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Contribution, tracker standing, and getting started.
Contribution
NorthBits stays healthy when members seed and keep standing honest. Below is how ratio, bonus points, and invites work on this site — rates below match the live tracker and ledger.
Ratio
Ratio is uploaded bytes ÷ downloaded bytes from tracker announces. With no traffic yet it shows as 0; with upload but no download it shows as ∞. The site may set a minimum; if you fall below it, new .torrent downloads pause until you recover. Seeding stays open. There is no countdown theatre — just clear access rules.
Seeding
Seed after you download so the swarm stays available. Keep your client announce URL and passkey current under Settings → Tracker. Upload credit, lifetime seed time on your profile, and seeding bonus all come from real announce heartbeats — not screenshots or estimates.
Bonus points
Bonus points are a site ledger on your standing strip. Seeding earns 1 point per hour per torrent while your client announces with left = 0 (credited on each heartbeat, capped at the peer-timeout window so long gaps are not farmed). The same capped intervals add to lifetime seed time on your profile. Points also move through request bounties and can buy invites when that shop is enabled. Live balance and invite cost appear in Settings; open Bonus history for recent ledger rows.
Invites
Create invite codes in Settings → Invites when you may, or purchase a single-use code with bonus points if purchase is enabled. Do not share codes publicly.
Use ⌘K or / for quick navigation anywhere.
Torrents live under Browse — filters are saved in the URL query string.
Upload torrents under Upload — staff review may apply before they appear in the catalog.
Tracker passkey and announce URL are under Settings → Tracker.
Post and claim bounties under Requests — fulfill with an upload or owned torrent.
See something wrong? Use Content report to flag torrents, posts, or users.
Rights holders can file a copyright notice without an account via Copyright.
How this instance processes personal data is summarized under Privacy — settings toggles live under Settings → Privacy.
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