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To be clear, this is just a joke, and I don't look down on direct downloading. It absolutely has its place, and sometimes I do it myself if it's just faster to download a file directly. Torrenting is just so much more convenient, though, especially when using Jackett's manual search.

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[–] Faresh@lemmy.ml 44 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Today I learned that some torrent clients provide a built-in torrent search engine.

[–] Nitrate55@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

See, I was hoping this meme would inform at least one person that Qbittorrent comes with an in-built search engine. That's how I found out about it in the first place, through a meme lol

[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

what how? I've been using qbittorrent for a while and I never noticed that

[–] StellarTabi@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use to use qbtorrent search, but it stopped working a few years ago.

[–] Nitrate55@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Huh, it works on my end. I tested it just the other day.

[–] razieltakato@lemmy.eco.br 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Today I learned that people actually use this. I always thought it didn't work right.

[–] thedrivingcrooner@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Limewire was like that. It was heavily abused and unsafe to find shit with but it was like living in the future.

[–] MeatballFlag@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe because I didn't know what I was doing back then but that was the only way I used Limewire

[–] thedrivingcrooner@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah it was both a torrent manager and search engine. What we didn't know was what came from where.