A lot of people struggle with figuring out how to get into private trackers since the only way to get into them is to be in a different tracker. Their intentional secrecy with their invite forums also doesn’t help. So I decided to make a guide to explain the process to you.
The best way to climb the ranks is with power user invite forums. Some trackers have them. They may require your account to be a certain age or have a specific amount of upload credit, snatches or uploads. Once you reach those requirements you can join a forum where different trackers advertise themselves and if you meet the requirements you message a recruiter and wait to get in.
Climbing the latter is joining one of these trackers, meeting the requirements to get into the invite forums there, joining another tracker that you either want to be in or that will get you into trackers that you want to be in, then rinse and repeat. You can see the invite forums and requirements for these trackers on r/trackersinfo so you can plan out how you want to get into them.
With no prior experience you can get into trackers with either interviews or open signups. MyAnonamouse (MAM), Orpheus (OPS), and REDacted (RED) all have invite forums and are sites you can get into with an interview. The interview on MAM is dead simple if you know how to read. OPS and RED require more technical skills and you have to actually study for it. If you try cheating they’ll cancel the interview and ask you to admit to it. If you lie you’re never getting into that tracker. You can get into OPS from MAM so you can skip their interview. You can get into RED from OPS too.
Aither, AlphaRatio, AvistaZ, and LST.gg all have open signups from time to time and can get you into other trackers. So look out for those and join them if you can on r/TrackerSignups or the OpenSignups telegram.
The sites out of all of these trackers with the best invite forums are RED, OPS, AlphaRatio, MAM, Aither, LST.gg, and AvistaZ in that order, in terms of the quality of the trackers in the invite forums and your ability to get into better trackers from the ones you can join there.
RED and OPS both require uploads to meet their requirements. Also because of the tough economies and small size of files it can be very difficult to make the requirements without paying for a super fast seedbox, paying to fill requests, uploading a bunch of 2023 FLACs that aren’t already on the site, or spending several months with constant downloads and long term seeding.
Aither and LST.gg both require an absolutely insane amount of upload. Aither requires 10 TB and LST requires 25 TB. So unless you’re downloading and permaseeding a massive amount of torrents with either a seedbox or very good upload speeds, that will take you several years to get to. AlphaRatio requires 3.2 TB which is a lot but doable. However they typically open for signups for only a couple of hours and there’s no guarantee they’ll open again.
MAM is easy like I mentioned, all you have to do is read the rules and do an interview. The interview is more of a chat and isn’t very hard at all. You only need 25GB to get to Power User there which is super easy cause they’re very generous with bonus points. However, with MAM you can’t get into any good trackers from it directly. Only trackers that can get you into other places like Aither and OPS. It’s really up to you which of these are the best. It depends on how much you download and which torrents you actually use.
So is this even worth it? Only if you watch a lot of shows or movies that you can’t get on public trackers or lower rung private trackers that are easy to get into like TorrentLeech, NBL, Aither or LST.gg. You can request content on these trackers too so if you have the odd show or movie you can’t find, try requesting it and see if someone else can find it for you. It’s also worth it if you like high quality content and struggle to get that without higher rung trackers. Otherwise, if most of the content you watch is newer and well seeded, then there’s no real need to do this and it’ll be a massive waste of time.
If you’re someone like me who just wants to have all their shows download automatically without resorting to 480p or scouring the deepest depths of DHT for a torrent with at least 1 seed, then yes it’s worth it. Though if you do end up doing this, pay it forward and upload some of the files from PTs publicly so more people don’t have to do all this bs just to watch the content they like.