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GitHub/GitLab releases makes it easy, free, and has virtually no overhead to distribute software to millions of users globally. Setting up torrents and making s

• newaccount74 5y ago
  We've had a few users complain that they had issues downloading large files from Github -- either S3 was blocked alltogether (China) or just very slow (Australia). That was a couple of years ago, don't know what the situation is like today. I think offering BT as an alternative would be a good idea, especially for downloads > 100MB.
• nhoughto 5y ago
  Yep came to say the same, because a lot of software is already hosted in a lower friction way by GitHub and similar. So unless you have a need/want to host it yourself and maybe benefit from the optimizations then why bother?
• dagmx 5y ago
  Those aren't necessarily mutually exclusive though. The Git hosts could also provide their releases by seeding them as an option.
• sodality2 5y ago
  You can add the web URL seed to the torrent, pretty cool feature.