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Read #17663 |
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So basically no one wants to actually fix an issue with the standard. That's really not a very good reason, when the standard has logic problems. Sometimes strictly sticking 100% to a faulty standard isn't the answer. Sometimes you have to innovate and maybe have your product in a position to influence the next draft of the standard. In #17663, I never did see any links to actual user discussions re: negative reactions to patching the issue. What I DID see there is an honest attempt by multiple devs to clear up a very confusing issue that a LOT of us hate about your interface, and it just seems to get rebuffed by a vague reference to nebulous user negativity, followed by blaming it on the standard (everybody I know personally that uses qBittorrent - and I asked them today - doesn't like the status quo). Which is it, again? I get it, I'm not part of your dev team - I don't know the BTS discussions you guys might have had re: the issue. All I can go by is what I found when I searched for it in the Discussions section and what you linked for me from the Issue Tracker. Yet what I have to go by just isn't satisfactory to me. In a perfect world, I'd like to see you guys maybe do something like a qBittorrent specific RFC to your user-base and actually try to get some hard data showing what the every-day users of your client actually think of the issue. I'm willing to bet (with ~85% certainty) that you'd get a response that contradicts your statement here. And I'd honestly like to know if my I'm totally off-base. In that eventuality, I'd happily eat crow. |
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Confusing usage of key torrenting terms.
Okay I'm experiencing a bit of confusion here..
I think I've figured out that the definitions for PEERS, SEEDS, and LEECHES aren't the same for the "Torrent List" pane and the "Tracker List" pane. Is this correct, or am I missing something?
It appears that in the "Torrent List" pane the number listed for PEERS(A1) is representative of the number of clients that I'm uploading to, and the number for SEEDS(A2) is representative of the number of clients that I'm downloading from.
In the "Tracker List" pane, the number for PEERS(B1) seems to be the sum of the SEEDS(B2) and LEECHES(B3) columns. In this pane, PEERS(B1) is the same thing as SEEDS(A2) in the "Torrent List". And SEEDS(B2) is also part of the entry in the SEEDS(A2) in the "Torrent List". Yet here, LEECHES(B3) is listing numbers that seems to be tied to the PEERS(A1) entry above.
Are there reasons for these incongruous and, quit frankly, very confusing differences in the definitions for the same terms in the qBittorrent application? For the life of me, I cannot come up with any logical reasoning behind this confusion.
I've been a systems analyst for over 20 years; to me, a data-point that defines a key terminology Term should never then define a completely different terminolgy Term. That would mean that the definition/data-point for SEEDS would (must) be the same in every view/pane/writeup for the application, just as the definitions/data-points for PEERS and LEECHES would (must) be consistent in regards to every view/pane/writeup for the app.
I'm just trying to understand the reasoning behind something that effectively presents a barrier to adoption for newer or less tech-savy end-users of your product.
(and if this comes across as harsh, it isn't intended that way - it's honestly just me trying to understand if I'm missing something)
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