The internet needs a better way to share stuff than a fixed list of files. It should be easy to simply browse through a shared folder and decide to participate in storing and hosting that file.
Having to split huge archives like this into multiple torrents is such a terrible workaround. It requires those with huge storage to host the torrents. People who just require a subset can’t properly participate.
Such a pity IPFS is so crap. It should be been the solution to this, but alas…
The torrent protocol is quite happy for you to only download and seed some files within a torrent, it’s just that the most popular client for it isn’t very good at managing very large archives.
I’m guessing there’s probably an alternative client that is better at this, can anyone tell me what it is? If there isn’t one I’ll make one, but I don’t want to burn a weekend duplicating something that already exists…
The internet needs a better way to share stuff than a fixed list of files. It should be easy to simply browse through a shared folder and decide to participate in storing and hosting that file.
Having to split huge archives like this into multiple torrents is such a terrible workaround. It requires those with huge storage to host the torrents. People who just require a subset can’t properly participate.
Such a pity IPFS is so crap. It should be been the solution to this, but alas…
What’s crap about IPFS? I’ve never used it, but have always been intrigued.
The torrent protocol is quite happy for you to only download and seed some files within a torrent, it’s just that the most popular client for it isn’t very good at managing very large archives.
I’m guessing there’s probably an alternative client that is better at this, can anyone tell me what it is? If there isn’t one I’ll make one, but I don’t want to burn a weekend duplicating something that already exists…
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