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I want to see your project succeed, and I'm probably not alone. What kind of help do you need?

synctext 3y ago
We love to have more help! Hardest part is debugging. So running Tribler and reporting bug in Github. We are in desperate need of Win/Mac/Linux users which will help us with reproduce bugs. One time we found bugs in Python Async IO standard lib [1]. The 'once in a week' bugs are difficult to capture. [1] https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/pull/7926 https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/pull/7926
- nathan_compton 3y ago
  The reason I don't run TOR exit nodes is that I neither wish to support criminal activity (of at least certain types) nor do I want to get entangled with law enforcement for doing so. Since this is TOR-like, what are my legal liabilities if I am running this software?
  - synctext 3y ago
    Tribler does not include a Tor exit node!
    - wongarsu 3y ago
      But can you download data from regular bittorrent peers using Tribler? And if yes, how does my traffic reach them? Suppose I want to download a torrent that's only seeded by one person running Deluge. My understanding was that this would involve making a connection to another Tribler user, and that user making the connection to that seeder. That would make every client a sort of exit node for bittorrent traffic, even for torrents they don't download. Is that not how it works?
- wongarsu 3y ago
  From my outsider's view, the part where you need the most help is actually your website. From the https://tribler.org https://tribler.org homepage it's very hard to figure out what tribler actually is, and the only screenshots are hidden away in the support and developer categories, and all feature vastly different menu items (without clear indication how to get those features, if they even still exist). The API documentation isn't linked anywhere. And while installing the client and downloading your first torrent is easy enough, there isn't a lot of info on how to do anything else. And the help that does exist is outdated or wrong. The https://www.tribler.org/howto.html https://www.tribler.org/howto.html seems to be for a completely different version than what I get when I download and install the Windows version, and 3 out of 4 steps don't work as described (The text in 2 is completely wrong/outdated, I don't even have the menu item for 3, nor the icon for 4)
  - Animats 3y ago
    > it's very hard to figure out what tribler actually is From the buzzwords, some kind of crypto scheme: "Micro-economy", "self-sovereign", "reward content creators directly", "micro-economy without banks", "fully distributed ledgers". It reads like crypto bolted onto torrents.
    - __MatrixMan__ 3y ago
      "Trust Chain" has this as one of its design decision: - No global consensus which I think sets it quite apart from anything on a blockchain.
      - SkyMarshal 3y ago
        I noticed that too: https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/wiki/%22TrustChain%22-architecture https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/wiki/%22TrustChain%22-arc... But not much else about it. Would be interested to read more. Using torrent seeding as a form of Proof-of-Work that rewards tokens is actually an interesting use case for cryptocurrency, and not as energy-hungry. But no global consensus is different from any crypto I've ever heard of. How does it keep a consistent ledger or who owns what tokens? Edit: full explanation here - https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/wiki/The-design-of-a-trustworthy-ecosystem-around-media-sharing https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/wiki/The-design-of-a-trus...

We love to have more help! Hardest part is debugging. So running Tribler and reporting bug in Github. We are in desperate need of Win/Mac/Linux users which will help us with reproduce bugs. One time we found bugs in Python Async IO standard lib [1]. The 'once in a week' bugs are difficult to capture. [1] https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/pull/7926 https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/pull/7926

nathan_compton 3y ago
The reason I don't run TOR exit nodes is that I neither wish to support criminal activity (of at least certain types) nor do I want to get entangled with law enforcement for doing so. Since this is TOR-like, what are my legal liabilities if I am running this software?
- synctext 3y ago
  Tribler does not include a Tor exit node!
  - wongarsu 3y ago
    But can you download data from regular bittorrent peers using Tribler? And if yes, how does my traffic reach them? Suppose I want to download a torrent that's only seeded by one person running Deluge. My understanding was that this would involve making a connection to another Tribler user, and that user making the connection to that seeder. That would make every client a sort of exit node for bittorrent traffic, even for torrents they don't download. Is that not how it works?
wongarsu 3y ago
From my outsider's view, the part where you need the most help is actually your website. From the https://tribler.org https://tribler.org homepage it's very hard to figure out what tribler actually is, and the only screenshots are hidden away in the support and developer categories, and all feature vastly different menu items (without clear indication how to get those features, if they even still exist). The API documentation isn't linked anywhere. And while installing the client and downloading your first torrent is easy enough, there isn't a lot of info on how to do anything else. And the help that does exist is outdated or wrong. The https://www.tribler.org/howto.html https://www.tribler.org/howto.html seems to be for a completely different version than what I get when I download and install the Windows version, and 3 out of 4 steps don't work as described (The text in 2 is completely wrong/outdated, I don't even have the menu item for 3, nor the icon for 4)
- Animats 3y ago
  > it's very hard to figure out what tribler actually is From the buzzwords, some kind of crypto scheme: "Micro-economy", "self-sovereign", "reward content creators directly", "micro-economy without banks", "fully distributed ledgers". It reads like crypto bolted onto torrents.
  - __MatrixMan__ 3y ago
    "Trust Chain" has this as one of its design decision: - No global consensus which I think sets it quite apart from anything on a blockchain.
    - SkyMarshal 3y ago
      I noticed that too: https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/wiki/%22TrustChain%22-architecture https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/wiki/%22TrustChain%22-arc... But not much else about it. Would be interested to read more. Using torrent seeding as a form of Proof-of-Work that rewards tokens is actually an interesting use case for cryptocurrency, and not as energy-hungry. But no global consensus is different from any crypto I've ever heard of. How does it keep a consistent ledger or who owns what tokens? Edit: full explanation here - https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/wiki/The-design-of-a-trustworthy-ecosystem-around-media-sharing https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/wiki/The-design-of-a-trus...