[HN Gopher] Show HN: PikaTorrent, a modern, multi-platform, open...
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Show HN: PikaTorrent, a modern, multi-platform, open source
BitTorrent app
I find existing BitTorrent clients offer a rather old user
interface, and it's hard to set up remote access, involving setting
up a web server, a TLS certificate, domain name, configuring the
router, etc... PikaTorrent tries to offer a modern and easy UI. It
is available on desktop (Linux & Windows for now), mobile (Android
for now), as CLI as an npm package, and even on the web (as a
frontend for remote control). Thanks to WebRTC, one can link the
mobile or web app with the desktop or CLI app. This way, it's
possible to remotely manage torrents securely and without any
complicated setup. From a technical point of view, the app is
using Expo and Tamagui to target the web, desktop, and mobile
(native), meanwhile libtransmission is used as the torrent engine.
So we should expect the same level of performance as the
Transmission client. PikaTorrent is open source, and I just
released v0.3.0 to let potential users try it out and contribute to
the bug/features list on GitHub:
https://github.com/G-Ray/pikatorrent. Thank you for your feedback.
Author : G-Ray
Score : 17 points
Date : 2023-07-15 16:20 UTC (6 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.pikatorrent.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.pikatorrent.com)
| armitron wrote:
| qbittorrent is rock solid, performant (libtorrent puts
| libtransmission to shame), light on resources, has a great webui
| (if you don't want to run in desktop mode) and is programmable
| and featureful. I don't see this as coming close plus it's
| node.js (a major minus).
| dszb wrote:
| I prefer the "rather old interface" over whatever this is. Whats
| the point of so much whitespace? On the desktop screenshot, only
| two downloads are visible in the window. In any decent client you
| would see at least 10 times as many. Stop this obsession with
| wasting the user's screen real estate, I do nit want to buy an
| even bigger display
| readonlyaccount wrote:
| Defaults to bright mode. Well, I say defaults - is there a dark
| mode? Why don't all sites support a switch, defaulting to dark
| in case you don't want to blind yourself?
| tekla wrote:
| Why the hell would you ever use this over qbitorrent. Holy, that
| screenshot is terrible
| hsjqllzlfkf wrote:
| I use qBitTorrent and I disagree that any of those things are
| hard.
| nickserv wrote:
| Same here, it's super easy to set qbittorrent on a server. I
| did put it behind an nginx server but that's just common sense
| when exposing anything on the web.
|
| The web UI does the job, no complaints.
| DaSHacka wrote:
| what's the point putting it behind an NGINX proxy as opposed
| to exposing it directly? Rate-limiting or fail2ban or
| something?
| rowanG077 wrote:
| Why is there so much space. I can only view a few torrents at
| once in this app. I guess I will stay with qbittorrent.
| eimrine wrote:
| How many torrents can PikaTorrent serve simultaniously?
| readonlyaccount wrote:
| Why not use transmission headless with the web interface? ( Ok,
| Transmission's web interface is a bit shit and you have to use
| the command line for some options.)
| midzer wrote:
| Have you tried new v4 web interface?
| readonlyaccount wrote:
| Doesn't like like v4 is in the Raspberry Pi repo. I'll try it
| as soon as it shows up.
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