I got to do some pretty cool things, I lived out of pos in worm hole space with a close nit group during the first year of them, I flew with Rooks and Kings and Pandemic Legion.
But I wish I stopped then. I came back a few years later and that was so depressing.
Yes, to communicate at least one peer needs to be port forwarded.
If you don’t have port forwarding and the seeder doesn’t then you won’t see them.
A lot of casual torrent users won’t know about this so it’s a common issue on public trackers.
Bandwidth to storage is going to become more and more important so I’m not keen on that.
I do feel for those who were enjoying a peaceful place until us rabble turned up needing to go through the stages of grief.
I’m very grateful for it existing.