From what I've seen so far, the few private trackers who're currently not whitelisting Tixati have just one main reserve: the ease with which Tixati can spoof its peer ID.

Now, I'm not trying to be the devil's advocate here, and I agree that is a silly, and even ignorant reason not to whitelist a client. First because it can be done with each and every other client available in the market, with a higher or lower degree of difficulty (and a higher degree of difficulty won't pose a problem to the sort of advanced user prone to do it, ANYWAY). Secondly, because there seems to be much confusion regarding exactly what peer ID is, what it does, and what can or can't used for among the less knowledgeable of said few private tracker's admins and high ranking users.

However, for the sake of being practical, and since it's in everyone's best interest that such a great client as Tixati be made available to more people and their favorite trackers, my suggestion would be that the peer ID field be removed from the GUI, so that using such an option can still be achieved by the advanced user (again, as in all other existing clients in the market) by different means such as configuration files or advanced option panels, scripting or whatnot, but just not so easily as in the present versions.

It should be taken into account while pondering the matter, that as we know a custom peer ID isn't a failproof method to report a different client to a tracker, that knowledgeable and experienced admins will spot the emulation, and this limitation can also harm innocent and honest users by getting their accounts banned as a result, even when they're strictly speaking not doing anything wrong. Advanced users know this, but clueless people who'd just happily fill in that peer ID in the options panel without knowing what they're doing, don't.

My point of view for this suggestion is that, if such a simple (and ultimately irrelevant for those who matter) alteration would serve to appease the existential doubts of those last few (but well known) above mentioned private tracker admins, and if by that we could have them FINALLY whitelist this great client, it would be in everyone's best interest.

Now, by doing this, it wouldn't mean Tixati's devs are bowing to anything or anyone. In fact, it's more or less the other way around: what we have here is an adult, who knows best, arguing with a noisy child, and at some point the adult just comes to terms with practicality, and for its sake, it gives the child some candy, the child then stops screaming, everything solved and everyone's happy.

I feel this could make a significant difference to determine Tixati's degree of success among bittorrent users and sites in the forthcoming years, with the emergence of the 2.x series.

Signed, an avid and enthusiastic Tixati user.

Appeasement makes things worse.
(btw Tixati 2.0 and onwards have been much better, without dealing with silly requests and people)

Appeasement free Tixati is preferred.

I do not agree, the problem is not the way in which Tixati work, and personal,
I do not want to see this kind of thing disappear this program, this is what makes its strength.
But I would like to add the numbers for the pieces of a download in the columns of the tree view.
sorry,
I'm not very good in English,
from France with love.