Many of the old file-sharing networks are still around and actively in use. MuWire has a lot of interesting books and recordings. EMule is a good place to find music, including obscure remixes. Gnutella is mostly porn, including child porn that’s so open I feel like it might be part of a law enforcement operation.
Retroshare seems like a p2p Facebook rather than a file-sharing network. I’ve always wanted to get into it, but I don’t know anyone else using it.
MuWire? I thought that was dead. The main dev blew a gasket over something and archived it. I see it’s out of archival now, but I do wonder what brought him back.
I didn’t expect eMule and Gnutella to still be active, but probably didn’t know because I’m on Linux and their clients are Windows only. Others have pointed out linux builds that I somehow hadn’t found until now.
The dev shut down the github page in 2023 and later came back and re-activated it in 2024. Development is not overly active but there have been commits since then.
When I got into Retroshare, it was all filesharing, but that was several years ago.
To my knowledge, both eMule and DC++ are still active, but I think private trackers have become the more dominant technology for file sharing.
They aren’t being actively developed are they? And do they are windows only too, last time I checked.
aMule is also available on Linux.
Mldonkey have been updated on August 2024 and it is available on gnu/linux, mac and windows.
What’s the eMule network like these days?
My main use is movies, shows and books. And it is perfectly fine.
What’s the availability for movies and shows like?
Recent stuff? FHD/4K? Availability of more niche content? I am just curious. I used to eMule way back when, but I eventually switched to torrent since they seemed to have offered better retention of older/niche content and high availability of new content.
Well usually FHD, good availability of recent and old stuff, there is a good community of French, Italian and Spanish stuff with English sub. Probably if you prefer 4k and above, torrent is better.
there is a good community of French, Italian and Spanish stuff with English sub
That’s good. But you’d have to know what you are looking for (that’s what I remember from using eMule back in the day), right?
I don’t mind SD if the content is good. Just wondering what is available.
Cheers!
People still use the eMule client but nowadays the community version is the version that gets some updates
https://www.emule-project.com/home/perl/general.cgi?l=1&rm=download
https://github.com/irwir/eMule/releases/
But technically any eMule / KAD compatible client can connect to the servers and download/upload to users there e.g. Mldonkey is another client being used.
It’s been a few years since I was last active on there but back then there was still a healthy amount of users and activity, I suspect it’s still going strong.
As of last I was aware, eMule was still kicking (pun intended)
Afaik the person who wrote winmx is now publishing fopnu and darkmx. So it’s still around, just in a modern iteration.
OMG thank you so much. I didn’t know the devs were still active. I used to use winmx all the time.
Yup. The Tixati torrent client is also developed by the same dev team (mainly Kevin Hearn I believe).
I think that the timeline was WinMX, then Tixati, then Fopnu, then DarkMX. (Tixati / Fopnu / DarkMX are still actively developed and updated)
anyone here ever use Winny (the Japanese predecessor?/copycat? of winmx) or “Share” (also Japanese p2p)?
any news about their developers?
