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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 Amazingly the site is still up but nobody's home, so its very risky to be using an out-of-date client like that with a spyware-laden installer - with the very real possibility of the binaries being switched out.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.

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.

Well your account is on lemmy.world so how d'ya know the issue isn't with your own access to the front end?

Many don't interact with the lemmy.world directly, so we might only see delays in post propogation (if there is such an issue on the backend - I don't see any but could be wrong).

I agree picking the biggest instances isn't great from a scaling perspective, but s'gonna be hard to move any community once established.

Plus footybite.com, which seems to be a copycat, but I can never work out which one yet they both have working streams - one more so than the other. Unfortunately, web site streaming is always hit n miss, and the sheer number of streams listed on these sites makes it harder to find good ones.

Sad they phased out the Ace Stream links (from back when it was r/soccerstreams), coz the tech is pretty impressive and works at scale. If you can hunt down the Ace Stream ID for a particular channel, you can get really good quality streams.

+1 for Duplicacy. Been using it solidly for nearly 6 years - with local storage, sftp, and cloud. Rclone for chonky media. Veeam Agent for local PC backups as a secondary method.

What happens when you press More info?

Wish Ace Stream saw more recognition, it really is awesome - high quality, P2P (based on bittorrent), pretty robust and mostly no freezing/buffering (provided enough peers) and far superior to web site streaming coz there's no stupid ads to interrupt (even with adblockers there's always some javascript nonsense).

Interested in this topic, as having difficulty locating certain scene releases lately. Outside of public torrents (through the arrs), my usual fallback of xdcc and usenet trials for older stuff is failing me atm.

Now I'm wondering is it worth the extra effort and upkeep once again? Had TL back in '09 but let it get inactive, and darn missed the recent open signups fml.