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Deluge BitTorrent Client

80 points by memorable 4y ago

kube-system 4y ago
I don’t do much with BitTorrent other than download Linux isos. What’s the advantage to Deluge over Transmission? (which is what I’ve always used since the whole uTorrent controversy)
- Closi 4y ago
  The biggest difference to me is that the UI is different and more closely aligned to uTorrent which IMO is less good looking but a little more practical. Personally I use transmission, but I’m not a heavy torrent user.
- ekianjo 4y ago
  Deluge also has a good Web client.
  - seabrookmx 4y ago
    transmission does as well.
    - ekianjo 4y ago
      Last time I tried Transmission web client was much more limited. Not sure if it changed since then.
- senko 4y ago
  Deluge can work in client-server mode, which is great if you have an always-on home server, but use the client on your laptop. No need to worry if you can suspend your laptop or go away, the torrents will download and/or uninetrrupted. This is also great if you want to seed the iso images and lower your distros' hosting bills, and not just "hit and run" (download and stop).
  - walrus01 4y ago
    Rtorrent on a Linux or bsd cli running inside screen or tmux on a server also works excellently for the purpose of persistently seeding things from a system that isn't your main workstation that hibernates and moves around.
  - edgyquant 4y ago
    Transmission has a web interface and can be ran as a daemon.
    - Fronzie 4y ago
      Transmission also has the client/server model, where the local UI can connect to a transmission running as daemon.
      - senko 4y ago
        Thanks. TIL. Last time I looked (many, many, years ago) I believe Transmission didn't have client-server support. It's good to know they now have that option.
  - artdigital 4y ago
    Transmission can also spin up a server that can be controlled over an API
- madars 4y ago
  Transmission does not support BitTorrent v2 so there is a growing subset of torrents that Transmission can't download but, say, Deluge or qBittorrent can.
- mmarquezs 4y ago
  Plugins, not sure why nobody mentions them so far here but it's the main reason why I haven't switched to anything else. I use: - autoextract plugin to extract files inside the torrents - autoremove plugin to remove torrents after x days, x seed time, with exceptions to trackers, labels etc - LabelPlus improves on top of Deluge label system and adds a lot of different options that you can apply to the torrents with certain label plus you can make sub labels. - RSS plugin with lot of custom filtering with regex etc. - AutoAdd, an improvement over the tipical blackhole/autoadd of torrent files with the possibility to set settings like bandwidth limits, label it, etc based on the folder it was found. Some of that maybe is included in some clients but the main point it's that if I wanted I could implement a plugin myself more or less easily in python to add my needed feature without bothering anybody else. Or I could modify an existing plugin. The other that other people already mentioned is the thin client/ server daemon system, which is 100% better than any web ui because literally you are using the native ui which is the first thing to receive any changes. The web UIs are nice but usually are second priority in general, don't receive all the changes, some settings or features are missing compared with the main ui etc. And in any case Deluge also has a web-ui if needed, which emulates most of the main UI, plugins need to add a custom code for it, and some don't so that is missing but in any case as I said all that is available in the thin client. Also handles a lot of torrents nicely which although I don't have a name I remember having issues with some other torrent clients didn't handle it too good. That said nowadays my number of torrents is around 70~100, I used to have a lot more than that.
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cercatrova 4y ago
qBittorrent is in my experience nice as well. I especially like the feature to download something sequentially, so that you can stream it via a media player, much like how Netflix or Popcorn Time works.
- jszymborski 4y ago
  I've found qBittorrent a bit more performant than Deluge, or at least it felt that way. BiglyBT is also great if you used Azureus back in the day.
- e3bc54b2 4y ago
  qBittorrent is indeed nice. Been using it for many years and couldn't be happier. Demise of uTorrent was a boon for open source clients in a way, otherwise I'd never look for replacement. qBittorrent is also written in Qt, so fits very well with Plasma desktop in general.
roblogic 4y ago
