Edit: I had to enable port forwarding. I didn’t realize it was required.

Note: for some reason strikethrough isn’t working (otherwise, I’d apply it to the original question. Also, not sure if I should delete this post now that it is working, or leave it up in case other people have the same issue.

Does anyone know why qbittorrent would be showing 0 seeders if a tracker shows that there are several?

I am using Proton VPN and qbittorrent. The torrent file is from teamos [dot] xyz.

ProtonVPN settings:

  • Split tunneling enabled > Include mode > added app: qbittorrent
  • Connected to the Netherlands (Wireguard UDP)

qbitttorrent settings:

  • Network Interface set to ProtonVPN

Thank you

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    18 hours ago

    Pretty sure that is just a discrepancy between when a site has last checked client announcements from the tracker and when what the tracker currently shows. As of 2025, TPB for example links to 3.2 million torrents. Assuming client announcements were set to an average 1hr interval, that would require TPB to make 76.8 million checks every day for announcement updates.

    So, I could see sites not maintaining accurate seeder/leecher data.