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Genuine question: why is bittorrent not being used for this?

• bawolff 6y ago
  I imagine because wikimedia has lots of bandwidth (once your website gets to be a certain size, bandwidth gets sold very differently), new versions come out regularly, and there is a relatively small number of people who want every single one of these and keep them around to seed.
  • 91aintprime 6y ago
    It would be interesting intermittent releases supplemented with diffs
• bradleybuda 6y ago
  Because they wanted it to be easy for people to get?
• Darthkoax 6y ago
  It is available as a torrent