Hey yall, just for fun I had the idea of making our own community tier list for trackers. Lumping them all together regardless of category, just rating them on how well they do what they do.
Commit if you have any changes or additions and I will update!
S-Tier
- HDBits (HDB) - Movies/TV
- PassThePopcorn (PTP) - Movies
- BroadcasTheNet (BTN) - TV
- Redacted (RED) - Music
- GazelleGames (GGn) - Games
A-Tier
- Anthelion (ANT) - Moives
- Nebulance (NBL) - TV
- BeyondHD (BHD) - Movies/TV
- Blutopia (Blu) - Movies/TV
- MoreThanTV (MTV) - Movies/TV
- Orpheus - Music
- AnimeBytes (AB) - Anime
- Bibliotik (BiB) - eBooks
- TorrentLeech (TL) - General
- Empornium (EMP) - P0rn
B-Tier
- Aither - General
- Alpharatio (AR) - General
- FileList (FL) - General
- IPTorrents (IPT) - General
- MyAnonaMouse (MAM) - eBooks
C-Tier
- Bit-HDTV - Movies/TV
- Nyaa - Anime
I have no idea where in the list it would rank but I've been a longtime user of pornolab.net. I don't know how it compares with other porn trackers because I don't have access to them. I'd love to get access to empornium but I don't know anyone with an invite.
Iptorrents has some porn but I mostly use it for movies and TV shows. Curious why it's considered b-tier because I've had a very good experience there.
Redacted is awesome though, I agree with its s-tier rating. I didn't know anyone with an invite but I was able to get through their interview/application process.
Again I said it's subjective, if people want something changed I'll change it! There's been lots of complaints about IPT over the years of shady stuff going down, people losing their accounts of no reason, them wanting bribes to get back on the site, etc. I'll agree the content is good, but the site itself and staff are not. I could see it being maybe an A tier imo, certainly not S.
Maybe someone else can chime in with what they think of pornolab compared to emp.
Interesting, I've never had any issues with iptorrents so it's good to know what things to keep an eye out for. Thanks for sharing.
FileList seems to be recommended as an easily-accessible private torrent tracker in the same way that TorrentLeech is. In my experience FileList isn't nearly as likely to have a release in contrast to TorrentLeech, but for what it does have many releases seem to be well-seeded. I'd suggest putting it in the B-Tier.
MyAnonaMouse is D-tier. Has very little content, and community-wise, they go for "family friendly" which is weird and uncomfy for what's literally a piracy community?
Some additions:
S-Tier
A-Tier
- RevTT (RTT) - Scene/General
B-Tier
- Cinemageddon (CG) - Movies
- Karagarga (KG) - Movies
C-Tier
- Metal.Iplay (RMT) - Music
- Pedro's (P*) - Music
- Exigo (E*) - Music
- LzTr - Music
D-Tier (Avoid)
- IPTorrents (IPT) - General (why?)
Tier list separated from content type is too abstract thing. If you're metalhead then metal-tracker would be S-tier for you and redacted would be nowhere above B. If you're jazz fan, then tiers would be totally oposite (you won't need metal-tracker at all).
Yea I'm referring less to personal rankings and more of a generalization. Aka how well does the tracker do what it set out to do. If it's a movie tracker, has a huge library of everything you could want, old torrents are still well seeded, the site is well designed, etc, then it's high tier.
For me, red has everything I could want, but it seems in your opinion they are missing stuff. Which could mean in a generalizing sense it could be lower than I rated it which is why I wanted to get other peoples opinion.
Also I'm trying to keep extremely niche trackers off the list as I planned to make another post about them later to add to the megathread like I will this one.
Might be better for the niche tracker list, but I'd put MVGroup as a B-tier documentary tracker. While its releases often seem to be a downgrade in quality from what they should be (720p releases for 1080p documentaries and 1080p releases for 2160p documentaries), what they do have is usually well-seeded and is sometimes the only easily-accessible source for niche documentaries.
