[Release] OfflineBay v2 - Open source and No more Java dependency

[techtac]

As i promised, OfflineBay 2.0 with no Java dependency is here. I took the past few months go on a completely new journey of learning Electron and developing OfflineBay 2.0. Also in the favor of majority i decided to make this project open-source. So no more conspiracies and no more complaints. I hope a lot more developers could get involved in this now since it's written in Javascript. So hop on.... 

PLEASE WATCH THE FOLLOWING VIDEO BEFORE YOU START USING OFFLINEBAY



If you're not familiar with OfflineBay at all, watch this video too. Also you can tune in on the previous conversations on OfflineBay by heading over to this thread.

What's new in OfflineBay 2.0?

• Programming language switched to Javascript (NodeJS) from Java
  
• Functionality stabilized on all platforms
  
• GUI Built on Electron framework (HTML + CSS + Js)
  
• Splash screen
  
• Smoother animations
  
• DB switched to NoSQL (NeDB)
  
• Made Open-source
  
• Gzip dump import support
  
• 85% Faster importing
  
• Drag and Drop importing
  
• Remote dump update support
  
• Auto dump update support
  
• System notifications support
  
• System tray support
  
• 15% Faster searching
  
• Instant search feature
  
• Search autocomplete support
  
• Fixed table sorting
  
• Faster filtering
  
• Faster Seeds/Peers discovery
  
• DHT support for scraping
  
• Customizable tracker fetching URL
  
• Best trackers selection for magnet links
  
• Theming support
  
• Customizable configurations (Preferences window)
  
• Configurations import/export support
  
• Google search button
  
• Windows shortcut helper
  
• Logging to file support
  

Download OfflineBay - Downloads for all platforms (Documentation is available there. Read them before downloading)


 Support OfflineBay (and me)

Involvement as a contributor by adding a few lines of code, fixing a bug, respond to issues, testing etc… would be one of the most helpful methods you could support the project. If you’re not a programmer but a creative person, you could definitely get involved in the GUI part of OfflineBay.
If you have some spare coins laying around, you could throw some this way to buy me a coffee…

• BTC: 12d9qz6bzL6tiB4oeX595oEo9ENMTEzF5y
  
• ETH: 0xe84CBc4B4C64c6800619942172F93dcfb1030972
  
• BCH: qqguu77ylq7p72m02ksv78jyzy86vtk6jqtrrc40r3
  

Since i’m also a video creator on YouTube, you can give me some support by Subscribing to my channel and sharing some of my videos.


 Themes

Since OfflineBay now support themes you can create your own themes and share them with the community. Also you can download any theme from there.

Themes repository (Documentation is available there)

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A big thanks go to this clueless sucker for the challenge. It was one of the biggest motivations. 



Happy torrenting..

[jerrysmatrix]

With this new release, I want to be the first to say that I am excited, and I look forward to contributing in developing this project. Especially since it's now in my language.

[techtac]

With this new release, I want to be the first to say that I am excited, and I look forward to contributing in developing this project. Especially since it's now in my language.

Glad to hear. Start right away. 

[zerodave]

I shall amend the front page of offlinebay.com to include this thread.

[techtac]

I shall amend the front page of offlinebay.com to include this thread.

Just checked. Looks good. One thing, word 'depreciated' should be changed to 'deprecated'. Also it'll be good if you can switch the site to OfflineBay v2 default theme color palette.

[zerodave]

I shall amend the front page of offlinebay.com to include this thread.

Just checked. Looks good. One thing, word 'depreciated' should be changed to 'deprecated'. Also it'll be good if you can switch the site to OfflineBay v2 default theme color palette.

Yeah will do when I get on me computer tomorrow as am out of town and just on me phone.

[contrail]

I would suggest changing the contact button to redirect to your GitHub or SuprBay page that way people can contact you in a meaningful way.

[techtac]

I would suggest changing the contact button to redirect to your GitHub or SuprBay page that way people can contact you in a meaningful way.

I was thinking the same thing. I only connected it to YT because they had messaging. They just announced that they're getting rid of the feature. 

[jerrysmatrix]

Why isn't the instant search recommended? Was there some bug you encountered with it? It seems to me that instant search should be the only option.

Edit:
[RFC] Tidy up search.js

[techtac]

Why isn't the instant search recommended? Was there some bug you encountered with it? It seems to me that instant search should be the only option.

Edit:
[RFC] Tidy up search.js

Lemme review the PR ASAP. What i found is that sometimes instant could break the clusterize process. Feel free to do some test cases. If you can trace it let's do a PR, make the feature stable and take out the not recommended part.