[haunter]

Early days torrent scene ran on proprietary adware clients like BitTorrent itself, µTorrent, and BitComet but nowadays open source clients are more popular and recommended by most trackers. I'm on a pretty big private tracker and almost everyone (+95%) is using qBittorrent, Transmission, or rTorrent.

Though Vuze was also one of the earliest clients and it's also open source for some reasons it never really became popular. Maybe because it's a Java client?

[poikroequ]

While it's been known as Vuze for a long time now, it was originally known as Azureus. It was pretty popular at one point. Then uTorrent came out which was super lightweight in comparison, so it quickly gained popularity... at least before it became riddled with adware.

Java clients were typically very bloated on older PCs, and Vuze was no exception.

[ilt]

Wasn't Azuerus the one with 3d views of seeds and peers? It was crazy to see that in a torrent client at the time.. I remember it getting very bloated and rebranded to Vuze before I left it for other smaller and faster clients

[hnthr_w_y]

> Though Vuze was also one of the earliest clients and it's also open source for some reasons it never really became popular. Maybe because it's a Java client?

Funny story there.

Vuze had an addon/plugin system of sorts. Rather popular addons were the ones that allowed you to 'fake upload'.

Vuze didn't have this built-in or anything, but it just made it easier.

For that reason basically any and every version was banned from the reputable trackers of the day, private, obviously.

For the users of public trackers, this is obviously irrelevant but that basically killed it right there and then, in time.

[rsayers]

I used Vuze for a bit back in the day, it was a resource hog on whatever I was running it on. I think I mostly stuck with uTorrent until switching to the open source alternatives.

I actually use all three you mentioned in different contexts.

[commercialnix]

I used Azureus, before it was renamed Vuze, in early 2003. All my friends had Azureus too, maybe because Macintoshes were what most of our parents (and thus we) had at the time. Azureus was what we all knew.