Lament on "problems with 5.0"

[ar1sxante5]

Local:Europe/Greece

Ok first off, after installing 5.0 two things were obviously off:
-No internet. Like opening qbittorent killed my internet connection. This had been sort of an issue with the last couple of updates, but instead of "killing" my whole connection, it was like a 'slow start' for qbittorrent.

So (with the last couple of updates before 5.0) once I opened browser etc etc and then qbittorrent, qbittorent didn't seem to 'connect'. internet was ok, I could browse around, speed was fine. But in qbittorrent if I searched for something, started the download, no seeds or peers appeared. If I left qbittorrent open and forgotten about it, like ok maybe its slow start, indeed, after a while the torrent apparently found seeds/peers and had downloaded the whole thing.

But now with 5.0, both seemed dead, or a slow start?

I can only confirm a slow start after changing the port number which was a weird port choice, not mine, 20xxx . Never had seen it pick a port starting with 2.
Anyway picked something else starting with 4 i think, and I got a slow start.
Got a magnet link to download something, it still pending.
But I do have internet. So far.

Obviously the other thing as others have reported is the search plugins.
Can't load them.
Did we lose Limetorrents site btw?
Anyway, i will have to dig into that, the search plugin scripts, because I tried manual downloading and saving the .txt scripts as .py, but it still can't read them. Maybe I have to remove the ones already in the list?

Windows is messed up as ever. In fact worse, its like mobile-style and desktop-style got married and had the spawn of the devil as a child.
And forget about figuring out whats what if you no longer have an internet connection. Like if you pull the ethernet cable, I wouldn't be surprised if you could no longer go to Windows Settings, coz it will get stuck trying to get some information off the web. Anyway I hope I am wrong about this re Windows, its really worrying.

Hope qbittorrent gets sorted
be well one and all
Do not bother answering this. Its a lament. Not an ask for help. People who might read this from qbittorrent might find it of use, but beyond that its just what it is: one users experience and personal interpretation

PS: I can understand that sites that we bypass with the search plugin, might have an issue with bypassing their ads/commercials/site-pop-ups, still there is no way forward in my mind unless we share. NEtflix can't stock the whole freeking database of every movie ever made. They have to be selective. A lot of the old stuff have expired copyrights anyway, so all this will get lost unless we keep them and share them between us. There has to be a way everyone is happy and get rid of the pirating issues as well. I almost subscribed to Netflix, but once I realised I am paying them for what *they* allow me to watch, I was like no. If I am getting off sharing, I need to have it replaced with something equal. I do not mind paying the 5 or 15 for Netflix. I was more worried all the torrent engines would die off and one day, I would be stuck with what is a glorified TV-station, i.e. restricted choice.

[S.H.Bouwhuis]

Some tips:

1.
If you choose a port, make sure it is also open in your router and/or modem. Else, you are not (easily) connectable from the outside.

2.
Make sure DHT and PeX is on, so that you can receive peers and seeds from other sources than the original tracker.

3.
If possible, try to get v2 torrents, because they can share identical files even when the complete torrent is not identical. Even a single stupid text file stating 'this was shared through site xyz.txt' will make all the files completely unsharable with other torrents.

4.
Try to go back to v4.6.7, because that version works really well (I also won't switch for a few months until v5 actually works).

5.
Share your settings here so that the community can check whether some combination of settings is causing you trouble.