It followed in the footsteps of Napster and limewire as a P2P client, primarily for sharing music. Unlike its predecessors, it survived basically unchanged for the last decades, basically just flying under the radar.
I still recommend it, though I think Nicotine+ is a better client (its a different frontend for the same network). It’s not necessarily better than torrenting, just different. It also has chatrooms which I used to quite enjoy as a youngster back in the early 2000s.
I was in a geeky mood and was browsing http://www.bash.org’s QDB.
I stumbled across this quote:
<etc> so tempting to release a product called ‘nicotine’ and wait for the patches.
<etc> then i would have a reason to only apply one patch a day. otherwise, i’m going against medical advise.
So I thought what the hell and bluntly stole etc’s idea.
It followed in the footsteps of Napster and limewire as a P2P client, primarily for sharing music. Unlike its predecessors, it survived basically unchanged for the last decades, basically just flying under the radar.
I still recommend it, though I think Nicotine+ is a better client (its a different frontend for the same network). It’s not necessarily better than torrenting, just different. It also has chatrooms which I used to quite enjoy as a youngster back in the early 2000s.
Nicotine+ is a better client because it’s more actively developed. The official Soulseek client hasn’t had an update in 3 years.
the Soulseek client actually gets updated, it’s that the updates are not published on the homepage but on the forum
https://groups.google.com/g/soulseek-discussion/c/E69FDwm1puw/m/FGOazKBoAAAJ
Thanks for the recommendation!
Well that solves that mystery, which I’ve idly wondered about but not enough to look it up. Thanks!
it’s on the homepage lol