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  • As someone following its development closely, Transmission botched its v3 -> v4 transition by underestimating the difficulty of keeping regressions under control when doing a simultaneous C -> C++ rewrite and adding features.

    My advice? Continue to use Tr3 via https://github.com/stefantalpalaru/transmission-og with spoofed PeerID and keep an eye open on the other clients.

    PS: not convinced by rtorrent's "recent" revival, the general trend in its issue tracker screams "not stable" to me; and still no clean client/daemon, like Qb. I say that as an old rtorrent-pyroscope user that still remembers the horrible config format that made customizing Quake 3's CVARs intuitive.

    by BoingBoomTschak
  • Why not just use qbittorrent? Has RSS, has search in the client, has paths based off categories...
    by gfrecvh
  • libtorrent-rasterbar has (had?) a lot of problems stemming from its complex C++ codebase and Boost dependency. The painful and protracted v1 -> v2 migration was the main visible consequence.

    No proper client/daemon (thus core/GUI, code is Qt-ware) separation with a clean transmission-like RPC.

    by BoingBoomTschak
  • As someone that only very recently switched to qBittorrent from Transmission after using it for few years - the lack of non-Web UI remote clients.
    by dawidpotocki
  • I run transmission on a headless box and only open the remote GUI for it once in a while. Can other bittorrent clients do that out of the box?
    by nottorp
  • Astonished by the volume of issues and PRs for this project, they've really felt "complete" for the years I've been using it.
    by benoau
  • Try a really big torrent (several hundred GB - note that it's common to only download some files from such a torrent). It doesn't work in Transmission. At that point, I switched to qBittorrent, which has some nice extra features, too.
    by ahartmetz
  • Same. I never have issues with Transmission and actively avoid other feature-rich clients but I guess I'm not a super user
    by mi_lk
  • As a long time transmission user, I've felt exactly the opposite. They have been slowly falling behind other clients. They still don't have torrent v2 support even![1] It took them many years to implement sequential downloading.[2]

    1: https://github.com/transmission/transmission/issues/458#issu...

    2: https://github.com/transmission/transmission/pull/4795

    by aftbit
Transmission has been forked as "ReTransmission" · Birbla