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Re:Database-less torrent website by rakoo on Thursday January 13, 2022 @07:57AM (#29920271)
Mutable torrents do exist (https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0046.html). Your "URL" can now be a public key, and clients will fetch the latest version of the torrent.
Re:Database-less torrent website by ddtaylor on Thursday January 13, 2022 @08:38AM (#29920582)
This is actually really neat I wasn't aware of these BEPs. Do you know of any place where they are being used?
Re:Database-less torrent website by rakoo on Thursday January 13, 2022 @09:03AM (#29920822)
libtorrent has it, webtorrent has been working on it but development of this feature seems to have stalled. That's a real shame, because webtorrent can be used directly from the browser so it would have been very practical to use a single dependency and have pretty much the same functionalities as the article
Re:Database-less torrent website by ddtaylor on Thursday January 13, 2022 @10:08AM (#29921507)
I am also curious if any services or sites are using it yet.
Re:Database-less torrent website by publiush on Thursday January 13, 2022 @10:54AM (#29922061)
I actually made a system called federalist [1] that uses mutable torrents. Hope you like it!

[1] https://github.com/publiusfederalist/federalist