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The main reason I switched to Deluge is that it has great support for Socks proxies. Surprisingly, the support is terrible or non-existent in other clients that I tested (Transmission). If you use a proxy that's only available through your VPN, you'll be protected if the VPN connection goes down.
If my wireguard VPN goes down then I lose connectivity. What garbage VPN tech would silently disable on failure?
qBittorrent ( https://www.qbittorrent.org ) is far superior. Cross platform, feature rich, actively developed.
In my opinion, nobody (edit: who values their privacy) should use Deluge. There's an issue where proxy settings are ignored: https://dev.deluge-torrent.org/ticket/2149 It's been open since 10 years, and this is not a great situation for a torrent client. Where torrents are concerned, proxies are explicitly used to protect privacy. Even in this very topic, someone said they were happy with the SOCKS proxy option in De…
That's pretty harsh for the client just not supporting one non-essential feature. Many power users of Deluge or other torrent clients run it on seedboxes where a proxy isn't needed and would also negatively impact the speed.
QBittorrent is the best torrent client right now, IMO. Fully open-source and free. Very feature-rich and reliable.
In my opinion, nobody (edit: who values their privacy) should use Deluge. There's an issue where proxy settings are ignored: https://dev.deluge-torrent.org/ticket/2149 It's been open since 10 years, and this is not a great situation for a torrent client. Where torrents are concerned, proxies are explicitly used to protect privacy. Even in this very topic, someone said they were happy with the SOCKS proxy option in De…
I thought BitTorrent was a protocol on top of e.g. TCP, is it carried inside HTTP by some clients?
I don’t do much with BitTorrent other than download Linux isos. What’s the advantage to Deluge over Transmission? (which is what I’ve always used since the whole uTorrent controversy)
Plugins, not sure why nobody mentions them so far here but it's the main reason why I haven't switched to anything else. I use: - autoextract plugin to extract files inside the torrents - autoremove plugin to remove torrents after x days, x seed time, with exceptions to trackers, labels etc - LabelPlus improves on top of Deluge label system and adds a lot of different options that you can apply to the torrents with c…
In my opinion, nobody (edit: who values their privacy) should use Deluge. There's an issue where proxy settings are ignored: https://dev.deluge-torrent.org/ticket/2149 It's been open since 10 years, and this is not a great situation for a torrent client. Where torrents are concerned, proxies are explicitly used to protect privacy. Even in this very topic, someone said they were happy with the SOCKS proxy option in De…
> In my opinion, nobody should use Deluge. That's pretty harsh for the client just not supporting one non-essential feature. Many power users of Deluge or other torrent clients run it on seedboxes where a proxy isn't needed and would also negatively impact the speed.
It's about a project that silently ignores a privacy-related setting, which then exposes the fact that people download something.
Is torrents still a thing? Genuinely curious. It looks like a cool piece of software with lots of nice features, but I mean.. I don't need, as far as I know, a client-server stack for downloading stuff.
In my opinion, nobody (edit: who values their privacy) should use Deluge. There's an issue where proxy settings are ignored: https://dev.deluge-torrent.org/ticket/2149 It's been open since 10 years, and this is not a great situation for a torrent client. Where torrents are concerned, proxies are explicitly used to protect privacy. Even in this very topic, someone said they were happy with the SOCKS proxy option in De…
Clearly, none of the maintainers found this to be a problem. They likely don't need proxy settings for themselves. And they apparently also don't want to spend the time and energy to fix an issue that they don't have. That doesn't mean it's not an issue. It's just not an issue for them and they choose to do other things in life than fix it for you. Do you really demand somebody who already gave something to you for free to do even more work for free to implement something that they don't need themselves? Why would they do it? To get you to stop complain?
It's open source, you are free to go fix it yourself. This is Hacker News, lots of people on here should have the competence to fix this. Yet, in the last 10 years, apparently nobody found it so bad that they fixed it. It is clearly not impacting as many people as you make it sound like.
"Nobody should use Deluge" is an unsuitable statement, just because it has an issue in your use case. Many people don't have that use case, and of those who do, nobody bothered to fix it yet. Complaining doesn't fix anything.
What needs just as much fixing as the raised issue is your attitude towards open source.