I built it to make torrent technology more accessible to the masses. We’re still actively building it and we even have a slick desktop app that uses the same engine for streaming.
WebTorrent also powers https://wormhole.app an end-to-end encrypted file sending service that I built with my friend jhiesey.
I was looking for something just like this a few days ago since Firefox Send was shitcanned by Mozilla. I ended up using send-anywhere, but Wormhole looks so much better. I wish it showed up in my Google results when I needed it.
Is Wormhole p2p? If so, why the 10 GB limit? If it’s not p2p, why are you storing user data on servers (even if it’s E2E encrypted)?
According to the explanation on the website, it appears that the 10GB limit only applies if you make the optional choice to also store a copy of the file on Wormhole's servers, to keep the file available after you close your browser.
Where did you find that? The tooltip I saw says they store files up to 5 GB on their servers, but it doesn’t appear to give you a choice. It also says that for files larger than 5 GB, it will use p2p (that answers one of my previous questions, I guess), but it still says “up to 10 GB.”
Why would there be a 10 GB limitation for p2p transfers if data is not being stored remotely?
I got WebTorrent running on iOS via play.js (Node, rather than Safari, so it supports native sockets etc.). Might be the first non-jailbroken torrent client for iOS :) Very nice project, and works extremely well!
I built it to make torrent technology more accessible to the masses. We’re still actively building it and we even have a slick desktop app that uses the same engine for streaming.
WebTorrent also powers https://wormhole.app an end-to-end encrypted file sending service that I built with my friend jhiesey.