[Zimouille]

Hello,

I just wanted to know if a new release is planned.
It's now near 4 years that the offical emule wasn't upgraded.
At some point I think this kill the emule community.

Without any offical release poeple think that emule is dead and gently slide to xTorrent.
This result in less p2p files, less availibility etc.

I'm sure that improvement was made (outside mods) but for lambda users (mods) are not the solution.
We need them (even with low ID) to make files available and Emule alive for the next 10 years.

It's the best p2p client I tested but it's going to be very, very slow at the date of today when we look to other P2P clients.

Upgrading the app time to time would be a very good idea from my point of view even if it still has some bugs. That's why we do upgrade no?

Cheers.
Make me happy ;o)
Z

[Some Support]

Yes, there is a new release planed. If you can't wait, check this thread: http://forum.emule-p...howtopic=156991

[Zimouille]

Thanks.

I saw this thread but it was 8 months ago... that's why I ask.

i'm wondering which prevents to publish a new release after so many years.

Outside that. Thanks to all the developers for the time they spend and efforts!

[Meuh6879]

why do you change a perfect thing ?
emule work ... very very good.

[RejZoR]

No it doesn't. They should ditch the silly servers all together and focus on making KAD only and primary way of connnection and finding sources. If something hasn't moved anywhere for several years it will remain there. In the past, outdated and with less users every day... unfortunately. I loved eMule and i still use kMule here and there because it's basically what i want from eMule to become. uTorrent is not this popular because no one has touched it for several years, it's popular because it gets things done and it's constantly being updated and improved. Anyone remembers pre-DHT era? Well, eMule is still sort of stuck there...

[Zangune]

RejZoR, on 14 March 2014 - 07:58 PM, said:

They should ditch the silly servers all together and focus on making KAD only and primary way of connnection and finding sources

Laughable. Servers work. Again.

[fox88]

RejZoR, on 14 March 2014 - 09:58 PM, said:

uTorrent is not this popular because no one has touched it for several years

Not even close; the development never stopped.
As you might check at their site, latest stable version was released on February 20, 2014 and next version is in beta.

This post has been edited by fox88: 15 March 2014 - 11:05 PM

[Some Support]

fox88, on 15 March 2014 - 11:05 PM, said:

RejZoR, on 14 March 2014 - 09:58 PM, said:

uTorrent is not this popular because no one has touched it for several years

Not even close; the development never stopped.
As you might check at their site, latest stable version was released on February 20, 2014 and next version is in beta.

I think you missed one "not" in his sentence. But I disagree, Bittorrent is not popular because it is updated regulary (I actually think the client got worse with all the advertisment and junk, but thats just my oppinion), it is popular because it is based on a different concept which turns out to be more aksed for by most users.

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Anyone remembers pre-DHT era? Well, eMule is still sort of stuck there...

Im not sure what you want to say with that. eMule was besides Overnet one of the first filesharing clients to have a DHT and its implementation is still more advanced than Bittorrents (but again, because different concepts have diffent needs).

However in the end the question is not wether eMule should be more often updated or not. The answer is simple: Sure it would be nice. Although imho it does still work fine and looks pretty nice, updates and new features are always a good thing to have. But currently there is just not enough "development power" available for frequent updates. You might remember that Bittorrent is by now a multi-million dollar company with hired devs who work all day on it. eMule is not.

[RejZoR]

No. uTorrent is popular because it's easy to use and just works. eMule is just way too fiddly with bunch of stuff people will never understand, unnecessarely overcomplicated with servers, KAD and usual non functionality of both due to again, settings. People try it, find out they can't do anything with it and they move on. Not everyone are geeks, but the userbase demands everyone, even those who aren't into tweaking stuff every day. Because they may also be a download source and more of those we have, the better. A simple and reasonable logic.

[fox88]

Some Support, on 16 March 2014 - 02:55 AM, said:

I think you missed one "not" in his sentence.

I read the discussed phrase again, and found it was not properly constructed.

