What is the best site to search for torrents?

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Just use qBittorrent and integrate Jackett search into it. You can search all your favourite torrent sites within seconds. The best casual setup out there
- Prowlarr is better if you have Sonarr and Radarr set up
- How do you integrate Jakett search, do you have to install Jackett separately?
  
  Yes. Follow the relevant Jackett installation instructions. Set it up as you wish.
  Then configure it to work inside qBittorrent.

Get jackett, add all of the public trackers, plus any other trackers you may be a part of, and just search really.

"Best" is probably going to be private torrent trackers.
But if you meant public torrent indexers then the top ones in terms of web traffic are 1337x, ruTracker, TPB, Rutor, & TorrentGalaxy.
Most people that were using RARBG have ended up at 1337x and TorrentGalaxy.
For what it's worth if you just need a website to search the old RARBG torrents https://rarbg.best might be a good fit.
PS A lot of these sites are also linked at the other torrent site community !torrent_trackers@lemmy.ml

I’ve sometimes found that 1337x torrents show bigger seed leech numbers but don’t really match up when downloading (May be it’s something to do with my vpn setup). I’ve found magnetdl to be more accurate with seed leech numbers
- 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.
  
  Did you mean if there is no port forwarding at my end and also at seeder’s end ?
  
  Could you elaborate? Never heard of this aspect
- if you have TCP only and decentralized peers/peer exchange/local peers turned off in qbittorrent (a good security idea if you're using a VPN to torrent already), you'll get added security at the cost of less peers. Not to say that's for sure what's going on for you, but if you have sane settings for security, it could well be the cause of the discrepancy.
  
  Thanks for the advice. It looks like I already have those settings turned on. Would you recommend I turn them off? I know it's gonna result in even fewer peers, and I haven't had any security issues over the past couple of years while it's been running, but is it something that needs to be done on servers like mine? (I have windscribe that I turn on along with qbittorrent, and when I turn it off, I turn them both off at the same time)
- A lot of torrent sites do not regularly update the seed/peer count on torrents listed there. Or they only do it on some sort of daily/weekly schedule. In other words the older the torrent is the more likely the seed count is going to be wrong.
  I'm not sure about 1337x specifically but you could probably tell by comparing numbers for new torrents vs old torrents listed there.
- I think it's because 1337x updates the seeds count periodically, and sometimes it doesn't get updated for a while

Nyaa.si is good for manga and anime

TG and 1337 are pretty good and have me covered. I also have a copy of the RARBG database that has the hashes that I use if I want to find something from there. Pretty easy to get the magnets from Qbit and then save the magnet back as a .torrent and then check if there are already cached in a debrid service. Pretty easy and simple
- Will you share that raring database or is it easily available elsewhere? First time heading of this!
  
  Help us seed them :) See the earlier posts
  https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/260450
  and
  https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/372879
  
  I think I used this one. I have a few I downloaded from links on reddit around the time RARBG went down and people were trying to find backups
  https://old.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/13yknky/tutorial_keeping_rarbg_alive_how_to_access/

You can just go to https://torrentio.strem.fun/configure and use all their trackers.

btdig dot org is pretty decent.

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