Took long enough. uTorrent has been cancerous for a long time now.
at least 15 years lol
I honestly couldn’t say how long. I know I was late to the party on knowing what was going on but even I moved on from it a long time ago now.
i used utorrent until a few years ago when i started caring enough to switch. old habit, like over 15 years ago when my mom taught me how to pirate, utorrent was good back then. don’t know why i kept using it for that long, i even had to block ads in it by editing the hosts file…
I think it just comes down to habit and wanting to keep things simple. The adage “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” exists for a reason, after all. I never even bothered going as far as to trying block the ads. They suddenly appeared for me one day but would never render, the panels just kept flashing at me. It might have been while looking up a fix - I can’t remember - but it was around that time that I also heard about the undisclosed mining issue so I quickly jumped ship. Been happily using qbittorrent ever since and now wouldn’t really be able to swap again thanks to finding a proper dark mode theme for it. So few others seem to have it and I have no idea what I’m doing with theme creation.
some private trackers won’t let you use uTorrent either, good.
Only a decade late… Luckily qBittorrent is brilliant. And if qBittorrent somehow wasn’t an option, I might go with BiglyBT - it’s not the easiest on the eyes, but lots of settings.
To be fair, if you set up a Servar stack, you should already know enough not to use utorrent.
Transmission has never let me down.
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.
Its Single-threaded
It doesn’t have a proper dark theme in Windows so it let me down when it flashbanged me.
It gets messed up when downloading files onto a slow smb share but that’s mostly my bad
True. Sometimes it’s weird about packed files, and cleaning up after itself. Still worth it.
Has anyone even used uTorrent in the last decade?
Edit: Apparently, unfortunately, yes
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
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.
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
lol, true dat. It was fun fucking with them too
I used 2.2.1 well into the last decade. Every version after that was either pointless or full of some sort of malware.
i still see it in my peers list
uTorrent’s brand recognition is crazy, it’s been crap for years and it still the name people who don’t torrrent often recognize.
Nice change, good to steer the novices away from that junk.It’s so ubiquitous that for about a second I thought wait what I thought that was the good one until I remembered that I’ve been using qBittorrent for a decade.
For a time, it just was the client.
I thought people either used the old 2.2.1 version or jumped ship. Had no idea it was still going.
Same, I was under the impression that this was fairly common knowledge, but it’s good to have it openly announced by some authority on the matter.
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.)
You can set qBittorrent to only use a certain interface, and set that to the wireguard interface of your VPN.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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/
If uTorrent has no haters, I am dead
If they would support a client like Rain I would actually switch to the *arr stack.
Don’t need to support every client, if the client supports folder monitor you can use blackhole
There’s a migration program to transfer torrents from utorrent to qbittorrent.
https://forum.qbittorrent.org/viewtopic.php?t=3224
I remember using it way back when, and they’ve kept it updated.
Isn’t it as simple as exporting all torrents as
.torrentfiles, importing them in qB, then pointing qB to the same downloads folder?Some people have torrents across various directories or even renamed files in them (yes, it’s possible and useful for crossseeding between trackers with different naming schemes). Of course, this makes migration way more difficult.
I’ll be the one: use rtorrent
Why rtorrent vs QBittorrent?
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.
ruTorrent)))
Damn, I don’t know the context but this is cool af
