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.
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.
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.
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?
Afaik the person who wrote winmx is now publishing fopnu and darkmx. So it’s still around, just in a modern iteration.
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?
