A bloated client, that is.
I upgraded to 3.0 today, after releasing my mod pack. First thing I noticed is that they're turning the client into some shitty search-and-click downloader for newbies, just like Azureus did with Vuze. Buttons hidden by default, apps, "find content", things that new users may find helpful or handy, but are only an annoyance to those of us who have been torrenting for years and already know where to get our stuff. Then there's this streaming crap. If I want to watch a video I'm downloading, I'll wait until it finishes and then use my media player. Not to mention this search bar that can't be removed, and how simply right-clicking a category doesn't select all its associated torrents like it used to (you have to click first, then do that).
They're only adding useless stuff.
Also, the very first uTorrent version was around 70kB long. In the 1.x.x branches, the executable's size was somewhere in the 200 kilobytes region. Now it's 600kB and only going up. It's still much lighter when compared against other clients, but it could be even smaller if this newbie crap wasn't there.
uTorrent was a
very good client back in the day. Small, fast, it did what it had to do, and the feature list satisfied both newcomers and experienced torrents alike. Now... they're just screwing it up. Staying on an older version (1.8.5, 2.2.1) is an option, but they will eventually age and become obsolete or vulnerable to attacks.
Discuss. Do you dislike the new interface and features as well? What will uT's future be if this keeps on getting worse? And would it be happening if BT Inc. hadn't bought the client? Why is every change coders and Web developers do to their programs/Web sites for the worst?
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