Astonished by the volume of issues and PRs for this project, they've really felt "complete" for the years I've been using it.
Same. I never have issues with Transmission and actively avoid other feature-rich clients but I guess I'm not a super user
Transmission has been forked as "ReTransmission"
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Re: Transmission has been forked as "ReTransmission"
#12Astonished by the volume of issues and PRs for this project, they've really felt "complete" for the years I've been using it.
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.
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.
Re: Transmission has been forked as "ReTransmission"
#13Why not just use qbittorrent? Has RSS, has search in the client, has paths based off categories...
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.
I'd recommend checking out qui - still web-based but extremely well made.
Re: Transmission has been forked as "ReTransmission"
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
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.
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.
Re: Transmission has been forked as "ReTransmission"
#15Astonished by the volume of issues and PRs for this project, they've really felt "complete" for the years I've been using it.
Same. I never have issues with Transmission and actively avoid other feature-rich clients but I guess I'm not a super user
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.
Re: Transmission has been forked as "ReTransmission"
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
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.
IIRC it failed to download anything.
Re: Transmission has been forked as "ReTransmission"
#17Why not just use qbittorrent? Has RSS, has search in the client, has paths based off categories...
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?
Re: Transmission has been forked as "ReTransmission"
#18Astonished by the volume of issues and PRs for this project, they've really felt "complete" for the years I've been using it.
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...