On Sunday 20 July 2003 12:49 pm, Todd Walton wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, Tom Kaitchuck wrote:
> > When browsing Freenet just after the date rollover can be very annoying.
> > It is almost unusable for a period of time. Many DBR don't get their
> > sites out soon enough, or don't have enough time to distribute them
> > before people start requesting the new versions. This is in part due to
> > variations in different peoples clocks. However the fact that a request
> > failed because the content is not yet widely distributed is not helped by
> > the fact that it is going to be in the failure table of various nodes for
> > some time.
> >
> > Ways this could be improved from the users prospective:
> > 1. Warn users to make sure their date/time is set correctly.
>
> Sounds sensible. We should anyway.
>
> > 2. Tell site owners to insert before the last minute.
>
> But then you run into the problem of inserting too early, which leads to
> bits dropping out of Freenet before they're requested. (I'm not sure
> *how* much that would be a problem.)
Data will not, not, NOT drop out in just a few hours. Right?
> Really, I don't think the problem you describe is really that much of a
> problem. Do people really sit crouched over their mouse, trigger finger
> at the ready, waiting for the rollover so that they can get the new day's
> worth of DBR sites?
Yes.
> The TUK idea, or some other more flexible updating scheme, would probably
> moot this issue.
I would like it if the indices still used DBR so I would know when to check
for them to update. If I can't get it, I can force yesterday's.
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