It's tough to replace rarbg because they posted a lot of "custom" content. They didnt source anything, but they had a lot of auto-upload bots that would rehost content gathered from private torrent trackers.
You can always use sites like torrent galaxy or other torrent aggregators like bitsearch, but without rarbg's efforts to continually reupload the aforementioned "privileged" content, their loss is definitely big
But I'm mostly using TorrentLeech. I have a seedbox with 20TB of bandwidth per month so I have no problem hitting ratio. My *Arr instances use TL first and only use 1337x if it can't find what it is looking for.
There really isn't any alternative to what RARBG offered in terms of search (being able to filter directly on 4K/UHD releases), and the content available (4K DV Web-DLs in MP4 container). And the curation, none of these renamed torrents or homebrewed "upscales". Sad to see it go, and that there's nothing even coming close to what it offered.
Honestly there site was not that great. There releases of x265 was good. But it was all automated. It's not that hard to make a better website, all you need is a good sercure server. The problem is finding someone who can provide that. The rest can be done.
web.stremio.com (for viewing and direct downloads)
YTS.mx (.mp4 only)
Personally, I use a combination of MagnetDL.com and TorrentGalaxy.to… That gets me back to my search routine for everything I usually found on RARBG… TorrentDownload.info and Torlock.com are solid options as well…
Hopefully when all the smoke clears, RARBG will be able to start up again…
Tbh I see everyone bothering with private trackers and I can't stand that this is what it has come to. Torrenting is meant to be open to everyone, and it is a 0-sum game. It is physically impossible for everyone to have above 1 ratio. Policing ratio just means your users who are not able to own a seedbox get kicked out in the name of "they're just leeches" while your users who do enjoy 10-20 ratio for content they don't even intend to watch.
I should specify I'm not mad cuz bad, my overall ratio stands at 2.89 (3 max per torrent). I always seed my torrents because my router is a torrent client, I'm just mad that this is what is necessary to stand a chance in private trackers, which are an abomination to begin with.
I guess this isn't for everyone, but I find my torrents on the DHT. I have a magnetico instance running at night (because believe it or not, NAT tables don't like you opening 2000 sessions per second to a different IP each time), and it crawls the DHT for random torrents. These are guaranteed at least 1 seeder, and since I found them on the DHT I am much more likely to find other seeders on the DHT as well.
Honestly, it's been serving me quite well. I can't share access publicly because take a wild guess at what you find randomly on the DHT, but if there was a realistic way of moderating out that, I would. In the meantime, I highly recommend you get a raspberry pi and install magnetico yourself.
It's only a zero-sum game on trackers that don't enact counterbalancing policies, which most do, so it's braindead easy to keep a good ratio. Usually some combination of freeleech torrents and bonus points for seeding even when nobody's downloading, which can be spent to boost your ratio. I've never owned a seedbox in my life, and my ratio is over 10 on most sites I'm on, even when my "real" ratio is closer to 1 or 2.
rutracker is best public tracker imo. qxr on 1337x is also nice. ipt and tl are decent private general trackers if your having issues with the seeding requirements you could always use ratiomaster software
I finally set up radarr and sonarr (and prowlarr.) Radarr's list feature pulls in new titles to check out. With a bunch of shitty public indexers it manages to find what is being looked for without making me wade through the muck.
TL's seeding requirements really aren't that bad. A lot of people don't realize you don't have to do that seeding 24/7 if you don't rent a seedbox or a have dedicated machine. If you want you can close your client while you use your computer and keep it running when, say, you're at work or asleep. Similarly if you want to turn your computer off overnight or something that's fine too. You'll just get a HnR warning that will clear once you open your client again.
Once you start to rank up your required seed time lowers. It bottoms out at just 4 days if you get to the TL-God user rank.
TorrentLeech's seeding requirements are certainly difficult, but they're still easier than IPTorrents! Try to find FreeLeech stuff to help build your ratio. Ideally you obviously want to find stuff that is in high demand so that others will download from you, but even if you don't, you'll accrue TL points which can be spent on improving your upload ratio once you get enough of them.
Setup with sonarr and radarr. If you use prowlarr you can set it to only check free leech. Helps to boost the ratio. You just have to seed for 10 days after.
Using a seedbox, I consistently get >1.0 ratio on things like The Daily Show so I keep it added to Sonarr even if I'm not watching it. I use an IRC bot to grab the FL torrents when they go up so I can easily get several hundred GB of upload per FL torrent.
My ratio is so good I only have to seed for a few days (not 10 days like when you first start) so I can rake in ratio and then delete the torrent when it stops being profitable. It's mostly automated now, a bot grabs the torrent and qbittorrent's seed limits automatically delete the torrent once it gets to 5 days old. Anything added by Sonarr or Radarr is hard linked into my media directory so deleting the torrent doesn't affect anything added with the *arrs.
It's a good setup, ultra.cc charges something like $35/mo for 8TB storage, unlimited streaming via Jellyfin/Plex, 20TB of upload per month on a 50Gb connection. I highly recommend and there are cheaper packages if you're not sharing with a family or only want the seedbox to grab files so you don't need storage.
People consider IPT hard to maintain ratio? You can literally just save up bonus points and zap and HnR's.. It's also super easy to build ratio as they have a good chunk of freeleech everyday. They have one of the easiest to work with IMO.
I should clarify that my initial reply was somewhat poorly-worded probably because I was tired and shouldn't have been posting on the internet. At the time, I thought the user was complaining about the 10-day seeding requirement and I responded with a reference to IPT because they require 14 days. I've found IPT very easy to maintain a good ratio, and so far, I don't find TorrentLeech to be any harder.
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