In Browse and Search displays, the number of seeders on a torrent is sometimes bright red or dark red, sometimes black. Why? Does red mean that the seeder is firewalled?
No, it’s something else, not related to being firewalled. The lower the seeder-to-leecher ratio (SLR) is, and therefore the more weakly the torrent is seeded, the brighter a shade of red EzTorrent uses to display the seeder count on a Browse display or in Search results. This helps you spot which torrents are more strongly seeded (the number is darker red or even black) without having to do the arithmetic in your head. But also look at the Snatched count: if the torrent has not been snatched and there’s one seeder, that means only that it’s a new torrent, not fully seeded yet, and there usually can’t be more than one seeder. A brighter shade of red means more leechers and more activity and more people passing around the pieces that the uploader has already given out. So, generally, for a torrent that’s been snatched, the blacker the better (or the larger the total swarm, the better); for one that hasn’t been snatched yet, the redder the better.
