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I'm spinning up a new seedbox and wanted to know what is everyone using nowadays? I was using deluge via the thick client and rutorrent previously. Are they still king? edit: I should have also mentioned that I plan on running this server headless so I will need to be able to access it via a thin client or a web browser

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

+1 for qBittorrent. I used to be a Deluge fan, but qBittorrent seems more performant and feature-packed.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Still qbittorrent. Docker container with web UI makes it trivial.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

At least there's one thing these Lemmy people agree with me on.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I like that they were using ALL CAPS and you're using all lowercase.

qBittorrent

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago

qBittorrent and rtorrent are very popular.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (2 children)

qBittorrent is probably the most commonly used client. Transmission is another popular option, especially among macOS users, since it has a familiar design and feels more native.

rTorrent is great if you want a CLI app, and ruTorrent offers a web frontend. Another option that you can run on a server is Deluge.

You can control qBittorrent from Android using qBitController or from iOS using qBitControl (you can get it from AltStore after adding the Michael-128 repo). Transdroid supports other clients as well, and it's my personal favorite. If you want to torrent on the Android device itself, check out LibreTorrent. For iOS, use iTorrent (also available on AltStore).

If you already plan on self-hosting, or have root access on your seed box (or some other way of installing applications/deploying Docker containers), I also recommend setting up bitmagnet. It's basically your own torrent indexer and search engine. It can also integrate with your *arr applications.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Transmission is my favorite design-wise on macOS but I wish it had i2p support.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do you use altstore? Have you tried livecontainer to avoid the 3 app limit?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Deluge always seems so underrepresented, but as far as I know it's never had a version compromised with malware like some of the other popular clients. It also performs great when you are seeding over 1000 torrents as long as you upgrade to version two.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Better to use the underrepresented torrent clients. They have the least chance of enshittification.

looks at µTorrent

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Qbittorrent, Transmission and Ktorrent the Last two When some updates breaks Qbittorrent

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

arch-qbittorrentvpn docker container, because it was the easiest to set up on my TrueNAS home server.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Qbittorrent via a container and web UI on my NAS, lets me use it as a backend for *arrs as well as anything else, just have tag based directories for it so Software goes into one folder and TV movies etc in their respective folders.

I personally like the setup a lot since I can always be a seeder even well after my ratio is hit.

slskd hooked up to this as well to share everything music wise, gives me a nice way to reconcile stuff Lidarr can't find and shares it all back for anyone to browse so hopefully helps someone downloadv something they're searching for a FLAC of

nzb360 on Android for management as needed, it hooks into Qbittorrent easily and gives me a nice place to do some quicker tasks for my overall infra

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

qBittorrent. With a quick UI switch to vuetorrent for the tablet. LXC bound to a bridge thats VPN connected.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

The is the way

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I’ve been using Transmission for many years.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

iblocklist and transmission name a better team

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

I've got Transmission on my NAS and use Transmission-remote(Linux and android) for the client. Simple, easy to setup and it just works.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not sure why it's not more popular. I use and donate. I've had better performance with this than qbittorrent.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Closed source, and their prominent "contains NO Spyware" disclaimer doesn't quite instill confidence. I have also never even heard about it until now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I don't use that client either - But to be fair the dev (Kevin Hearn) has a long history with P2P software e.g. depending how old you are you may have used his WinMX software back in the day. He isn't known for sticking spyware/malware into his software so I sort of trust the software he puts out in that sense. He also maintains other non-torrent P2P file sharing software outside of Tixati.

Of course it would be better if it was open source but he's never been an open source coder AFAIK.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

I’m currently using Transmission again

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

transmission in docker container on NAS, with dedicated IP that gets forced through VPN on my router

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

qBittorent for Windows and LibreTorrent for Android.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Random semi-related thought. I'm going through the comparison of BitTorrent clients page on Wikipedia and it's amazing how many clients end up as Adware.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I keep recommending Tribler and I don't know why it's not more popular. Anything wrong with it?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I appreciate the ability for the tor-like layered routing with tribler. Getting the headless UI set up is annoying, though.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

qbittorrent on PC and libretorrent on Android.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Glad to see I'm not the only one who torrents on mobile

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I hear people use the search function of QBitTorrent tied to VPN tunnel. Basic, but it works

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I'm a much bigger fan of the deluge thin client, personally.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I use biglybt, i know the ui isn't great but the features make up for it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

On a headless seedbox Deluge/ruTorrent/Transmission are still reliable, most of the paid seedbox services still default with those.

qBittorrent is hugely popular on the desktop front and has been getting more popular as a headless client now that the web ui has improved, also look into qbittorrent-nox if you don't have a gui to do initial setup with.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

qbit on pc, flud on android

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

transmission

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I used transmission for years, but the larger my library got the more issues I had. Currently using Qbit and loving the categories for easier management, especially with the *arr suite.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Good ol' rtorrent never dissapoints. For when I want something with a webui, I have a qflood container that I extracted from its old *arr setup to more generalistic usage.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I've had a poor experience with Deluge, a bug report completely disregarded years ago as I wasn't able to provide (very technical) details to the developers without some assistance, which they smugly refused to provide (I don't act entitled). I then stumbled upon a post where one of them discussed the reason why they wouldn't add workarounds in the installer as qBittorrent did (firewall exception and a couple of other things I can't recall right now), their reasoning and their wording struck me as strongly ideological, and it made me uneasy. I've had a similar experience with Affinity developers who (again, by way of ideology) refused to add an "interface scale" parameter to their programs, adamant on letting the OS handle the scaling, even though I couldn't change my OS scale because it messed up other programs. Their response was "it's the other program's fault". Very helpful. 👍🏼

Anyway, I was trying to say I don't like Deluge. To answer your question I know it runs via a variety of interfaces so I wouldn't be surprised it's your best bet. I personally use qBittorrent .

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

rTorrent with Flood front end.

My only complaint so far is being unable to reach the rTorrent TUI when it's running headless. It otherwise works great.

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