Modern (public) torrent usage is fairly awkward: Find the active Pirate Bay link, avoid the malware popups, search, turn on a VPN. Knowing how to find the pirate bay, having a torrent client, and knowing to pay for a VPN are hurdles that make Netflix style streaming worth it
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If you have a VPN, know how to find torrents, and know how to download them, then the main friction is just ease of use which isn't that bad IMO, the confusing-to-learn aspect of piracy today vs. just using Spotify/Netflix is a big reason why BitTorrent usage may be dropping
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When someone struggle to use a smart phone for the first time in 2018, I think what you're seeing is the years of not learning little UX patterns. How is someone supposed to know that, to kill an app, they go to the home screen, swipe up, press, hold, then hit the red x button?
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I wish I could watch people try BitTorrent for the 1st time. I remember watching a friend try The Pirate Bay, download a .torrent file, and say "wow that was fast!" as if that was the movie he wanted I laughed for a sec then thought "wait how are people supposed to learn this??"
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A big part of "easy to learn" is similarity to stuff people have seen before (thus it doesn't make sense to talk about "intuitive" UI in the abstract) idea: BT was only viable because classic P2P came first; if BT was first and came from nowhere then it would've made 0 sense
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Exactly. You need the reference point of in-client p2p search in order to understand that BitTorrent is similar but you search somewhere else. Idea of build up heuristics seems like a critical point for building products. Also see "Milo Criterion" by
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this looks great, thanks for the link
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