If anyone’s unfamiliar with this client, it’s been around a long time, and was previously named Vuze (and before that: Azureus)!
Tis been under active development by the two main devs for all these years. The adware crap was removed from day 1 of the fork and it’s a really solid (and featurefull) client. Highly recommend. Also does I2P.
The absolute best feature is Swarm Discovery and Swarm Merge, which lets you find identical large files across different torrents and cross-seed and merge said torrents while downloading both. With Swarm, I’ve been able to download torrents with <1.0 availability - completing both torrents and become the seed hero. And this was before it supported the v2 BitTorrent spec (which gives you individual file hashes).
I still use qBit for my *arr automation but BiglyBT is always there for everything else and as a great backup client.
Wait can you explain what happened with the adware thing?
Towards the end of its life, Vuze started adding crap like ads in the sidepanel and spyware in the installer. Plus a bunch of useless features like DVD burning and ‘content network’. My guess is the two main devs got involved with some investors at the time of the Azureus rename and didn’t like the way it was heading, so forked the project and rebranded to BiglyBT so they could go it on their own. Since it was open source, and mostly their own code, they couldn’t really stop them. Edit: More info at TF.
Sad thing is, many people are blissfully unaware of the history and still running Vuze to this day - when it hasn’t been touched in 6+ years. Amazingly the site is still up but nobody’s home, so its very risky to be using an out-of-date client like that with a spyware-laden installer - with the very real possibility of the binaries being switched out. (Their SSL cert has lapsed several times.)
The good news is, if anyone’s still running Vuze, BiglyBT is a straight swap-out.
The ads were a Vuze thing, not BiglyBT.
When the devs left Vuze and forked the code into BiglyBT they never included ads or anything like that. That’s what the comment meant, that since day 1 of the BiglyBT fork it did not include the ad junk that Vuze has.
What is qbt? Is this a short name? For ssh I use transmission is qbt anyway better?
qBittorrent
Yea qBittorrent, chosen as was meant to be lightweight so runs in a docker container on a Raspberry Pi 4 (but often eats all 8GB available RAM - could be just a problem with the docker imagine tho.) Haven’t used Transmission so can’t compare.
Ha. Had no idea Azureus/Vuze kept going/forking. This BiglyBT sounds decent (name a deliberate play on Trump’s “big league”/bigly thing?). I see stuff like this and wanna try it, but since I only DL video these days and use RD with Stremio, I don’t really have a use case lol.
The ratings/comments feature sounds super nice
Something about Java apps make me avoid them though not sure why. Is this unreasonable?
It’s the UI. I agree. Something about swing UI is just off-putting.
I just tried it. Custom UI with wonky text, doesn’t support system dark mode, started up taking over my whole ultra-wide screen in a flood of white. Immediately removed this.
Java apps can be made well though but this isn’t one of them.
Compared to the memory footprint of web browsers, a Java BT app is pretty tame on modern computers these days. Nor do you have to faff around with installing JRE manually. It just works.
Resource usage is pretty good tho and it can handle hundreds of torrents with ease.
What about thousands?
Have heard ppl used it with that many but not tested myself.
BiglyBT is still my favourite torrent client, is what I use on android too lol
Cheers, used to use azerus, didn’t like vuze. This seems pretty good, I’ll test er out
I used to like Azureus, even though it was often very heavy on I/O and might have killed an old rust-spinner or two. Good to see core devs trying a comeback after the Vuze drift, I can’t blame them for trying to make it into a business but it just didn’t work out. Hopefully they can move the ecosystem forward for casual users who can’t be arsed to set.up the “Arr” rigamarole.
Azureus? Vuze?
…what year is it?
I constantly get a “Swarm discovery” popup I can only decline. The agree button is grayed out no matter what I do.
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