Private trackers are communities. They work because people contribute, interact, etc all within a set of rules and expectations of behavior (don't start fights, seed, follow H&R rules, don't be inactive too long, etc).

I won't lie, a lot of the good ones are only open for 24-48 hours unfortunately and there's the additional fact that sometimes people don't post them being open on reddit until there's a day left

TL on the other hand is often open for nearly a week (it's based on available slots they open up in their case and it usually takes more than 72 hours to fill). So you don't necessarily have to check every day if it's just them you want in.

TL usually has the fact they're open on the right side of their home page in the news section with a code you paste so you can just check them directly. (Many other trackers don't put any big signs that they're open out, sometimes even not telling their userbase)

Once you see an opening you need to be ready. Have your special email set-up for this (one not used for anything connected to your real identity) and sign up as soon as you can.

Beware of charge for entry trackers. There are scammy trackers that are of bad repute, low or no quality that you don't want to pay, places set up just to get people who are willing to pay for a private tracker and which will ban you or extort you for more money forever to stay a member. The only reputable ones I know of that offer direct pay to get in are HD-Torrents and IPTorrents (though they're only barely reputable, not that good and in the past have done malicious things using user pw/emails to harass other sites).

TL doesn't directly offer joining for money, rather it has a promo where you pay a partner (who pays them) for a seedbox and it gets you an invite code. A number of sites like the 'az sites (cinemaz, aviztaz, etc) also have a similar offer. This is actually not a horrible way to go IF YOU'RE INTENT ON PAYING ANYWAYS as you want to stock up on ratio if you can and a seedbox will allow you to do so efficiently. Beware though you'll likely be given the boot more quickly than someone who signs up through open sign-ups or recruitment threads so be sure to build ratio and participate early on after dropping the seedbox sub.

I'd recommend skimming this page: https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/Piracy/wiki/guides/private_trackers

And these are also decent resources:

• https://fmhy.pages.dev/torrenting#private-trackers
• https://shakil-shahadat.github.io/awesome-piracy/#trackers
• https://hdvinnie.github.io/Private-Trackers-Spreadsheet/