also plug into Qui and cross-seed new torrents as soon as they drop. Because of this I actually run both Qui and cross-seed:
- Cross-seed to do just that: cross-seed
- Qui alongside Autobrr to grab new torrents/cross-seeds as they are uploaded.
PSA: Don't forget to still use your trackers appropriately and diversify your downloads. Don't be just a cross-seeder at any tracker; contribute.