Current design issues / open questions

[rnestler]

This is just a brain dump for me regarding some open points of the project.

Magnet links

Currently we create them with just the "Exact Topic" / BitTorrent info hash. While this works (which is quite awesome) we may consider to include:

• Display Name
• eXact Length
• Address TRacker

Probably we also want to add support for BitTorrent info hash v2 (BTMH)

Displaying torrents in the terminal

Currently we only show:

• Seeders / Leechers
• Name
• magnet URL

It may be interesting to add

• Source (pirate-bay, yts, ...)
• size (in human readable form) (Add size to torrent attributes #168)
• ...

Also it is not clear how to best format the output to be usable. As long as the magnet links are clickable it should be OK though.

Interactive mode

Currently we collect all torrents and then display them. This is a bit inefficient, since the most interesting results may already be available while we still wait for a slower source (For example: I mostly disable l337x, since it is rather slow).

I experimented a long time ago with a GTK frontend (#10), which would work asynchronously. We could also use a TUI which would display results in a table interactively.