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Re:Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used? by enos_feedler on Friday November 26, 2021 @09:35PM (#29356736)
Also getting to like 98% and not completing the download. Very aggravating
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Re:Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used? by ethbr0 on Friday November 26, 2021 @10:59PM (#29357269)
Does the BitTorrent protocol have an announcement / stored metadata of "recently highest percentage of file seen"?

This seems like one of the biggest problems with more decentralized torrents (i.e. ones not backed by a community / core seeder), but also most a UX issue and seemingly trivially solvable.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used? by allset_ on Saturday November 27, 2021 @01:08AM (#29357920)
No, but clients do advertise how much of the torrent they have, so you can glance at your peer list and if you have 2 peers stuck at 10%... there's a good chance that you won't get more than 10%.
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Re:Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used? by ethbr0 on Saturday November 27, 2021 @01:16AM (#29357954)
Yeah, and while current peer % is useful, it doesn't answer the other user question of "What percent of this thing has been seen anywhere recently?"

Which seems a pretty reasonable question for a user to have, if we're talking about fully decentralized torrents without a tracker.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used? by kevincox on Saturday November 27, 2021 @04:56PM (#29363974)
QBittorrent will tell you if the swarm is currently missing any pieces. But it doesn't have historical data.
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