Draft:BiglyBT

BiglyBT is a BitTorrent client written in Java forked from Vuze. It is free and open-source software and features no ads.

Features
BiglyBT has most of the features of Vuze, its predecessor. However, it lacks Vuze's premium and proprietary features and features the developers considered bloat, including DVD burning, gaming promotions, the video-sharing content network, and the installer's advertisements. BiglyBT's features include swarm merging, downloading the same file from different torrents; limit download/upload speeds by tag, peer-set (e.g. country), network (public or I2P), and individual peer; support for the I2P network; remote control with any Android app that supports Transmission's RPC protocol; compatibility with WebTorrent;. Many of these features are included via bundled plugins.

History
While development of Vuze ground to a halt in early 2017, with no new releases or commits being made since April, featured content becoming inaccessible, and users reporting outdated antivirus definitions. The two main developers left the project and focused their efforts on a fork called BiglyBT, which removed Vuze’s premium and proprietary features such as DVD burning, gaming promotions, the video-sharing content network, and the installer's advertisements.

In April 2020, TorrentFreak named BiglyBT the tenth popular BitTorrent client with 0.3% of the market share.

In September 2020, BiglyBT was the first BitTorrent client to implement support version 2 of the BitTorrent protocol, which features improved checksums, including per-file hashes that allows one to download the same file from different torrents. libtorrent, a library used by popular clients such as qBittorrent and µTorrent Web but not BiglyBT, added it a few weeks prior, but clients that use the library had yet to implement the functionality as of BiglyBT's update.