Wondering about tracker URL's

[rick92]

Hi, I had the same problem mentioned by VonRicht, on a thread called "Tracker Scrape", in which he stated that after a TPB downtime, his torrents were displaying S/L in a different way, it happened with me too (after the second time TPB went down for a whole day after it's comeback this year), my torrents display the same numbers on my client on other pages, like 1337x, KAT, etc, but they don't on TPB, I didn't care, but yesterday I was wondering what was happening, so I found that the difference between my torrents and others, is that the list of trackers I include look like this:

udp://tracker.istole.it:80/announce

udp://tracker.istole.it:6969/announce

udp://tracker.istole.it:80/announce
udp://tracker.istole.it:6969/announce

udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80/announce
udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:6969/announce

udp://tracker.publicbt.com:80/announce
udp://tracker.publicbt.com:6969/announce

udp://open.demonii.com:1337/announce

And torrents from other uploaders, that display the actual "correct" numbers on the client, look like this:

udp://tracker.istole.it:6969


udp://tracker.istole.it:80

udp://tracker.coppersurfer.tk:6969

udp://exodus.desync.com:6969

udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80
udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:6969

udp://tracker.publicbt.com:80
udp://tracker.publicbt.com:6969

udp://tracker.leechers-paradise.org:6969

udp://open.demonii.com:1337

All my torrents have that /announce at the end, and I also found working torrents like this (it has the /announce too) https://thepiratebay.se/torrent/8769512/..._THORA.mkv it displays only 2 Seeds / 0 Leechers on TPB, but I downloaded it and it looks like this:



So, I found that "correlation", torrents without "/announce" scrape OK, but the others stopped doing so, is there a way I can delete the "/announce" from my torrents udp url's? or a possible chance that the url's with it will scrape ok again? Thank you so much for reading this, and keeping the ship afloat.

[Hary1946]

/announce was a convention when announcing via http, it never applied to udp trackers. In most cases it will do no harm to either exclude it when connecting via http, or include it when connecting via udp. The trackers should and in most cases will be configured to assume the former and ignore the latter.

But it certainly won't hurt to do things properly. You can't edit the trackers in the torrents you have already uploaded (or prevent TPB from adding/replacing any tracker entries with whatever they consider appropriate even if they're wrong), but you can be sure to included the proper addresses in torrents you create from now on.