BiglyBT: Open source torrent app with plugins, decentralized ratings/comments, and "swarm search" that crawls the DHT to find torrents without a tracker/search site

spiritedpause@lemmy-u6723.vm.elestio.app to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com – 115 points –
GitHub - BiglySoftware/BiglyBT: Feature-filled Bittorrent client based on the Azureus open source project
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Compared to the memory footprint of web browsers, a Java BT app is pretty tame on modern computers these days. Nor do you have to faff around with installing JRE manually. It just works.

Resource usage is pretty good tho and it can handle hundreds of torrents with ease.