According to the forums it's still fairly average on MacOS. Think I'll stick with Transmission.
- BayAreaEscapee 4y ago
  I agree with this. I use it on both Mac and Windows. The Windows version works pretty well: no major problems. But the Mac version has all kinds of quirks. The most annoying is that somehow it gets into a bad state where it won't even launch, and the only way to fix it is to find its hidden configuration file and delete it.
rvz 4y ago
What is the problem with Transmission and what does Deluge (poor name) do better?
- ryankrage77 4y ago
  >(poor name) Why do you think that? Deluge is a synonym for torrent.
  - em-bee 4y ago
    that's interesting. that word is so rarely used that i didn't make the connection. it's brilliant.
    - eimrine 4y ago
      Even more brilliant that any Russian speaker can realize exactly same without a dictionary, it is just a rare form of делить word which means "to share".
      - em-bee 4y ago
        that seems more like a coincidence. the original meaning of deluge/torrent has no relation to sharing if i understand it correctly. unless someones idea of sharing is burying you in stuff.
- smabie 4y ago
  Back in my private torrent site days when I had to maintain a good ratio I would run deluge on a seedbox and auto download and seed new releases. From my experience deluge was the only client that could saturate a 1gbit/s connection when seeding hundreds of different torrents. However this was a long-time ago so things have probably changed since then. PS: I also think deluge is a great name..
- eimrine 4y ago
  Don't know about Deluge but Transmission client has been banned on some trackers.
6510 4y ago
If you point it at your .torrent folder it will rename all your torrents to their hash value. This might not be what you want (enrage you) Otherwise its cool.
lapser 4y ago
What's really cool about Deluge is that it can run in a client/server mode where the Deluge can act as a thinclient. This way you can set up a server, and install Deluge on all your machines, and have them all connect to the same server. As with many other torrent clients, there is of course also a web ui, as well as various thinclient apps. Having said that, if you don't need a good client/server model, my personal preference is qBittorent, which, for me having grown up with uTorrent, is a lot nicer to use.
- e3bc54b2 4y ago
  qBittorrent has webUI too, and works more or less identical to that of native client. Some day I'll get its NixOS module in abetter shape and just use that.
- em-bee 4y ago
  there is even a mobile client. sometimes when i am outside and i discover something that i want to get like a new linux distribution i want to try, i can then use the mobile client to load it into my server at home so i won't forget to do it later.
pkhamre 4y ago
Is torrents still a thing? Genuinely curious. It looks like a cool piece of software with lots of nice features, but I mean.. I don't need, as far as I know, a client-server stack for downloading stuff.
- bobsmooth 4y ago
  Of course torrents are still a thing...for linux isos. The completely legal sharing of linux isos.
  - pedro2 4y ago
    Don't forget movie trailers :) I think I still have the trailer for the first Harry Potter stored somewhere :')
- hoseja 4y ago
  Uh, why wouldn't they be?
- eimrine 4y ago
  But as a client, you have to pay somewhat for that server. And by the way it is one of coolest pieces of software ever. I wish client-server stack to be dead in favor of all kinds of torrents and blockchains.
- robrtsql 4y ago
  One reason (probably the main reason) to use Deluge, with its client-server stack, is you can run the server on a “seed box” which will allow you to manage your torrents on a server which is always up (and always seeding, when needed) from a client which is not always online (your laptop, for example). This is extremely useful if you are part of a private tracker community where users are required to seed the things that they leech.
- dsissitka 4y ago
  > Is torrents still a thing? Genuinely curious. The Linux ISO crowd has kept Usenet alive. I feel like torrents will be around for a while yet.
HideousKojima 4y ago
Deluge still hasn't had an official Windows release for 2.x, and it's been that way since 2019. Been using qBittorrent for a while now and like it far more than the (currently outdated) version of Deluge I had been using. Not really sure why this was posted here to be honest.
- notRobot 4y ago
  I'm in the same boat as you. Used Deluge for years and was a huge fan, continued to use it for a couple years after the Windows version stopped getting updates, but last year ended up switching to qBitorrent and I'm very happy with it.
