My only gripe was that it doesn't handle (unencoded) spaces in a URL name, which is probably correct behavior but they're in the titles of torrents on some sites, so I'd have to manually edit them each time. I ended up just using qBT.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 7 points 6 days ago

Its Single-threaded

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

It doesn't have a proper dark theme in Windows so it let me down when it flashbanged me.

[–] crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 days ago

It gets messed up when downloading files onto a slow smb share but that's mostly my bad

[–] ookiiBoy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 6 days ago

True. Sometimes it's weird about packed files, and cleaning up after itself. Still worth it.

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

Has anyone even used uTorrent in the last decade?

Edit: Apparently, unfortunately, yes

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 25 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

you would not believe how common it is. It's like making a class of highschoolers take a colorblindness test. There's always ONE who had no idea

sidenote, it's really sad how the education system won't even spend 10 minutes a year to diagnose something that effects millions of children. There's FREE websites that they can just open on their board or projector

[–] charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I remember on Reddit I'd see like a post a month from some uneducated pirate person asking how to fix a utorrent issue. It was fun watching them try to justify using it with all the other legit, updated clients. It didn't ever go well for the OP.

[–] Emmie@lemm.ee 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I mean if they want to use it despite being told the state of things then who cares? There’s nothing to win here, it’s their pc

I couldn’t care less if someone on the internet sabotages their files because they want to be right 100% of time

[–] charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

lol, true dat. It was fun fucking with them too

[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago

I used 2.2.1 well into the last decade. Every version after that was either pointless or full of some sort of malware.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 days ago

i still see it in my peers list

[–] RxBrad@infosec.pub 18 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

I've always used Transmission, since there's a Docker container I use that bakes in your VPN-of-choice & a killswitch.

https://haugene.github.io/docker-transmission-openvpn/

That said, it looks like it hasn't been updated in over a year... I wonder if there's anything else out there that does the same thing as this. (EDIT: Yes. Google brings up plenty of choices.)

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 10 points 6 days ago

You can set qBittorrent to only use a certain interface, and set that to the wireguard interface of your VPN.

[–] CrackedLinuxISO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I switched from that container to one that uses qbittorrent and a VPN.

qBittorrent web UI works better on a phone for my use case, and I kept having to manually restart the transmission container whenever the VPN connection dropped.

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

qbitcontroller is a brilliant app on android. It sends push notifications when your downloads complete and it bundles everything into a brilliant interface for mobile imo.

[–] red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 days ago

I run qBittorrent on a server (with a VPN as the only outside connection) and use an open source app to control it from my mobile devices. It can catch magnet: links and torrent files and send them to qBittorrent via its API.

[–] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I been using Transmission since it came out 20 years ago. I never understood why you would use anything else.

It's FOSS and has the simplest interface with all the options.

Throughout the years I've seen so many of these apps get mass-adopted, then a few years later some issue comes up that makes people mass-exodus to another app and it starts all over again.

Meanwhile, Transmission has been consistent (and you can self-host/run seedboxes with it).

[–] aislopmukbang@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I was never a huge fan of those binhex containers assuming that's what you're using. Updates become a chore for maintainers when containers try to do too much and they also become responsible for making sure everything works together. Also, just me, but I don't like the idea of funneling other traffic that needs a vpn through a container that is tightly coupled to my torrent client.

Recommend trying a standalone transmission container and using a gluetun container's network. https://docker-compose.de/en/gluetun/

[–] Xanza@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If they would support a client like Rain I would actually switch to the *arr stack.

[–] American_Jesus@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago

Don't need to support every client, if the client supports folder monitor you can use blackhole

[–] Ohh@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'll be the one: use rtorrent

[–] CarbonBasedNPU@lemm.ee 11 points 5 days ago

Why rtorrent vs QBittorrent?

[–] ctkatz@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 days ago

if I still downloaded directly to my local drive, I'd use utorrent BUT only the 2.2.1 version. it's been at least 4 years since I've done that due to a lack of having a functional laptop so I've been out of downloading stuff that way for years, but even then I knew that modern utorrent was bad. I actually stopped using any new version once bittorrent bought it.

[–] cavemeat@beehaw.org 2 points 6 days ago

Damn, I don't know the context but this is cool af

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