It followed in the footsteps of Napster and limewire as a P2P client, primarily for sharing music. Unlike its predecessors, it survived basically unchanged for the last decades, basically just flying under the radar.

I still recommend it, though I think Nicotine+ is a better client (its a different frontend for the same network). It's not necessarily better than torrenting, just different. It also has chatrooms which I used to quite enjoy as a youngster back in the early 2000s.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Thanks for the recommendation!

Where did the name Nicotine come from?

I was in a geeky mood and was browsing http://www.bash.org’s QDB. I stumbled across this quote:

so tempting to release a product called ‘nicotine’ and wait for the patches. then i would have a reason to only apply one patch a day. otherwise, i’m going against medical advise.

So I thought what the hell and bluntly stole etc’s idea.

[–] herrcaptain@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Well that solves that mystery, which I've idly wondered about but not enough to look it up. Thanks!

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 6 months ago

it's on the homepage lol

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Nicotine+ is a better client because it's more actively developed. The official Soulseek client hasn't had an update in 3 years.

[–] nekothegamer@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago

the Soulseek client actually gets updated, it's that the updates are not published on the homepage but on the forum

https://groups.google.com/g/soulseek-discussion/c/E69FDwm1puw/m/FGOazKBoAAAJ