  - jschuur 4y ago
    Imagine seeing a link that just says 'David Attenborough' or 'William Shatner'.
- wildmanx 4y ago
  > Deluge still hasn't had an official Windows release for 2.x, and it's been that way since 2019. This is GPL software made by people in their free time, for free. Apparently, the intersection of "people who want a Windows release", "people who have the skill to do it" and "people who want to do it for free" is empty. If you belong to all 3 groups, then please go ahead and provide a Windows release. If you don't then I'm not sure what you are complaining about. That nobody is providing something to you for free that you need?
  - unethical_ban 4y ago
    It's nice to get the old slashdot vibe of "it's open source, any complaint is invalid, learn programming and GUIs and fix it yourself".
    - wildmanx 4y ago
      I'm not saying it's an invalid complaint. But it's not particularly helpful or meaningful. It's not like the maintainers are not aware of the issue. It's just that they've so far had other priorities in life. To keep complaining won't change that. (Well, maybe it will, but that would actually be pretty sad.) It's a different story when some issue is brought up the very first time because somebody wasn't aware who would like to be aware and also willing to do something about it. But to just keep complaining beyond a certain point is just a waste of energy. (Especially for an issue that clearly many people don't care about, including users.) P.S.: I'm not sure why you need to "learn GUIs" for this. This is clearly an issue in the server part of the client/server model that Deluge has. Which is a very nice design choice, if you ask me. Not just for users, but also for developers -- you don't need to have any clue about GUIs to fiddle with the network-related part of the program. EDIT: Sorry, confused this with the parallel subthread about the proxy issue. Yes, for a Windows port you may need to know some GUI aspects.
biglost 4y ago
Ktorrent does the job for me
forlorn 4y ago
Nothing against it but I always wonder what leads to posting a link to a website out of the blue sky. No news, no releases, just a link to a frontpage.
- 27182818284 4y ago
  I'm with you. I was actually expecting a message about it being hacked or something similar to when Transmission had malware added to a version of it.
  - iqkznnft 4y ago
    Transmission had malware? Link?
    - erdeibit 4y ago
      Yes, several times https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-analysis/2016/09/transmission-hijacked-again-to-spread-malware/ https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-analysis/2016/09/transm...
      - iqkznnft 4y ago
        Thanks for that, I'm getting rid of transmission. So sad. Do you wanna suggest a client? I value apps which are light in resources with fast ui
    - 29083011397778 4y ago
      Looks like it was in 2016, and discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11234589 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11234589
- hifikuno 4y ago
  I was just wondering the same thing. Maybe it's to simply bring awareness to those who haven't seen it before?
- LanternLight83 4y ago
RyanShook 4y ago
Can someone explain to me what the benefit of dapps is/will be over BitTorrent?
- manigandham 4y ago
  Bittorrent is reliable peer-to-peer file transfers by chopping up the entire payload into tiny bits that can be shared directly amongst all users. Dapps are decentralized systems to run complex logic (aka smart contracts) without a single point of failure and with whatever consensus mechanism is used by the underlying chain. There is no "benefit" over one or the other because they're completely different things.
Cyph0n 4y ago
Transmission is a much better option imo, mainly because this amazing container exists: https://github.com/haugene/docker-transmission-openvpn https://github.com/haugene/docker-transmission-openvpn Of course, the idea has been used with other clients, but I have yet to find a more complete solution.
andrelaszlo 4y ago
The main reason I switched to Deluge is that it has great support for Socks proxies. Surprisingly, the support is terrible or non-existent in other clients that I tested (Transmission). If you use a proxy that's only available through your VPN, you'll be protected if the VPN connection goes down.
- jacob019 4y ago
  If my wireguard VPN goes down then I lose connectivity. What garbage VPN tech would silently disable on failure?
  - andrelaszlo 4y ago
    That seems to be the default configuration of OpenVPN (Arch) but it's probably my fault.
- madars 4y ago
