With the soon-to-be passing of The Pirate Bay, I thought it may make sense to look at the alternatives available for torrent tracking. While no one will be able to capture the hearts and minds of the Torrent community like TPB did, there are a number of sites that are worth looking at.
isohunt calls itself the most comprehensive BitTorrent search engine available and points users to stats page (which I don’t know to make of) to make its case. Isohunt has long provided torrents unavailable elsewhere and is a top notch search engine. My experience with the service always found what I was searching for on a consistant basis – from the latest Desktop Ubuntu ISOs to Server and transformation packs. Never let me down.
Again, another site claiming to be largest and most advanced BitTorrent search engine that utilizes private and public trackers. I once ran a search on their service but, for whatever reason, the results always seem to point back to The Pirate Bay trackers. While others will call this their new home, I simply can’t. Good luck to you and your searching!
My favorite tracker site is, by far, is Demonoid. They are a closed community that fosters the growth of the community over trying to obtain countless, and often times useless trackers. If you can get it, you’ll be a happy little guy or gal. Really, I think you can find just about anything there. Not only that, they seed items that are only and specific to the Demonoid community.
1337x is service that does not take adds and marketing into play. They opt for user donations in order to pay for their business model. The concept is you help us, we help you. Haven’t put much research into the search solution thet offfer but it look promising. And they seem to be willing to communicate with others
Honorable mention #1
One of the largest live show trackers known to the the community The music is purely live and its a gift to the community. More like this should exist.
Honorable mention #2
BakaBT Seemingly the best place to go for Anime and Manga. Good group of people and you should have no problem finding your needs.
Finally, something to mention
mininova (aka – Suprnova) was run by The Pirate Bay for the about the last two years. I’ve been unable to find news as to what will happen to mininova after the acquisition.
So, are there aother trackers out that the world should now be cocusing on? Some that I misssed – be if giant trackers or genre specific (music or anime) please let me know.