Picotorrent: Seeding a million torrents

[vktr]

As the title says - what if a user wants to seed a million torrents? How do you get a million torrents into PicoTorrent? Where do you even find a million torrents to seed?

Lowering the bar a bit - how about 1000 torrents? 10 000? There are no hard limits on any of this in PicoTorrent, but I don't think the application will handle it very well. Just trying to add that many torrents will make the Open file dialog fail with error 3003. So that's the first issue - making it possible to even get thousands of torrents into PicoTorrent.

• [x] Make the open file dialog handle handle a large number of files. (#979)

The next issue is that our current Add torrent dialog does not scale very well to more than a few torrent files. It has a clunky combo box to select which torrent to set properties on. This does not work very well when you scale up, so I'm thinking we need to repurpose our existing Add torrent dialog to support single torrents only. This will make that dialog easier to use, and if the user opens say < 5 torrents, we will show a matching number of dialogs.

• [x] Rewrite the Add torrent dialog to support a single torrent only. Open multiple dialogs when selecting multiple torrents. (#999)

That lays us up for the bigger issue, which is the new Add multiple torrents dialog. It should be focused on bulk operations, since when adding lots of torrents you probably want to change properties for them many at once. So the bulk operations dialog should probably show all torrent files in a list view which can be filtered, sorted and edited.

• [ ] Add a Add multiple torrents dialog that supports bulk editing of torrents.

[xE0F9]

Some real 🌶️ stuff.

[TechnoGreg]

That's what I call a 🌶️ issue. Lots of work to do here.

[mutt3x]

So, you choose perpetual suffering... respect.

[vktr]

So, you choose perpetual suffering... respect.

@mutt3x I'm just the enabler - I'm not advocating it 😄

[Dyras]

I'm sure there are dozens of us just waiting to be able to seed our 999k torrents. I expect this to be the highest of priorities for the foreseeable future!

[AGenchev]

I'm sure there are dozens of us just waiting to be able to seed our 999k torrents. I expect this to be the highest of priorities for the foreseeable future!

Hmm unless you want part of them in the jail, this theirs priority should wait for another feature - seeding via the I2P DHT anonymous encrypted network.

[xE0F9]

Maybe that could be implemented during @vktr's stream tomorrow: https://youtu.be/fyhvyW5PtJo.