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-"download-only users" as you're telling them how important it is to seed and give back after taking the resources (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 13 points 3 weeks ago (12 children)

One of the reasons I don't seed back is that I can't - I can't seem to figure out how to configure correctly despite setting all stuff about ports and connections I can on qbt. One of the problem is that, for privacy reasons, I'm obvs not using my own infra but rather hooking into someone else's network, so there's not much really I can change.

And the other reason is that I tend to rename, change and repack most of the stuff I download (series, games, etc) for size and convenience. Especially, I tend to downscale 1K or 2K movies down to 540p or 720p and I tend to rename and reshuffle files across folders, so that pretty much renders the storage as invalid for seeding the same torrent (unless anyone knows a trick I don't).

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  • [–] 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Port forwarding helps connect to peers but it's not strictly necessary.

    As for organization and removing, symbolic links could work but if port forwarding is over your head, filesystem nuances might also not mean much to you.

    My advice would be to focus on what you can do easily. Can you copy the files instead of moving, at least for a few days, or until the seed ratio has passed 1.0 or 2.0? If you can't do it for everything, can you at least do it for the files with lower numbers of seeders?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    As for organization and removing, symbolic links could work but if port forwarding is over your head, filesystem nuances might also not mean much to you.

    I can do symlinks. Works when I can, so I might try keeping the original files one day or two, but that really depends on if the files are even being served (see below), else it's much more important to me to convert the files to a format more suitable for me in terms of all of storage, compatibility, consumption, etc.

    In terms of networking it's less "its over my head" and more "I'm not using my own connection so it's not like I have access to the modem to change things". As much as I have tried different configurations in qbittorrent, torrents rarely seem to seed and when they do it's only for brief periods of time (nowhere near enough to 1:1 it unless you are seeding, like, the Marvel Movie Of The Day).

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago

    I also don't have ports forwarded. You can still connect to some leechers, it just takes longer to reach 1:1 ratio (months).

    Imo for torrents that have hundreds of seeders I wouldn't worry. But for torrents that only have a few seeders, just use symlinks or copy the files, and keep the originals seeding.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    Don't worry about it. Just do what you can.

    Just for reorganization, you could use links instead of actually moving the files. That's how radarr, etc. do it.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    That’s how radarr, etc. do it

    Radarr like the arrs? I used to have a barebones arr setup years ago, should try to get back to something like that.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    The ecosystem is pretty sweet now

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  • [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago

    After you repackaged and renamed and shuffled stuff around, you can create torrents out of those end results and seed them. There is a "create torrent" button in qbittorrent that you can use to create them :). I do the same thing. I'm OCD and like shit to look neat and organized. So I name everything I download. So, I either download and let the seed run for a while before modifying the files, or modify then create torrents and seed them. I try what I can

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