• driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
    4·
    1 day ago

    I had a Torrent sit for years at 99.5%. Then one day I checked it again and I had a ratio of like 10 on it. At some moment that 0.5% got online I completed the torrent and because I had forgotten about it, I was the only 100% seeding for months. It was a Norwegian movie about some guys lost after a snow storm. Pretty good but can’t remember the name now.

    • Gormadt@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      1·
      19 minutes ago

      Seeding those obscure pieces of media to hella high ratios is always nice, sometimes you’ve just gotta find an old piece of media and that 1 seeder whose been seeding it for 10 years is like a breathe of fresh air

  • SCmSTREnglish
    16·
    2 days ago

    There needs to be a holiday or a month where everybody seeds old shit every year or every few years.

    There’s A ton of old stuff that I’m waiting on. Old fansub anime that was super popular but isn’t anymore because it’s licensed on streaming or official blurays came out, but has karaoke and translators notes and is the same stuff I watched growing up. It’s all but lost media at this point because everybody that archived it has it on offline hdds and probably doesn’t expect anybody to want it.

    So if there was a known sharing period for obscure old torrents to be reseeded, that would be awesome. That way, people could check in for a week or a month every year. It would be like torrent Christmas. Lostormas.

    • CassaEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      Have you tried finding the .ass file? I know lots of old fansubs groups shared those. Might be a bit easier to find, hell maybe even on archived versions of their websites 🤔

      • SCmSTREnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        But not all of them, especially on the ones I want, which specifically didn’t release ass files because the visual stuff was really hard to do softsubs and so hardsubbed everything. But also, that’s a good idea, where available.

      • strawberry_enjoyer42English
        3·
        1 day ago

        I hope to someday achieve a ratio as magnificent as yours.

        Thank you for your service o7

        • Gormadt@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
          2·
          12 hours ago

          Don’t let your dreams just be dreams!

          Setup a seedbox to chill in the corner and you too can achieve a magnificent ratio!

          • strawberry_enjoyer42English
            2·
            41 minutes ago

            I have a decent amount of things I’d like to seed 24/7, I just need to take some time learn how to go about it.

            • Gormadt@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
              1·
              21 minutes ago

              My first seedbox was literally an old office PC (that I got from an electronics recycler) with a chonky HDD in it running Ubuntu and sharing it’s drive on my network. Was it ideal? Hell no lol I literally had an old 10inch LCD screen, keyboard, and mouse that I had to leave hooked up to it as I couldn’t figure out out how to dial into it remotely.

              I learned a lot since then but NGL the old setup was so simple I miss it sometimes lol

    • fushuan@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

      I seed until the ratio is 1.2 or two weeks. I’d seed for indefinite but my NAS has 250GB and ssd prices are through the roof, so I need space. My ratio is over 1 so I don’t feel too guilty about it.

    • Brem@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      2 days ago

      Months are but neatly stacked piles of days in the chaos of years, the place decades gather on centuries like dust on a millennium.

    • Gormadt@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      10·
      2 days ago

      I was literally gonna give it this weekend as a last hold out before giving up, but now that it’s finished I’m gonna leave it on my seedbox until the seedbox dies.

    • Derme@feddit.orgEnglish
      8·
      2 days ago

      As a Usenet user this meme hit me like a nostalgia wave from 15 years ago