My advice: Lurk on r/opensignups and similar tracker sharing pages (Either users are sharing the info and it's fine with the mods of the tracker, or the mods don't carr but you wont be banned).

For usenet there are some public ones you can sign up with.
Some usually open during specific times or events.

But I'll talk about 1 (and break the rule): TorrentLeech usually opens during the usual holidays like Eastern, Summerbreak, Halloween/Thanksgiving/BF, Christmas.
As for public trackers, I use 1337x and nyaa. Others arent as reliable or fail to find content I want.

[–] plankton@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Understandable

Right now I'm using public trackers only, but I appreciate the tips. I've heard good stuff about TorrentLeech

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

Very good uploads. Keep an eye open :)

If you are impatient, you can use their sign up promo to join immediately.
But only use money you can loose.

[–] tuff_wizard@aussie.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What kind of errors? Usually issues are to do with incorrect quality profiles and custom formats.

If you don’t understand those then just follow the trash guides to the letter to start with.

To answer your actual question I use use the basics. Eztv, 1337, therarbg and kickass torrents. I rarely have any problems downloading mainstream stuff.

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Just to clarify here, @tuff_wizard@aussie.zone means TRaSH Guides not that the guides are trash.

I have to concur by the way, aside from a handful Hungarian private trackers, I too use pretty much the same public trackers (with a few added from Prowlarr's built in list for specific subtopics).

[–] tuff_wizard@aussie.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yes good clarification, TRaSH is almost synonymous with *arr in my head, but there is a chance someone got to this point without running into them.

[–] GeekFTW@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

I have prowlarr set up with all of the available public trackers that it has built in capabilities for, and have sonarr/radarr set up to use prowlarr.

Only things I get errors for (at least that I'm noticing) is if I forget to have FlareSolverr on for some of em.