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Re: Show HN: Mabel – a fancy BitTorrent client for the terminal

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Post by blooalien » Mon, Jun 20, 2022, 5:16 AM UTC

zahma wrote: post #7

nr2x wrote: post #6

How many people are using torrents for non-piracy reasons?

You can download some Linux distros and other open source software this way, but yeah…it is largely used for piracy.

> "You can download some Linux distros and other open source software this way" …

That's pretty much all I use it for. Great for grabbing the latest shiny Linux iso image.

Re: Show HN: Mabel – a fancy BitTorrent client for the terminal

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Post by ngcc_hk » Mon, Jun 20, 2022, 5:41 AM UTC

Is there any state of union like link for torrent and other related protocols as mentioned? A bit outdated. And torrent site is not very reliable to get info.

Re: Show HN: Mabel – a fancy BitTorrent client for the terminal

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Post by strken » Mon, Jun 20, 2022, 6:17 AM UTC

nr2x wrote: post #6

How many people are using torrents for non-piracy reasons?

The old WoW launcher used to use torrents for distributing the base game and for updates. For some reason they removed that.

Re: Show HN: Mabel – a fancy BitTorrent client for the terminal

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Post by midasz » Mon, Jun 20, 2022, 6:21 AM UTC

nr2x wrote: post #6

How many people are using torrents for non-piracy reasons?

Another example is Facepacks for Football Manager, those are in the tens of GBs. Torrents are a great way to share them around.

Re: Show HN: Mabel – a fancy BitTorrent client for the terminal

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Post by 0x38B » Mon, Jun 20, 2022, 7:32 AM UTC

iqkznnft wrote: post #33

I hope this is a good place to ask: what do people in HN use for torrent client? I recently learned that transmission got hacked (more than once apparently) so I decided to stop using it. The alternatives seem to be deluge or qbittorrent. I picked the latter because it has labels (and supports moving finished downloads to different folders depending on label), which is a feature I'd always wanted in a torrent client.…

qBittorrent is great: set up qbittorrent-nox on a server somewhere in the world and you can do everything through the WebUI.

Re: Show HN: Mabel – a fancy BitTorrent client for the terminal

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Post by hansel_der » Mon, Jun 20, 2022, 7:37 AM UTC

iqkznnft wrote: post #33

I hope this is a good place to ask: what do people in HN use for torrent client? I recently learned that transmission got hacked (more than once apparently) so I decided to stop using it. The alternatives seem to be deluge or qbittorrent. I picked the latter because it has labels (and supports moving finished downloads to different folders depending on label), which is a feature I'd always wanted in a torrent client.…

rtorrent for a decade or so.

i use it because of drm.

Re: Show HN: Mabel – a fancy BitTorrent client for the terminal

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Post by figbert » Mon, Jun 20, 2022, 7:42 AM UTC

tanduv wrote: post #38

memorable wrote: post #35

What is the font used in one of the screenshots ( https://github.com/smmr-software/mabel/blob/main/desert.png )? Looks rock solid!

Looks like Jetbrains Mono

It is! Highly recommend.

Re: Show HN: Mabel – a fancy BitTorrent client for the terminal

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Post by thedougd » Mon, Jun 20, 2022, 7:44 AM UTC

iqkznnft wrote: post #33

I hope this is a good place to ask: what do people in HN use for torrent client? I recently learned that transmission got hacked (more than once apparently) so I decided to stop using it. The alternatives seem to be deluge or qbittorrent. I picked the latter because it has labels (and supports moving finished downloads to different folders depending on label), which is a feature I'd always wanted in a torrent client.…

Transmission

Re: Show HN: Mabel – a fancy BitTorrent client for the terminal

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Post by Akronymus » Mon, Jun 20, 2022, 7:51 AM UTC

iqkznnft wrote: post #33

I hope this is a good place to ask: what do people in HN use for torrent client? I recently learned that transmission got hacked (more than once apparently) so I decided to stop using it. The alternatives seem to be deluge or qbittorrent. I picked the latter because it has labels (and supports moving finished downloads to different folders depending on label), which is a feature I'd always wanted in a torrent client.…

For me, Deluge is pretty much perfect. Altough, I don't really use any advanced features.

Re: Show HN: Mabel – a fancy BitTorrent client for the terminal

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Post by Akronymus » Mon, Jun 20, 2022, 7:53 AM UTC

nr2x wrote: post #6

How many people are using torrents for non-piracy reasons?

I occasionally use a torrent to simply move large files to a slow endpoint (essentially a 1:1 connection), so I don't have to keep the session alive for the whole file move. I know there are probably other, better, solutions for that, but it works for me.