Uploading in TPB, Limitations and how to avoid your torrents being rejected.

[wanderer]

As we know our beloved website has a few limitations when it comes to uploading torrents.
Here is a guideline in avoiding white screens when it comes to those.

Size of the torrent.
Try to keep your torrents under 200 k/bs .While torrents bigger than that can be accepted you need to find TPB in a relaxed day in terms of traffic. (Highly unlikely if you ask me.)
Before we go into detail on which piece size to use, and how choosing the proper one will affect your torrent, it's important to understand what a piece size is. A piece size is essentially a section of the torrent. Sizes, when your using a torrent creator, range from 32KB to 32MB depending from your client, and you can choose how big the piece size is. Torrents are divided into pieces for two reason, to allow small pieces of the file to be verified against multiple peers quickly, and to aid in downloading certain parts of the torrent with ease.

The smaller the piece size. the more pieces it will contain, and the larger the .torrent file will be. This also means that more bandwidth will be used transferring them, although this is a relatively small amount. The content is unaffected, what changes is the .torrent file. For example, if you have a 100GB torrent you shouldn't use the same piece size as a 5GB torrent.

Under 50MB -> 32KiB piece size
50-150MB -> 64KB piece size
150-350MB -> 128 KB piece size
350-500MB -> 256KB piece size
500MB-1GB -> 512KB piece size
1-10GB -> 1MB piece size
10-20GB -> 2MB piece size
20-50GB -> 4MB piece size
50-200GB -> 8MB piece size
Over 200GB -> 16MB piece size

Number of files in torrent
The number of files that are generally accepted in The Pirate Bay is approximately 1000.Try to keep your torrents files below that number.If you have to create a torrent that has more files then there is no other way than to rar your files. Again this is no Bible as i said above torrents that have bigger numbers of files can be accepted but the odds of that are very slim as i explained above.

Number of characters in torrent description
Not really sure about this one. There used to be a post that said how many characters you should use in order to get your torrent uploaded. But if you are getting a white screen,your description is rather big and all of the above are in the acceptable range then it should be cut down by trial and error process until the torrent is uploaded.

Getting an "Error: Filename error when trying to upload"
"Error: Filename error" means that the torrent you're trying to upload contains a file type that is not accepted into the category you selected.
You can get more help about this here:
https://pirates-forum.org/showthread.php?tid=10

[SeventhSon]

After doing some experiment on the above tutorial i would say that unless something has changed from the time that was written then all of the above must co-exist to make it true.
Meaning that if you create a torrent that has only one file its not that important how many pieces or kb is your torrent.
This tutorial is more useful to people who have a lot of data that want to share at once and how to make it more efficient.
After uploading a few torrents i also noticed that big torrents are not that great as they easily perish within the users. An inexperienced user is highly unlikely to know how to search within the torrents contents.

[Q91]

I also want to point out that there is no technical limit on how many files can be in a torrent file to be uploaded to TPB (other than maybe a limit in BitTorrent itself). Many files, aswell as long file names will bloat the .torrent file in the same way having a low piece size will.

It might not be visible on many systems, but a file's name does take up space aswell