I've never understood private trackers. I have yet to encounter a situation where I can't locate a file on a public tracker.
And a private tracker doesn't allow for VPNs? Sounds like an industry honeypot.
No alt text for our blind brothers and sisters? For shame comrade.
For a long time, I thought the Democrats were fighting valiantly but just overwhelmed by the oligarchy and the Republicans. Then I saw that the Democrats keep losing fights they should win and figured they must be just weak and ineffectual. Then I kept seeing them backing off without putting up a fight at all and decided they were gutless cowards. Finally I noticed that enough of them keep voting with the Republicans to always make sure the Republicans more or less win almost every fight, and that they keep starting from a Center position and bargaining to the Right, and eventually after enough of that it became impossible to ignore the only conclusion that actually fits the facts: The Democrats are not over matched, they aren't weak, they aren't cowards...they're complicit.
They also put little effort into this strategy (if this even was their strategy). Weeks until mods kit was released. No tutorials on how to make easy POIs so less technical creative people could start adding stories etc. Going for the attitude of "we barely thought about mod support for skyrim and it worked out".
Steam also never took it's eye off the piracy ball. Offer up a service better than free piracy.
Just pulling from my memory:
The fumbled big time with support for mods. You'd have a hard time making enough content for just the main game, no way you'd have the resources for more content in the multiple universes.
There should have been a mod framework from the beginning, and a developer tutorial for how to add mods into the multiple universes and Bethesda guidelines on how to make your mod match the Unity system. So characters and faces can change every Unity at a minimum.
And settler system was also a failure. Can't have a living outpost if people can't just show up Fallout 4 style.
It suffers from the (need to be a nerd) barrier. Getting people off Facebook requires the minimum amount of friction possible.
If we're talking friends or family then build and host a mastodon or matrix server. Call it "Tommy's Bistro" friends/family only. Even with all of this effort you're competing against a facebook setting to keep a post restricted to friends/family only.