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Whoever designed that seems like they have something against transmission lol.

For me personally: it gets the job done, is allowed by most private trackers, fast and responsive, has a functional webui, and a very vast selection of third party apps (in addition to the cross platform first-party offering)

It's simplicity is kind of its selling point. Only real criticism I have is that it's unfortunate some of the supported features aren't accessible in the first party apps, and especially from the lightweight web interface

Transmission is awesome because it's simple. It only does what you need and has the best UI for doing so.

qBittorrent is indeed the best, but ranking Transmission so low just screams edgy kid trying to dislike the "normie" alternative.

I feel like Transmission is getting unnecessary hate from this chart. It works very good, is stable, efficient...

This triggers me. Transmission is perfect.

Transmission is good precisely because it does one thing and one thing really well - download torrents. No other crap, spam and non-related garbage required.

rTorrent “UNIX only” and c-tier. That says all you need to know about this list.

I have seen this same image circulated for years. We need a new one because transmission in D tier is unacceptable.

Transmission as a server is very good and lightweight, specially if you pair it with something like Flood and the *arr apps

This is out of date and Deluge is S tier.

It was rewritten and 2.0 came out in 2022 to address the slowdown issues when seeding a thousand plus torrents

qbittorrent all the way :)

I love the built in http server for remote control. It's literally a clone of the desktop window with all the same controls/options.

BiglyBT having a chat feature boggles me, why would anyone want that in their torrent client?

This post made me nostalgic for the days when uTorrent was the shit. Man, how the mighty have fallen.

Transmission is probably one of the best clients to use in a headless setup. I think it usually ranks lower because it doesn't do a lot of things for you. What it does it does well, but nothing beyond that. Technically there is network binding, but by IP address and not interface. That means you have to script it which I know most people aren't going to want to do. As far as searching, again you have to rely on other services that probably do it better anyway. Still I rank it alongside qbittorrent. It just takes a less user or beginner friendly route.

Everyone sleeping on qBittorrent with the search plugin enabled. I never have to go to websites ever again, I can just pull from various domains with one search built into the program.

Why would I want those extra features in my torrent client? My transmission runs in a container and does its job

I think quite a few of us use torrents on a remote server, so the thin app / remote client combo mode that deluge/transmission support puts them ahead of any other for consideration.

Transmission does have network binding. At least, i'm pretty sure it does. At least on Linux. It also has a cli interface and is a "full" client so it should at least be on par with rTorrent in that sense. It's not a great cli interface but it works.

I like Transmission, it's minimal and downloads torrents.

May I also mention aria2? I don't think it counts as a torrent client but it supports torrenting.

rankings from /g/

everyone who is seriously replying to this: LOL

I switched from rtorrent to Transmission. It's the only one with a ready-to-use web server so I can add and monitor my torrents remotely.

I would never run a torrent program on my main computer. Not that there's (more) risks, it just feels wrong to me.

I'd like to give PicoTorrent a shout-out on Windows. Small, lightweight, and open source.

https://github.com/picotorrent/picotorrent

A properly setup rTorrent is S tier.

Used qBittorrent for a long time now. No complaints. Ever since I've set up a home server, I almost exclusively use qBittorrent-nox now. Its qBittorrent, but headless! Runs all the time. Just use a web ui to access it. I can even run a reverse proxy and access it from afar!

I'll never understand the FOSS mentality of "There's already a quality project out there with active development and most of the user-share. Perfect, so I'll utilize my off-time to create my own inferior competitor and fragment the users instead of contribute to the existing one".

I mean, I get it if the existing project maintainers start acting with shady interests - the threat of the fork can be a powerful tool. But it seems like many of these alt projects do it right out of the gate. Meanwhile, it took linux desktop how long to get a functional wifi driver out of the box??

has anyone ever heard of mottix?

I find it great, has a nice UI and it gets the job done.

also transmission is an S tier

I switched from Transmission to qBittorrent a while ago, and I have some regrets: mainly that the qBittorrent web ui is extremely hard to navigate on mobile. Everything is tiny, and I can't zoom in and navigate around the page without right-click menus popping up