  Unfortunately downloading over SOCKS proxy also means inability to download from swarms where all peers can't accept an incoming connection, which matters for obscure torrents. I'd suggest running your VPN-only applications in a separate network namespace https://www.wireguard.com/netns/ https://www.wireguard.com/netns/ . This will also prevent, for example, WebRTC or https://www.theregister.com/2015/11/30/port_fail_vpn/ https://www.theregister.com/2015/11/30/port_fail_vpn/ style leaks as the application won't see other interfaces.
  - andrelaszlo 4y ago
    Wow, this looks a bit tricky but super cool. Have to look into it. Thank you for the suggestion!
- bartvk 4y ago
  Are you sure that the proxy is actually used? Deluge has a bug that's open since 10 years or so, and it's about ignoring proxy settings. https://dev.deluge-torrent.org/ticket/2149#comment:43 https://dev.deluge-torrent.org/ticket/2149#comment:43
bartvk 4y ago
In my opinion, nobody (edit: who values their privacy) should use Deluge. There's an issue where proxy settings are ignored: https://dev.deluge-torrent.org/ticket/2149 https://dev.deluge-torrent.org/ticket/2149 It's been open since 10 years, and this is not a great situation for a torrent client. Where torrents are concerned, proxies are explicitly used to protect privacy. Even in this very topic, someone said they were happy with the SOCKS proxy option in Deluge, when this option (edit: possibly) does nothing.
- dewey 4y ago
  > In my opinion, nobody should use Deluge. That's pretty harsh for the client just not supporting one non-essential feature. Many power users of Deluge or other torrent clients run it on seedboxes where a proxy isn't needed and would also negatively impact the speed.
  - bartvk 4y ago
    It's not about whether the client supports one non-essential feature or not. It's about a project that silently ignores a privacy-related setting, which then exposes the fact that people download something.
    - wildmanx 4y ago
      > It's about a project that silently ignores a privacy-related setting, which then exposes the fact that people download something. Which means that everybody who either doesn't use a proxy or does not care whether it's exposed what they are downloading can happily use Deluge. Using the term "nobody" you are exaggerating quite a bit, don't you think? Instead of complaining and demanding that others fix something for you for free who are not affected by it, please consider contributing a fix yourself.
      - Fnoord 4y ago
        You can route a BitTorrent client through a VPN. I do this with Docker + rtorrent + Wireguard. I agree silently ignoring proxy setting is not cool but assuming it is used for privacy reasons is a stretch. I'm glad it avoids people route Deluge data through Tor though that also would not be the sole purpose.
Thorentis 4y ago
qBittorrent (https://www.qbittorrent.org https://www.qbittorrent.org) is far superior. Cross platform, feature rich, actively developed.
- rg111 4y ago
  If anyone torrents now, qBittorrent is a no-brainer. And it is fully free and open-source.
- laurent123456 4y ago
  On macOS qBitorrent is unusable if you hit a certain bug that regularly freezes the whole app. In my case, maybe due to that bug, it was also corrupting the downloaded data (which I didn't think was possible due to integrity checks). I've switched to Transmission and never had any issues with corrupted data or freezes again.
- forgotpwd16 4y ago
  >Cross platform, feature rich, actively developed. So is Deluge.
  - Thorentis 4y ago
    Not all platforms have latest versions being currently developed.
rg111 4y ago
QBittorrent is the best torrent client right now, IMO. Fully open-source and free. Very feature-rich and reliable.
- dewey 4y ago
  Agreed, I also switched from rTorrent -> Deluge -> QBittorrent. It has a surprisingly clean interface and works with a lot of torrents without any issues. Deluge always had load issues pretty quickly, especially after coming from rTorrent.
SLWW 4y ago
Easily one of my favorite clients; a long time fan.
baisq 4y ago
Surprised that nobody has mentioned Tixati. Literally the best and fastest client that there is, albeit a bit too complex.
philonoist 4y ago
Did you know that you can script the behavior of any torrent of any size of any tracker and many privacy features along with extensible plugins - PicoTorrent, BiglyBT and Tixati. They are highly advanced clients even incorporating features of Tribler, https://torrentfreak.com/academic-torrent-client-hopes-to-shake-up-the-entertainment-industry-200110/ https://torrentfreak.com/academic-torrent-client-hopes-to-sh... So only those with a chunk of familiarity should use these, but as always these things entice HN crowd.

