| ▲ | Transmission has been forked as "ReTransmission"(github.com) |
| 45 points by jonatanholmgren 3 days ago | 22 comments |
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| ▲ | benoau 3 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Astonished by the volume of issues and PRs for this project, they've really felt "complete" for the years I've been using it. |
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| ▲ | aftbit 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | 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#issu... 2: https://github.com/transmission/transmission/pull/4795 | |
| ▲ | mi_lk 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Same. I never have issues with Transmission and actively avoid other feature-rich clients but I guess I'm not a super user | | |
| ▲ | defrost 2 days ago | parent [-] | | 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. |
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| ▲ | ahartmetz 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | 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 2 days ago | parent [-] | | 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 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | 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 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | IIRC it failed to download anything. |
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| ▲ | gfrecvh 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Why not just use qbittorrent? Has RSS, has search in the client, has paths based off categories... |
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| ▲ | nottorp 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | I run transmission on a headless box and only open the remote GUI for it once in a while. Can other bittorrent clients do that out of the box? | | | |
| ▲ | dawidpotocki 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | As someone that only very recently switched to qBittorrent from Transmission after using it for few years - the lack of non-Web UI remote clients. | | |
| ▲ | davkan 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | deluge is probably the best for native gui. It doesnt have the amount of integrations as qb and it struggles with many thousands of torrents (or at least it did 10yrs ago), but otherwise a great client. Otherwise there’s qui for qb which, while still a webui, is great. | |
| ▲ | sapphyrus 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I'd recommend checking out qui - still web-based but extremely well made. | |
| ▲ | Trung0246 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | You can probably just use VueTorrent or qBitController android app for headless mode. | | |
| ▲ | dawidpotocki 3 days ago | parent [-] | | VueTorrent is a web client. I currently use the official Web UI in an isolated Chromium instance and made an automatic log in page so that I don't have to type in the password every single time I open it. I add torrents to the qBittorrent instance using a Firefox addon. It's all a bit jank. I started some work to make my own qBittorrent client for desktop; I don't care about mobile that much. |
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