I'm very new to this, so maybe I'm doing something wrong. Whenever I click a magnet link, it starts the torrent in qBit but it never gets past "downloading metadata." I know there are seeders because I have no issues torrenting the file through another client, even at the same time that qBit is "downloading metadata." I want to figure this out as it's by far the cleanest UI and has no ads.

Another issue I'm having, with all clients, that might be related is that I cannot seem to seed anything. I'm new to this so I'm not familiar how long that would normally take, but to test it I torrented and am now seeding something with 1000 peers and only 38 seeders, and not one has connected to me yet. I have now been seeding for over 15 minutes, and tried seeding two files last night for over an hour without any connections.

A search in this sub saw someone who had the same problem, but never had it resolved.