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How does instant.io work? I just "download" from magnet, and the app hangs in there for ages[0]. [0]: https://i.imgur.com/8hdoVEX.png https://i.imgur.com/8hdoV

by smhmd 6y ago

How does instant.io work? I just "download" from magnet, and the app hangs in there for ages[0]. [0]: https://i.imgur.com/8hdoVEX.png https://i.imgur.com/8hdoVEX.png

ravenstine 6y ago
Is the magnet link one you created with Instant.io/WebTorrent, or is it off a torrent site? I'm wondering because of those tracker URLs I can see in the magnet URI. If it's the latter, it's not going to work because the torrent needs to be seeded via WebTorrent(i.e. WebRTC). The desktop version of WebTorrent can download both regular torrents and web torrents because it's not limited to WebRTC for peer connections(whereas a browser is).
- smhmd 6y ago
  OOOH! That makes sense. Yes, it was off of a public tracker. So, this is a P2P file sharing website, then?
  - ravenstine 6y ago
    Yep, exactly.