Gnutella network is definitely still active, athough not even close to the level it once was. It has plenty of drawbacks but one of the few advantages over torrents is that it doesn’t need trackers. Just enough clients online to connect with one another.
You can even still find Shareaza with a quick search.
Feel like I’ve been doing this too long to run P2P clients on my desktop. Any good projects to let you self-host something to interact with the gnutella network on an external server? Something with a nice webui?
Not that I know of. The shift to Bittorrent after Limewire’s demise pretty much killed new Gnutella client development. There are a few desktop clients still under “active maintenance” but most of them haven’t been updated in ages.
Gnutella network is definitely still active, athough not even close to the level it once was. It has plenty of drawbacks but one of the few advantages over torrents is that it doesn’t need trackers. Just enough clients online to connect with one another.
You can even still find Shareaza with a quick search.
I’ve been hsaring about Gnutella, but have never heard of anyone actually using it. Is it still a thing? How do one get started with it?
Torrents don’t need trackers either. They can work with just DHT.
Yeah, but unless you know the hash of a file, you can’t look it up. The gnutella network can find files by name.
https://bitmagnet.io/
Feel like I’ve been doing this too long to run P2P clients on my desktop. Any good projects to let you self-host something to interact with the gnutella network on an external server? Something with a nice webui?
Something like Qbittorrent-Nox or rTorrent/ruTorrent for Gnutella would be great.
Not that I know of. The shift to Bittorrent after Limewire’s demise pretty much killed new Gnutella client development. There are a few desktop clients still under “active maintenance” but most of them haven’t been updated in ages.