chihaya vs build-your-own-bittorrent

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chihaya		build-your-own-bittorrent
	Project
4	Mentions	4
1,413	Stars	23
0.8%	Growth	-
1.9	Activity	9.2
11 months ago	Latest Commit	3 days ago
Go	Language	C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

chihaya

Posts with mentions or reviews of chihaya. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-19.

Build Your Own BitTorrent
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Oct 2023
Looking on how to start a private torrent tracker
2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 2 May 2021
Running my own public torrent tracker
3 projects | /r/trackers | 4 Apr 2021

i run three public torrent tracers, i use chihaya. usually handling around 6m torrents and ~9-10m peers combined.
Nyaa.si's github repository disabled after DMCA takedown notice was filed by MPA.
4 projects | /r/trackers | 19 Jan 2021

Actually, it was just the source code the site itself. They did run a tracker, but that used this.

build-your-own-bittorrent

Posts with mentions or reviews of build-your-own-bittorrent. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-03.

Show HN: Rqbit – bittorent CLI and desktop app written in Rust
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Dec 2023

Nice!
I started doing this in Zig (roughly following the codecrafters course on the topic to start out) but I ran out of steam a week or so ago. It's good to see someone building something they want for themselves.
https://app.codecrafters.io/courses/bittorrent/overview
Build Your Own BitTorrent
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Oct 2023

https://github.com/codecrafters-io/build-your-own-bittorrent...

What are some alternatives?

When comparing chihaya and build-your-own-bittorrent you can also consider the following projects:

torrent - Full-featured BitTorrent client package and utilities

Yomato - Yet One More App for TOrrents.

mika - Modern bittorrent tracker designed for private site use with multiple storage backends

rain - 🌧 BitTorrent client and library in Go

nyaa - Bittorrent software for cats

rqbit - A bittorrent client in Rust

Luminance

build-your-own-x - Master programming by recreating your favorite technologies from scratch.

kraken - P2P Docker registry capable of distributing TBs of data in seconds

network

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linx-server - Self-hosted file/code/media sharing website. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Powers https://put.icu