80 points by memorable 4y ago

I don’t do much with BitTorrent other than download Linux isos. What’s the advantage to Deluge over Transmission? (which is what I’ve always used since the whole uTorrent controversy)

Closi 4y ago
The biggest difference to me is that the UI is different and more closely aligned to uTorrent which IMO is less good looking but a little more practical. Personally I use transmission, but I’m not a heavy torrent user.
ekianjo 4y ago
Deluge also has a good Web client.
- seabrookmx 4y ago
  transmission does as well.
  - ekianjo 4y ago
    Last time I tried Transmission web client was much more limited. Not sure if it changed since then.
senko 4y ago
Deluge can work in client-server mode, which is great if you have an always-on home server, but use the client on your laptop. No need to worry if you can suspend your laptop or go away, the torrents will download and/or uninetrrupted. This is also great if you want to seed the iso images and lower your distros' hosting bills, and not just "hit and run" (download and stop).
- walrus01 4y ago
  Rtorrent on a Linux or bsd cli running inside screen or tmux on a server also works excellently for the purpose of persistently seeding things from a system that isn't your main workstation that hibernates and moves around.
- edgyquant 4y ago
  Transmission has a web interface and can be ran as a daemon.
  - Fronzie 4y ago
    Transmission also has the client/server model, where the local UI can connect to a transmission running as daemon.
    - senko 4y ago
      Thanks. TIL. Last time I looked (many, many, years ago) I believe Transmission didn't have client-server support. It's good to know they now have that option.
- artdigital 4y ago
  Transmission can also spin up a server that can be controlled over an API
madars 4y ago
Transmission does not support BitTorrent v2 so there is a growing subset of torrents that Transmission can't download but, say, Deluge or qBittorrent can.
mmarquezs 4y ago
Plugins, not sure why nobody mentions them so far here but it's the main reason why I haven't switched to anything else. I use: - autoextract plugin to extract files inside the torrents - autoremove plugin to remove torrents after x days, x seed time, with exceptions to trackers, labels etc - LabelPlus improves on top of Deluge label system and adds a lot of different options that you can apply to the torrents with certain label plus you can make sub labels. - RSS plugin with lot of custom filtering with regex etc. - AutoAdd, an improvement over the tipical blackhole/autoadd of torrent files with the possibility to set settings like bandwidth limits, label it, etc based on the folder it was found. Some of that maybe is included in some clients but the main point it's that if I wanted I could implement a plugin myself more or less easily in python to add my needed feature without bothering anybody else. Or I could modify an existing plugin. The other that other people already mentioned is the thin client/ server daemon system, which is 100% better than any web ui because literally you are using the native ui which is the first thing to receive any changes. The web UIs are nice but usually are second priority in general, don't receive all the changes, some settings or features are missing compared with the main ui etc. And in any case Deluge also has a web-ui if needed, which emulates most of the main UI, plugins need to add a custom code for it, and some don't so that is missing but in any case as I said all that is available in the thin client. Also handles a lot of torrents nicely which although I don't have a name I remember having issues with some other torrent clients didn't handle it too good. That said nowadays my number of torrents is around 70~100, I used to have a lot more than that.
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cercatrova 4y ago

qBittorrent is in my experience nice as well. I especially like the feature to download something sequentially, so that you can stream it via a media player, much like how Netflix or Popcorn Time works.

jszymborski 4y ago
I've found qBittorrent a bit more performant than Deluge, or at least it felt that way. BiglyBT is also great if you used Azureus back in the day.
e3bc54b2 4y ago
qBittorrent is indeed nice. Been using it for many years and couldn't be happier. Demise of uTorrent was a boon for open source clients in a way, otherwise I'd never look for replacement. qBittorrent is also written in Qt, so fits very well with Plasma desktop in general.

roblogic 4y ago

According to the forums it's still fairly average on MacOS. Think I'll stick with Transmission.

