/t/ - Torrents and Trackers

>leecher client
This is why I don't use public trackers. Fuck popcorntime.

>>45
You whine too much

>>55
But I'm not. Just telling how things are. Leecher clients are called leecher clients for a reason.

>>45
>>60
PT seeds the videos you watch while you're watching them and keeps seeding until you quit PT.

>>63
so is it a movie streamer or something

>>64
Except that it leeches from public swarms and doesn't contribute enough.
The Chinese have been doing this shit for a long time now.

>>64
It's a torrent client which works just like Netflix. It depends on APIs like yts.re and eztv.it to get content and just presents it in a slick UI. It's so simple your grandmother can use it.

>>65
And how do you propose we fix that? Should there be some kind of daemon process that keeps seeding after you close PT? Should that be an opt-in or opt-out feature?

If you'd like to change the behaviour of the torrent client itself, that's not possible in PT as it uses Peerflix which in turn uses torrent-stream. So you might want to complain there they already know if you're good at JavaScript or the bit torrent protocol, you can help

Here's the PT source: https://git.popcorntime.io/stash/projects/PT/repos/popcorn-app/browse

>>68
>Should there be some kind of daemon process that keeps seeding after you close PT?
That sounds good enough.

>Should that be an opt-in or opt-out feature?
The user should be aware of what's happening but it shouldn't be able to opt-out or be penalized by the client if he does, something like you can't download/watch more movies until you get a 0.5 total ratio in public swarms it should be easy enough to get that ratio.

>>72
If PT does that, everyone will move on to the next fork. It's been done already and can easily happen again. Congratulations, you solved nothing.

>>82
there's enough seedboxes on the net that the swarm will survive

>>85
Yes, great idea! Lets abuse of the good will of the people who pay to upload your movies.

>>85
>>90
It is the goal of torrent-stream to be able to self-host a swarm, it's just not there yet. You can also just leave PT running in the background, it'll quietly keep torrenting whatever you watched that session. That's what I do, with a separate instance from a fresh copy of the source tree.