I don't have direct answer to the question, but I generally don't add public trackers to my (public) torrents. DHT/PEX usually works fine for me for finding seeds on the occasion that I do need something from public torrent sites.

I wonder whether adding additional trackers only increases the speed in which peers are found or whether it also substantially increases the likelihood of finding peers.

[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I wonder whether adding additional trackers only increases the speed in which peers are found or whether it also substantially increases the likelihood of finding peers.

One begets the other, although your mileage may vary

[–] Xanza@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago

Whatever shows up here: https://newtrackon.com/list

Only lists trackers submitted that are online with a 95% uptime.

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago

honestly... I don't know what a tracker is, I just click the magnet button and qBitTorrent just downloads it
Is there something more I should be doing?

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

I don't do that anymore. I just use a Debrid service and enjoy consistent 1Gbps download speeds.

[–] riimoh@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What is the point of adding other public tracker? Is it to cross seed? Or just higher probability to connect to a peer?

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

The second one mainly.

[–] eatham@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago

I add a bunch I copypasted from a list somewhere

[–] dumblederp@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago

Doot for later

[–] lud@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's a waste of time. The torrent already comes included with the needed trackers.

[–] three@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I disagree. There have been many times I've been able to find at least one peer for torrents that otherwise would never complete. Besides, how much time is copy and pasting really wasting?

[–] lud@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you are gonna do that you might as well change your torrent client settings to automatically include the extra trackers.

[–] three@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh, good idea, then there wouldn't be any time wasted ;)

[–] lud@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just don't do it if you use any private trackers.

I'm fairly certain that you could get banned if you put public trackers on a torrent from a private tracker.

[–] three@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

Private trackers generally will flag their torrents as private, allowing only their tracker to connect. But yes, better safe than sorry.