@MrMazda:

There are a few things I would recommend for your situation.

1. I strongly recommend that you get a VPN service such as PrivateVPN.

This will not only keep your identity away from copyright trolls, but it will also add a layer of protection to connections coming from your computer, to such a point where even your ISP cannot see what you are doing online. Because of this, you can bypass the throttling mechanisms that your particular ISP puts into place. Most importantly, it will help you avoid getting notices from copyright trolls, which can become rather costly.

I was just passing through the forums, but this is something I've been wondering for a while now, so I figured I'd ask:

Ever since I created my account here, I was under the impression (at least from the rules) that I absolutely should not use a VPN to browse the website, as doing so would make it appear as though I'm sharing my account (due to VPNs recycling IP addresses), which would be grounds for an immediate ban. I still use a VPN for the actual torrenting side of things, though, and that's been perfectly fine for me. But sometimes I might still have a tab for this site open as I connect my VPN, which is enough to give me a mini heart attack as I frantically close the tab, in fear that my browser will send the site a request from the VPN's shared IP address.

So am I right about that? I'm not sure how strict the IP rule is, or if the moderation team has made some extra considerations for VPNs after I joined that I may not have heard of.

Just to let everyone know, I've started my torrent client again and the tracker is working again.

Whatever the issue was, it seems to have been fixed, at least for now.

@Igor83:

Sure thing! This afternoon the server was down and i kept seeding a torrent, even it appearing as a red bar on the client. I'm not sure, but almost, that the amount of data I seeded was not added to my upload credit.
And now, this problem with the tracker!

Hope we get a solution soon.

I can tell you that I was seeding something from around the time this happened, and ~1.3GB upload on my part went unaccounted for on my account. That isn't surprising, since my profile showed me as uploading/downloading 0 torrents, even though I had a few active. I didn't know that when I was seeding, though.

Just to be safe, I've stopped my torrent client for now.

Same here! Glad it's not just me.

This might be because of the server issues from 2 days ago. I'll wait and see if they make an announcement about this. I think it's safe to say the users' torrent clients aren't the issue here.