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The webtorrent app. There has been some talks about implementing it in libtorrent but no one seemed to be willing to make the effort and maintain it.

• thefounder 7y ago
  Webtorrent is not very performant. They are still waiting for changes to WebRTC for it to match bittorrent in terms of performance/resource usage.
  • BubRoss 7y ago
    What changes does it need?
    • thefounder 7y ago
      You may browse the github issues. Both ipfs and webtorrent have the same core issues: Below are some examples https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent/issues/1721 https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent/issues/1721 https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent/issues/903 https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent/issues/903 https://github.com/webtorrent/bittorrent-tracker/issues/199 https://github.com/webtorrent/bittorrent-tracker/issues/199