BayAreaEscapee 4y ago
I agree with this. I use it on both Mac and Windows. The Windows version works pretty well: no major problems. But the Mac version has all kinds of quirks. The most annoying is that somehow it gets into a bad state where it won't even launch, and the only way to fix it is to find its hidden configuration file and delete it.

rvz 4y ago

What is the problem with Transmission and what does Deluge (poor name) do better?

ryankrage77 4y ago
>(poor name) Why do you think that? Deluge is a synonym for torrent.
- em-bee 4y ago
  that's interesting. that word is so rarely used that i didn't make the connection. it's brilliant.
  - eimrine 4y ago
    Even more brilliant that any Russian speaker can realize exactly same without a dictionary, it is just a rare form of делить word which means "to share".
    - em-bee 4y ago
      that seems more like a coincidence. the original meaning of deluge/torrent has no relation to sharing if i understand it correctly. unless someones idea of sharing is burying you in stuff.
smabie 4y ago
Back in my private torrent site days when I had to maintain a good ratio I would run deluge on a seedbox and auto download and seed new releases. From my experience deluge was the only client that could saturate a 1gbit/s connection when seeding hundreds of different torrents. However this was a long-time ago so things have probably changed since then. PS: I also think deluge is a great name..
eimrine 4y ago
Don't know about Deluge but Transmission client has been banned on some trackers.

6510 4y ago

If you point it at your .torrent folder it will rename all your torrents to their hash value. This might not be what you want (enrage you) Otherwise its cool.

lapser 4y ago

What's really cool about Deluge is that it can run in a client/server mode where the Deluge can act as a thinclient. This way you can set up a server, and install Deluge on all your machines, and have them all connect to the same server. As with many other torrent clients, there is of course also a web ui, as well as various thinclient apps. Having said that, if you don't need a good client/server model, my personal preference is qBittorent, which, for me having grown up with uTorrent, is a lot nicer to use.

e3bc54b2 4y ago
qBittorrent has webUI too, and works more or less identical to that of native client. Some day I'll get its NixOS module in abetter shape and just use that.
em-bee 4y ago
there is even a mobile client. sometimes when i am outside and i discover something that i want to get like a new linux distribution i want to try, i can then use the mobile client to load it into my server at home so i won't forget to do it later.

pkhamre 4y ago

Is torrents still a thing? Genuinely curious. It looks like a cool piece of software with lots of nice features, but I mean.. I don't need, as far as I know, a client-server stack for downloading stuff.

bobsmooth 4y ago
Of course torrents are still a thing...for linux isos. The completely legal sharing of linux isos.
- pedro2 4y ago
  Don't forget movie trailers :) I think I still have the trailer for the first Harry Potter stored somewhere :')
hoseja 4y ago
Uh, why wouldn't they be?
eimrine 4y ago
But as a client, you have to pay somewhat for that server. And by the way it is one of coolest pieces of software ever. I wish client-server stack to be dead in favor of all kinds of torrents and blockchains.
robrtsql 4y ago
One reason (probably the main reason) to use Deluge, with its client-server stack, is you can run the server on a “seed box” which will allow you to manage your torrents on a server which is always up (and always seeding, when needed) from a client which is not always online (your laptop, for example). This is extremely useful if you are part of a private tracker community where users are required to seed the things that they leech.
dsissitka 4y ago
> Is torrents still a thing? Genuinely curious. The Linux ISO crowd has kept Usenet alive. I feel like torrents will be around for a while yet.

HideousKojima 4y ago

Deluge still hasn't had an official Windows release for 2.x, and it's been that way since 2019. Been using qBittorrent for a while now and like it far more than the (currently outdated) version of Deluge I had been using. Not really sure why this was posted here to be honest.

