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For years I've actually been looking for a client that can handle seeding 500+ files and not just completely crap itself all the time. uTorrent seems to be a bit 'unsafe' and full of ads, deluge's web interface regularly falls over. What options are there out there right now?

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I've been a happy Transmission user for a while now.

  - nice variety of clients/platforms

  - webui isn't completely terrible

  - works well in daemon mode

  - haven't encountered perf issues seeding 2k+ torrents/~5TB data

  - supports modern features (DHT, PEX, magnets)

Yes, Transmission is the most stable client I've ever used (Win or Linux), but like so may others, don't run out of disk space, or you're in for a major hassle rebuilding your index.

Only problem is Transmission uses its own core, and as a whole, core + UI it doesn't seems to be getting anymore development.

Which libtorrent just had its 1.2 released that has lots of changes.

I only use qbittorrent for years. Open source, free, crossplatform. There's not a single thing I miss about uTorrent.

I'm running rutorrent on a shitty shared server at its at 700 torrents right now. Its slow but its working. The JS ui is actually quite snappy but it takes a long time to get a reply from the backend so if you add a new torrent it takes about 30 seconds to show up.

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