BarbecueCowboy

Maybe not an eli5, but lots of reasons.

There’s no stable, consistently updating client that everyone agrees on, the real ‘emule’ client hasn’t been updated in over a decade. Once you get past that hurdle, the setup is also a lot more cumbersome than other file sharing options. The network also has kind of a bad reputation because there’s not a great way to see if you can trust a file until you’re finished downloading it and people definitely do take advantage of that.

Maybe technically and in general sometimes, but not for most at the moment.

It’s a shame, I was really pulling for ‘RIBWORLD’

We haven’t heard from our developer/lead maintainer/near entirety of the staff for about a month, so it’s kind of hard to say. If they are working on something in the backend, it doesn’t feel like they care enough to inform the community about it.

A refurbished tiny/mini/micro PC will use more power in terms of sheer numbers, but the cost is still so small on them that it’s really not worth considering for most.

I mean, you’re in the right place then my friend, because you’re not going to subscribe to much of anything that has an international presence.

It kinda sucks when you’re in one of the ‘high price’ countries, but there’s lot of countries who wouldn’t have it at all if they had to pay our prices.

I think a lot of us have had the same thoughts looking around kbin.

We all appreciate the work Ernest has done, but we really need someone to dedicate some time to picking out a team to help him, but it seems like that’s not happening for whatever reason. I know there’s a few other people in the codeberg, but I believe there was a falling out there. What we really need in addition to that though is just generic admins.

As someone who used to be a Java programmer, I can’t make any sense of that statement.

Having maintained Linux systems for over a decade, I instantly distrust anyone who claims they understand Linux regardless of what they say next.