Joal-Desktop (Windows / Linux / Mac)

[anthony-joal]

Everything seems to be fine, but it needs proxy so bad.

You may use a VPN on your computer if you want to hide yourself behind it. I just can't embed everything into JOAL x) or it will soon be as complicated to use as the old RatioMaster. I want it simple as possible.
But if you cares about a VPN, you may be interested in the joal-server version, it will be easier to setup a vpn on a server than on your daily computer.

[Mon]

I get your point, but cheating on trackers is never been easy, you always have to make sure that everything is working properly and safe, so that'd be nice adding some extra features, maybe separating them in "settings" tab(just like MRatio's "beginner","advanced" and "expert" interface settings).
Any way, keep up the good work!

p.s.
I wish it was lightweight tho.

[anon]

Everything seems to be fine, but it needs proxy so bad.

You can set an HTTP proxy by passing command-line parameters to the Java virtual machine (see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/120797). Not the same as full-fledged proxy support, but may help.

There are also parameters to control heap and memory usage, if you want to experiment With that said, RAM is there to be used. As long as there aren't any leaks and JOAL plays nice with other programs, it can use 40, 400 or 4000 MB.

[anthony-joal]

I get your point, but cheating on trackers is never been easy, you always have to make sure that everything is working properly and safe, so that'd be nice adding some extra features, maybe separating them in "settings" tab(just like MRatio's "beginner","advanced" and "expert" interface settings).
Any way, keep up the good work!

p.s.
I wish it was lightweight tho.

I get your point, but for most of the user out there, the best way to be safe is to not have too many option to play with ^^.
I wanted joal to be plug and play, and i've reached what i think is the "maximum" number of acceptable configuration that my grandma could understand.

As anon stated there is way to achieve what you want, which i consider are "advanced uses cases" and thus, require to get out of the plugandplay that Joal-Desktop may offer. If you want to setup a proxy you might use joal-server (with the WebUI), so you could control the JVM arguments.
I agree that this is more complicated to do it this way rather than writing values into textboxes, but for most peoples, these textboxes would looks obscure and maybe suspicious.

I believed that an advanced use requires an advanced knowledges, it forces us to understand what's behind the hood rather than simply click on a button :).

About the lightweight, honestly I wish it was too ^^, but i doubt that i could do better.

[anthony-joal]

Version 1.1.0 has been released.
If you are on Windows just restart JoalDesktop to update it.
If you are on Linux or Mac download it here.

[Changes]

• Greatly improved how speed is spread among torrents, to look like more legit
• Client files list is now ordered semanticaly (ordered by client version)
• Linux version does not auto update anymore as this was not working as intended.
• Decreased CPU/RAM consumption
• Reduced useless logs and made logging messages more concise

[Fix]

• Fixed a bug with public tracker files
• Fix some non criticals bugs
• Fix a visual Glitch in WebUi (about the announce timer tooltip)

[Client]

• uTorrent utorrent 3.5.3_44428
• bittorrent 7.10.3_44429

[Vevonico123]

When I add a torrent with seeders and no leechers, while having the option "Keep seeding torrents even with no peers" unchecked, it will automatically delete my torrent after 2-3 minutes

:/

[anthony-joal]

Have you restarted joal after modifing the config?

[Vevonico123]

I did that, yeah.

Ticking in the box, it won't seed when there are no peers too.

[anthony-joal]

Can you send me an email at : joal.contact@gmail.com

and tell me which OS you are on? I'll tell you what to do next.

[Vevonico123]

I did yesterday, what do I do next?

[anthony-joal]

I'm answering you by mail right now

[Spidtest]

Do you think we could change this by adding bad hashes? Randomly generated maybe up to 2% depending on torrent size? 1 GB may have like 8 mb failed hashes, 200 GB may have round 34 MB has failed

In JavaScript (math.Random)?

(I'm talking in terms of failing to download?)

[anthony-joal]

I'm sorry but i'm not sure what you're asking about. JOAL is not downloading anything it just "seed". Where do you want to add random download error?

[anon]

Many clients report the amount of downloaded data that failed a hash check and was discarded separate from real download, e.g. the "corrupt" parameter in uTorrent and qBittorrent. Spidtest and me were talking about this in another thread (see http://www.sb-innovation.de/showthread.php?p=349527 onwards) and he pointed out that always reporting 0 corrupt bytes, as all mods and tools are currently hardcoded to do, could be a detection vector (if an unlikely one). So the ability to report a non-zero amount of corrupt data would look more realistic in comparison.

With that said, if that is implemented, care must be taken to see exactly how clients report corrupt data (byte per byte, multiple of piece size or multiple of 16384) and do it identically, lest this feature increase your chances of getting caught.

[anthony-joal]

Ok, i see.
Sadly, this would required a huge refactor to be implemented properly, i don't think that i would ever make it.