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Don't download a 129MB file automatically #113

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adamvoss opened this issue Jan 29, 2017 · 1 comment
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Don't download a 129MB file automatically #113

adamvoss opened this issue Jan 29, 2017 · 1 comment

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@adamvoss
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Original report of issue was at webtorrent/webtorrent#815

In my case I am on a usage-caped satellite Internet connection. It is rather hard to visit the website to learn about webtorrent because of the data that will be consumed while I try to read the webpage.

The suggestions proposed by @franciscop on the original issue were:

  • Download a 2-3MB file. However this is not so cool as you cannot see the video itself, but much better than using the user's data plan.
  • Detect the device/screen and choose to download only on desktop. However this is probably error-phrone.
  • Add a "stop" button (or a "start" one) so the visitors can toggle the torrent download at will.

Note: I am not a fan of the second one because there are many cases (such as mine) where you do not want the automatic download on a desktop either.

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feross commented Jan 29, 2017

We added the second approach. There is an explicit "start" button if your window size is small enough. I suggest using that. Sorry that there's not a better solution.

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