The internet needs a better way to share stuff than a fixed list of files. It should be easy to simply browse through a shared folder and decide to participate in storing and hosting that file.

Having to split huge archives like this into multiple torrents is such a terrible workaround. It requires those with huge storage to host the torrents. People who just require a subset can't properly participate.

Such a pity IPFS is so crap. It should be been the solution to this, but alas...

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

What's crap about IPFS? I've never used it, but have always been intrigued.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

It's a resource hog and quite unstable. A major gripe I have with it is that it makes accessing what you downloaded very difficult because the documentation is terrible. It should be possible to mount all your downloaded stuff into a folder, but I have yet to figure out how. And despite all its resource usage, it is very slow.

The idea is amazing (peer-to-peer, content-addressed storage), but the implementation is extremely lacking.

[–] axx@slrpnk.net 2 points 9 hours ago

It's got lots of great ideas (combining what's essentially a giant git repo with bit torrent), but in practice it's pretty slow to do anything

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 8 points 22 hours ago

The torrent protocol is quite happy for you to only download and seed some files within a torrent, it's just that the most popular client for it isn't very good at managing very large archives.

I'm guessing there's probably an alternative client that is better at this, can anyone tell me what it is? If there isn't one I'll make one, but I don't want to burn a weekend duplicating something that already exists...