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I feel like the people still using TPB also use uTorrent. Both are good examples of the lasting power brand recognition can have.
by doublepg23 3y ago
I feel like the people still using TPB also use uTorrent. Both are good examples of the lasting power brand recognition can have.
- vlovich123 3y agoWhat do people typically use these days?
- enlyth 3y agoOlder versions of uTorrent (the newer ones have ads now), or qBittorrent mostly
- tough 3y agoAlways used Transimission.app
- eyegor 3y agoDeluge still works the best in my opinion, and it's open source. Not super popular though, most people use the *torrent named clients.
- mindslight 3y agortorrent with unbound to mitigate the UI hangs from DNS lookups (serve-expired = true). The rtorrent config file is extremely hacky and every time I have to muck with it I wonder it why a friendlier interface to libtorrent hasn't overtaken it. But it gets the job done.
- snvzz 3y agoI moved on to Transmission after getting tired of the synchronous DNS lookups.
- mindslight 3y agoI tried Transmission for a while, but it seemed to stall arbitrarily (maybe requiring restarting?) and I couldn't figure out what the problem was. I know it's a popular option, it just didn't work for me, in the time I wanted to spend on setting it up.
- snvzz 3y agoThe first time I tried it, there were issues. That's why I stayed a long time with rtorrent. But that was a good decade ago. No issues now (for me).
- gazby 3y agoWhy not compile curl with c-ares?
- mindslight 3y agoI was scratching my head trying to figure out what curl has to do with rtorrent. But now I'm realizing that it could indeed be using libcurl as torrents use HTTP every place they use DNS. But still I like to run a recursive resolver locally (rather than using a well known public resolver), and part of the problem is that I was getting SERVFAIL responses due to bits of the lookup getting dropped or taking too long (high latency VPN). So unbound fixes that, for rtorrent as well as other software running on the same machine. But maybe next time I visit that aspect of my setup, I'll look into making a Nix derivation for rtorrent with c-ares.
- gazby 3y agoI've seen posts of three asterisks around before, but never spoken to someone who uses them. May I ask what they're for please? Edit: Also consider ruTorrent for a friendlier interface.
- mindslight 3y ago> I've seen posts of three asterisks around before, but never spoken to someone who uses them. May I ask what they're for please? I'm seriously confused. What are you referring to?
- gazby 3y agoOh interesting! I'm subscribed to my replies via hnreplies.com, and your replies come through as just `* * *`, and I could swear I've seen it on the actual site before. Like maybe people were reserving their reply slot or something.
- mindslight 3y agoAh, that must be hnreplies behavior. I've never seen that on HN itself. It could have something to do with me having delay=5 in my profile settings? (This setting makes it so it takes 5 minutes for a comment to show up publicly, in case one wants to reconsider)
- mvanbaak 3y agoNetflix
- fastball 3y agoI still love Transmission.
- ddtaylor 3y agoqBitTorreny is the modern legitimate open source app.
- mrtweetyhack 3y ago[dead]
- AlexanderTheGr8 3y agowhat do people use other than pirate_bay or rarbg? Private torrents are too hard to get into.
- condensacion 3y agohttps://cloudtorrents.com https://cloudtorrents.com
- WeylandYutani 3y ago1337.to
- doublepg23 3y agoI personally use private ones. The existing public ones seem like minefields atm. If you don’t want to put the effort into getting invites, I’d just recommend Usenet at this point. No politics from mods, or invites, just a monthly payment.