I'll admit, when I first started torrent I was not really familiar with how it worked and how important seeding was. I would just use magnet links without configuration to save the torrent and seed after completion. Well.. I have finally, got myself back to 1.00 after a couple months and working to try to always seed double what I get for each torrent.

Often times I was one of the few random seeders available for some of these torrents. Friendly reminder to give back because you never know when you're one of the rare cases that can complete someones long lost file download!

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[–] eldereko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 6 days ago (2 children)

pretty proud of my ratio of 6 yrs

[–] VitabytesDev@feddit.nl 1 points 1 day ago

[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I mean have you really only downloaded less than 500gb or is almost everything free seed and doesn't count on your download stats.

Eitherway nice seeding, good job

[–] eldereko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

yeah, I mostly download free seeds and I don't think that adds to the download count, I've definitely downloaded more than 500gb

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[–] ExpertisePredicament@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 6 days ago

Hoping to hit 400 TB uploaded this year :3

[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 23 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

That's the spirit!
My rule of thumb has always been to share to ratio 1.1. Side thought: Maybe there's a funny correlation between birthrates needing to be 2.1 for a stable population, the extra .1 to make up for deaths, and well, the 2 is because it takes two to make a baby.

Anyway, since we're all sharing, these are my stats from 41 days ago when I switched to Nobara.

(Gigabit internet is the biggest luxury I allow myself to splurge on.)

[–] Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You can back up those by copying ~/.local/share/qBittorrent and ~/.config/qBittorrent

[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I did go out of my way to check creation date and modified date on those folders to try and assess whether I had copied the statistics over from my distrohop. Might've been old stats plus new, I'm not too sure. I should really start using cp -a instead of just drag'n'drop in dolphin..

[–] Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I mean, dragging and dropping in dolphin worked for me.. Idk..

[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 2 points 5 days ago

It's just that the original timestamps are lost that way. With cp -a I would've kept the original "created on" date. My memory is so shot I can barely remember what I did last week, let alone 42 days ago, whether I copied over those stats or not..

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[–] drathvedro@lemm.ee 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Ratios are a things of a past. I'm having trouble getting ratios as all of the torrents I have are straight zeros in the upload section. I still keep them around for a while just out of habit, but just to verify it's working I've downloaded some random file with high leech ratio. Got it in fast, but upload is now going at less than 5% the upload capacity. Back in late 00s running torrents would instantly saturate the entirety of my 10mbit connection, and I'd like to think that terabytes I've seeded during that time make up for my abysmal ratios nowadays. But the reality is that there just simply is enough seeders already, and as a result the trackers I frequent to either dropped it entirely or switched to a scoring system based on how much and for how long people store obscure torrents that only few people seed, but I'm too short on drive space to participate in that.

[–] pdqcp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 6 days ago

Way to go, keep it up!

Took me a while to find the stats tab, I didnt know it was available lol

[–] clot27@lemm.ee 16 points 6 days ago

Wow I didnt realize I was this close..

[–] ThunderLegend@sh.itjust.works 12 points 6 days ago

I'm doing my part.png

[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

When I am seeding a torrent with less than 5 seeders I just let it go forever. So far I have about 15 of those. Eventually I’ll have to drop them… but I’ll be there hero until then.

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 3 points 6 days ago

Thank you for your service.

[–] Dumbkid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 days ago

Mines alright seed just long enough to stay afloat

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

"Session waste"?

Me with lemmy on the toilet.

[–] applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 6 days ago

Those are rookie numbers. You need to pump those numbers up.

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 10 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I always lose my seeds because I like to rename my files. Any workarounds?

[–] eatham@aussie.zone 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Change the file name in the torrent client :)

[–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago

This is what I do as well

I change the directory in my client. This moves the download to my preferred location for plex, etc. And it seeds from there instead

[–] samc@feddit.uk 8 points 6 days ago

Keep the files in a dedicated torrents folder then make symlinks to where you actually want them?

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[–] eric@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

My seed ratio is 1.2. I'd seed more, but I download a lot of different things and my home server is limited on space at the moment.

[–] ButtDrugs@lemm.ee 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I get a gig down but only 50mbps up (fucking spectrum), so I gotta limit seeding the same way or I'd just crush my upload speed all the time.

[–] OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago

Spectrum is the shittiest company known to man. Double and triple billing, they bill a month ahead so your paying for service you haven't yet used, horrible speed my as well be false advertising, customer support is terrible. They fraud charged and upsold services to get discounts which was a lock you in contract scam price. All time worst companies ever.

[–] Chastity2323@midwest.social 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm such a leech :( stupid ISP data cap. I'll make it up someday

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

You can always get a seedbox (if you’re able and willing to spend a few bucks a month on a seedbox)

[–] Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 days ago

It's been at the same ratio for the last 3 years.. Never managed to get more..

1000001336

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I just use a Debrid service for my torrents now. Consistent 1Gbps download speeds and no ratios to worry about. It's way better (and cheaper) than a private tracker or a seedbox.

[–] LazerDickMcCheese@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Had any trouble finding obscure stuff?

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[–] Emmie@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I have like 250 KB/s for seeding maybe 250 Kb/s max (min)

I just round it down to 0 kb(B)/s to prevent brain overhead

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