Some Support, on 16 March 2014 - 02:55 AM, said:

But I disagree, Bittorrent is not popular because it is updated regulary

What is Bittorrent here, a protocol or a program? The origianl phrase was about uTorrent.
I believe it is still the most popular client even though identitfication data is often hidden nowadays.

Some Support, on 16 March 2014 - 02:55 AM, said:

(I actually think the client got worse with all the advertisment and junk, but thats just my oppinion)

I guess uTorrent as a free program did get worse.
About a year ago downloaded executable which used to be one small packed file, installed unrequested software.
Since that I would never use it. There are open source alternatives like qBittorrent.

This post has been edited by fox88: 16 March 2014 - 07:48 AM

[Zimouille]

Hi

Agree with qBittorent. It's the one I use outside emule.

In my original post I wrote: xtorrent. "X" was for the multitude of torrent programs available versus our lovely emule.

Reading posts I need some updates...

Fox88: "As you might check at their site, latest stable version was released on February 20, 2014 and next version is in beta."

- Which site, where did you find the info? Maybe I'm blind.

Some support:

- I understand. So, question.
Are you alone to develop the new release?
Honestly, when I look to the emule project website I have the feeling that it was abandoned.

Finaly, ;o)

You (we) should think like 98% of the users. (Facebook generation...)

I heard about emule so I do a search and... WHAT?!? Last release is from 2010! I'm sure that nobody is using it anymore. It's dead.
Back to my Google homepage to do a new search on another P2P client. A new release may boost downloads and maybe new joiners.

Ok. It's a simple interpretation but, do you think that there is a lot of users between ~15-25 years using emule?
I'm near 40 (very old monkey I know) but, I believe that the most part of emule users are in the range of 30 or more.

Users community is decreasing gently.

BTW I'm not a coder. Unfortunately.
Just doing some basic things but a versatile IT since over 20 years.
If I can help in any way LMK.

Appreciate your devotion.
Cheers
Z

[fox88]

Zimouille, on 18 April 2014 - 02:08 AM, said:

In my original post I wrote: xtorrent. "X" was for the multitude of torrent programs available

Try to google for xtorrent.

Zimouille, on 18 April 2014 - 02:08 AM, said:

Which site, where did you find the info? Maybe I'm blind.

I was writing about uTorrent, hence the site was utorrent.com

[DJ_MELERIX]

Some Support, on 15 March 2014 - 07:55 PM, said:

But currently there is just not enough "development power" available for frequent updates.

moving eMule to GIT could solve that, for example in GitHub.

[Zimouille]

fox88, on 18 April 2014 - 08:25 AM, said:

Zimouille, on 18 April 2014 - 02:08 AM, said:

In my original post I wrote: xtorrent. "X" was for the multitude of torrent programs available

Try to google for xtorrent.

Zimouille, on 18 April 2014 - 02:08 AM, said:

Which site, where did you find the info? Maybe I'm blind.

I was writing about uTorrent, hence the site was utorrent.com

Oups!

Never google it.

And I understand why I should wear glasses ;o)

Best
Z

[Zimouille]

Zimouille, on 19 April 2014 - 11:57 PM, said:

RejZoR, on 16 March 2014 - 08:31 AM, said:

No. uTorrent is popular because it's easy to use and just works. eMule is just way too fiddly with bunch of stuff people will never understand, unnecessarely overcomplicated with servers, KAD and usual non functionality of both due to again, settings. People try it, find out they can't do anything with it and they move on. Not everyone are geeks, but the userbase demands everyone, even those who aren't into tweaking stuff every day. Because they may also be a download source and more of those we have, the better. A simple and reasonable logic.

Fully agree but somehow necessary (servers, kad).

No need to be a geek to use it but, depends on country, ISP & router are the huge problem for non-geek poeple.

Recent Torrent files have a good speed without doing any setup due to the large amount of seeders/leechers after sometime you get nothing.

Emule is more like a library versus torrent but without contributor it won't survive long time.

Voila
Z

[Zimouille]

One little tip for next release...

Option to export setup and to keep config, cryptkey etc. would be nice.

I restaged many times my PC and unfortunately missed to backup them 2 times...

My fault. I know. :-(