FR: add downloading option

[laur89]

Do I understand correctly joal is to be used for torrents that have actually been downloaded already? getDownloaded() value is hard-coded to 0 in TorrentSeedStats, so I'm guessing we never report any download. Which means it looks extremely suspicious if we'd feed a new torrent to joal without having downloaded it first, as it would report uploads, but no download.

If my assumption is correct, then it would be nice to add download announcements as well.

Unrelated, but perhaps it'd make sense to enable discussions in github repo for questions that don't really fit into issues section?

[anthonyraymond]

Hey :)

I'm thinking about adding this feature to the rework. It's a good idea to add it, but it will require another layer that i don't have time to add to the java version => "state persistence", you'll need to know if the torrent has been downloaded (fully or what percentage) when you restart JOAL from a previous version.

As it's not the usual practice, it is legit to get the content of the torrent (from a friend of yours or whatever) and start seeding it from your computer. It such case you'll start producing upload for non downloaded torrent.
Of course if you never download any torrents beforehand you may start to look suspicous.

That's the reason why i recommend downloading in your real torrent client before starting to seed in JOAL.

Openning the "discussions" tab is planned but i'll wait for the new version to be deployed. I'll replace the cotent of this repository with the new golang code once done.