notRobot 4y ago
I'm in the same boat as you. Used Deluge for years and was a huge fan, continued to use it for a couple years after the Windows version stopped getting updates, but last year ended up switching to qBitorrent and I'm very happy with it.
- jschuur 4y ago
  Imagine seeing a link that just says 'David Attenborough' or 'William Shatner'.
wildmanx 4y ago
> Deluge still hasn't had an official Windows release for 2.x, and it's been that way since 2019. This is GPL software made by people in their free time, for free. Apparently, the intersection of "people who want a Windows release", "people who have the skill to do it" and "people who want to do it for free" is empty. If you belong to all 3 groups, then please go ahead and provide a Windows release. If you don't then I'm not sure what you are complaining about. That nobody is providing something to you for free that you need?
- unethical_ban 4y ago
  It's nice to get the old slashdot vibe of "it's open source, any complaint is invalid, learn programming and GUIs and fix it yourself".
  - wildmanx 4y ago
    I'm not saying it's an invalid complaint. But it's not particularly helpful or meaningful. It's not like the maintainers are not aware of the issue. It's just that they've so far had other priorities in life. To keep complaining won't change that. (Well, maybe it will, but that would actually be pretty sad.) It's a different story when some issue is brought up the very first time because somebody wasn't aware who would like to be aware and also willing to do something about it. But to just keep complaining beyond a certain point is just a waste of energy. (Especially for an issue that clearly many people don't care about, including users.) P.S.: I'm not sure why you need to "learn GUIs" for this. This is clearly an issue in the server part of the client/server model that Deluge has. Which is a very nice design choice, if you ask me. Not just for users, but also for developers -- you don't need to have any clue about GUIs to fiddle with the network-related part of the program. EDIT: Sorry, confused this with the parallel subthread about the proxy issue. Yes, for a Windows port you may need to know some GUI aspects.

biglost 4y ago

Ktorrent does the job for me

forlorn 4y ago

Nothing against it but I always wonder what leads to posting a link to a website out of the blue sky. No news, no releases, just a link to a frontpage.

27182818284 4y ago
I'm with you. I was actually expecting a message about it being hacked or something similar to when Transmission had malware added to a version of it.
- iqkznnft 4y ago
  Transmission had malware? Link?
  - erdeibit 4y ago
    Yes, several times https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-analysis/2016/09/transmission-hijacked-again-to-spread-malware/ https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-analysis/2016/09/transm...
    - iqkznnft 4y ago
      Thanks for that, I'm getting rid of transmission. So sad. Do you wanna suggest a client? I value apps which are light in resources with fast ui
  - 29083011397778 4y ago
    Looks like it was in 2016, and discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11234589 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11234589
hifikuno 4y ago
I was just wondering the same thing. Maybe it's to simply bring awareness to those who haven't seen it before?
LanternLight83 4y ago

RyanShook 4y ago

Can someone explain to me what the benefit of dapps is/will be over BitTorrent?

manigandham 4y ago
Bittorrent is reliable peer-to-peer file transfers by chopping up the entire payload into tiny bits that can be shared directly amongst all users. Dapps are decentralized systems to run complex logic (aka smart contracts) without a single point of failure and with whatever consensus mechanism is used by the underlying chain. There is no "benefit" over one or the other because they're completely different things.

Cyph0n 4y ago

Transmission is a much better option imo, mainly because this amazing container exists: https://github.com/haugene/docker-transmission-openvpn https://github.com/haugene/docker-transmission-openvpn Of course, the idea has been used with other clients, but I have yet to find a more complete solution.

andrelaszlo 4y ago

The main reason I switched to Deluge is that it has great support for Socks proxies. Surprisingly, the support is terrible or non-existent in other clients that I tested (Transmission). If you use a proxy that's only available through your VPN, you'll be protected if the VPN connection goes down.

