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Astonished by the volume of issues and PRs for this project, they've really felt "complete" for the years I've been using it.

by benoau 2mo ago

mi_lk 2mo ago
Same. I never have issues with Transmission and actively avoid other feature-rich clients but I guess I'm not a super user
- defrost 2mo ago
  Transmission was stable with no updates for a long time, and a few years back it started adding in more recent bittorrent features. First update went ok (IIRC), next one had a feature that few users spotted - a bug caused it to hammer tracker servers with update status requests. The result of that was that many tracker operators started to ban Transmission - the careful ones banned the specific version number, a good many banned either Transmission or the major base release number (4?) To this day, recent Transmissions version that do "play nice" with trackers are penalised and get fewer to no peers and seeds from a torrents tracker pool. I still like Transmission for the tight headless mode and remote control aspects .. but maybe two out of ten torrents stall up and I transfer control to a qBitTorrent instance.
ahartmetz 2mo ago
Try a really big torrent (several hundred GB - note that it's common to only download some files from such a torrent). It doesn't work in Transmission. At that point, I switched to qBittorrent, which has some nice extra features, too.
- hrnn 2mo ago
  What didn't work for you? This is one of my main uses, getting episodes from only one season, out even just the first couple to see if I like it. Worked since forever for me.
  - altairprime 2mo ago
    Changing which files are 'active' doesn't always take effect correctly until the client is restarted, which can lead to 'stalled at 0kb/s' downloads from all possible peers even if the torrent is stopped and then started without restarting the full app.
  - ahartmetz 2mo ago
    IIRC it failed to download anything.
aftbit 2mo ago
As a long time transmission user, I've felt exactly the opposite. They have been slowly falling behind other clients. They still don't have torrent v2 support even![1] It took them many years to implement sequential downloading.[2] 1: https://github.com/transmission/transmission/issues/458#issuecomment-2842019672 https://github.com/transmission/transmission/issues/458#issu... 2: https://github.com/transmission/transmission/pull/4795 https://github.com/transmission/transmission/pull/4795

Astonished by the volume of issues and PRs for this project, they've really felt "complete" for the years I've been using it.

by benoau 2mo ago

Astonished by the volume of issues and PRs for this project, they've really felt "complete" for the years I've been using it.

mi_lk 2mo ago

Same. I never have issues with Transmission and actively avoid other feature-rich clients but I guess I'm not a super user

defrost 2mo ago
Transmission was stable with no updates for a long time, and a few years back it started adding in more recent bittorrent features. First update went ok (IIRC), next one had a feature that few users spotted - a bug caused it to hammer tracker servers with update status requests. The result of that was that many tracker operators started to ban Transmission - the careful ones banned the specific version number, a good many banned either Transmission or the major base release number (4?) To this day, recent Transmissions version that do "play nice" with trackers are penalised and get fewer to no peers and seeds from a torrents tracker pool. I still like Transmission for the tight headless mode and remote control aspects .. but maybe two out of ten torrents stall up and I transfer control to a qBitTorrent instance.

ahartmetz 2mo ago

Try a really big torrent (several hundred GB - note that it's common to only download some files from such a torrent). It doesn't work in Transmission. At that point, I switched to qBittorrent, which has some nice extra features, too.

hrnn 2mo ago
What didn't work for you? This is one of my main uses, getting episodes from only one season, out even just the first couple to see if I like it. Worked since forever for me.
- altairprime 2mo ago
  Changing which files are 'active' doesn't always take effect correctly until the client is restarted, which can lead to 'stalled at 0kb/s' downloads from all possible peers even if the torrent is stopped and then started without restarting the full app.
- ahartmetz 2mo ago
  IIRC it failed to download anything.

aftbit 2mo ago

As a long time transmission user, I've felt exactly the opposite. They have been slowly falling behind other clients. They still don't have torrent v2 support even![1] It took them many years to implement sequential downloading.[2] 1: https://github.com/transmission/transmission/issues/458#issuecomment-2842019672 https://github.com/transmission/transmission/issues/458#issu... 2: https://github.com/transmission/transmission/pull/4795 https://github.com/transmission/transmission/pull/4795