I'm surprised that this wasn't already the case. Model files are massive and torrents (the technology) are a good way to get those files around. It also provides another way to verify which models are popular based on the number of seeders, instead of relying solely on what each website claims is popular.

I feel like the biggest issue is the way they include all files for each model in a single torrent. Realistically I think most of the time people are going to want to download a single quantization (like Q4 which is like the 1080p sweet spot for most models), not all of them, and I think most of the time torrents are going to end up in that horrible partial-seeding state where most sources only seed a few of the files.

Lol good luck finding seeders

A what now?

I don't know what this is

this site is confusing. i hit the little arrow by the file to download the .torrent file. it downloads the entire model from HF in 3 seconds and blows through a gigabyte of my phones data. wtf.
luckily that outcome was not too horrible. and i actually got a good GGUF.

Nice! I've been wondering why this wasn't the default distribution mode. Big ass files that a lot of people want seem like a good candidate for torrenting. I'll have to check it out.