Has the torrent function actually been worked in yet, as promised?
Not yet - the Dev is still building the groundwork for the torrent functionality. I wouldn't expect full torrent functionality until the 2nd hard fork around February.
I'm guessing the release in the next week will have a number of "under the hood" changes and improvements.
yeah, pretty much gave up on this one a while back. if it wasn't ready to deploy with at least a hint of the promised features then why post it, lol.
It's not as easy to just build in a simple torrent client into the software - any developer can do that. But to tie it into a token payment system for sharing files as well as implementing anonymity features makes it about 100 times more difficult.
Any one with a technical / development can relate and knows it takes time. Everybody else just has a royal whinge. That's life in the crypto dev space....