> I am not sure that the current node discovery machanisms will be sufficient > without the crutch of the inform.php mechanism. Someone a while back did > mention that they noticed a significant reduction in activity once their > node had fallen off the end of the inform.php list - and it continued to > decrease. This would suggest an over-reliance on inform.php.
The problem is that most nodes are people just trying it out for a few minutes, finding that's it's alpha, and then doing something else. So most activity is generated from inform.php. It would probably be better for the network if we made a single permanent node for casual users to connect to. It could be preconfigured in nodes.config to be used. This might seem _more_ centralized than inform.php, but in both cases everything relies on a single address, whether it's a Freenet address or a URL. We have to have some central location for vaguely interested people to use. People running actual permanent nodes can get addresses either via the (now less frequently updated and more reliable) inform.php script, or any other mechanism, such as the mailing list or the newsgroup or the IRC channel. _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