jacob019 4y ago
If my wireguard VPN goes down then I lose connectivity. What garbage VPN tech would silently disable on failure?
- andrelaszlo 4y ago
  That seems to be the default configuration of OpenVPN (Arch) but it's probably my fault.
madars 4y ago
Unfortunately downloading over SOCKS proxy also means inability to download from swarms where all peers can't accept an incoming connection, which matters for obscure torrents. I'd suggest running your VPN-only applications in a separate network namespace https://www.wireguard.com/netns/ https://www.wireguard.com/netns/ . This will also prevent, for example, WebRTC or https://www.theregister.com/2015/11/30/port_fail_vpn/ https://www.theregister.com/2015/11/30/port_fail_vpn/ style leaks as the application won't see other interfaces.
- andrelaszlo 4y ago
  Wow, this looks a bit tricky but super cool. Have to look into it. Thank you for the suggestion!
bartvk 4y ago
Are you sure that the proxy is actually used? Deluge has a bug that's open since 10 years or so, and it's about ignoring proxy settings. https://dev.deluge-torrent.org/ticket/2149#comment:43 https://dev.deluge-torrent.org/ticket/2149#comment:43

bartvk 4y ago

In my opinion, nobody (edit: who values their privacy) should use Deluge. There's an issue where proxy settings are ignored: https://dev.deluge-torrent.org/ticket/2149 https://dev.deluge-torrent.org/ticket/2149 It's been open since 10 years, and this is not a great situation for a torrent client. Where torrents are concerned, proxies are explicitly used to protect privacy. Even in this very topic, someone said they were happy with the SOCKS proxy option in Deluge, when this option (edit: possibly) does nothing.

dewey 4y ago
> In my opinion, nobody should use Deluge. That's pretty harsh for the client just not supporting one non-essential feature. Many power users of Deluge or other torrent clients run it on seedboxes where a proxy isn't needed and would also negatively impact the speed.
- bartvk 4y ago
  It's not about whether the client supports one non-essential feature or not. It's about a project that silently ignores a privacy-related setting, which then exposes the fact that people download something.
  - wildmanx 4y ago
    > It's about a project that silently ignores a privacy-related setting, which then exposes the fact that people download something. Which means that everybody who either doesn't use a proxy or does not care whether it's exposed what they are downloading can happily use Deluge. Using the term "nobody" you are exaggerating quite a bit, don't you think? Instead of complaining and demanding that others fix something for you for free who are not affected by it, please consider contributing a fix yourself.
    - Fnoord 4y ago
      You can route a BitTorrent client through a VPN. I do this with Docker + rtorrent + Wireguard. I agree silently ignoring proxy setting is not cool but assuming it is used for privacy reasons is a stretch. I'm glad it avoids people route Deluge data through Tor though that also would not be the sole purpose.

Thorentis 4y ago

qBittorrent (https://www.qbittorrent.org https://www.qbittorrent.org) is far superior. Cross platform, feature rich, actively developed.

rg111 4y ago
If anyone torrents now, qBittorrent is a no-brainer. And it is fully free and open-source.
laurent123456 4y ago
On macOS qBitorrent is unusable if you hit a certain bug that regularly freezes the whole app. In my case, maybe due to that bug, it was also corrupting the downloaded data (which I didn't think was possible due to integrity checks). I've switched to Transmission and never had any issues with corrupted data or freezes again.
forgotpwd16 4y ago
>Cross platform, feature rich, actively developed. So is Deluge.
- Thorentis 4y ago
  Not all platforms have latest versions being currently developed.

rg111 4y ago

QBittorrent is the best torrent client right now, IMO. Fully open-source and free. Very feature-rich and reliable.

dewey 4y ago
Agreed, I also switched from rTorrent -> Deluge -> QBittorrent. It has a surprisingly clean interface and works with a lot of torrents without any issues. Deluge always had load issues pretty quickly, especially after coming from rTorrent.

SLWW 4y ago

Easily one of my favorite clients; a long time fan.

baisq 4y ago

Surprised that nobody has mentioned Tixati. Literally the best and fastest client that there is, albeit a bit too complex.

philonoist 4y ago

Did you know that you can script the behavior of any torrent of any size of any tracker and many privacy features along with extensible plugins - PicoTorrent, BiglyBT and Tixati. They are highly advanced clients even incorporating features of Tribler, https://torrentfreak.com/academic-torrent-client-hopes-to-shake-up-the-entertainment-industry-200110/ https://torrentfreak.com/academic-torrent-client-hopes-to-sh... So only those with a chunk of familiarity should use these, but as always these things entice HN crowd.