I am the (only) developer behind magnetico[0], the (first?) fully-decentralised BitTorrent search engine suite that you can host yourself. It is intended to replace public trackers, so to speak.
It was featured on Hacker News and TorrentFreak:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14018877
https://torrentfreak.com/magnetico-a-personal-torrent-search-engine-that-cant-be-shut-down-170409/
I believe that the project serves an actual need, that is, decentralising the only central component of the BitTorrent stack: trackers. I have been developing the project for the past 3 years and I know that it still has lots of room for improvement, but the development came to a halt as I burnt out. I no longer have the will to work on this project, simple as that.
It consists of ~4.2k lines of Go, and ~500 lines of very basic JS.
I would be grateful if anyone here is interested in forking magnetico. I am happy to answer your questions and help with onboarding too.
Bora
[0] https://github.com/boramalper/magnetico/
Try to get user. Users will became poweruser. Powerusers will become contributors. [You can try also with first-good-issue, but I don't like it too much.]
In the last submission there was some complains about the greedy strategy to connect to other nodes. Have you fixed it?