* Chris Carlin <ccarlin at physics.tamu.edu> [2006-10-16 12:48:36]: > >* Ian Clarke <ian at locut.us> [2006-10-16 09:26:59]: > >>How about using color coding? Make connections that haven't been > >>active for over a week red, make other ones a less concerning black - > >>or something like that. > >> > >>Ian. > > > >It's already like that... connections that haven't been active for over > >a week are already displayed in red. > >In fact, I would like to stop people from removing connections, not > >encourage them to do so ;) > > What about encouraging them to leave the connection by indicating that > Freenet still considers it active even if the user does not?
Well connections get prunned because they are offline. My concern is about connections wich get prunned when they are temporary offline (transitent nodes). > Aren't you primarily worried about users closing good connections? I don't mind. I'm worried about transitent nodes not finding stable entry points on the network. > Perhaps if you reassured the user that the connection was actually good he'd > be less > likely to remove it haphazardly. Hmm that would be a lie... of course transitent nodes connections aren't good nor profitable for a "reliable" node ; At least they aren't as good. > Yes it may be redundant, and perhaps you'd end up with every connection > either red or green, but maybe the bit of reassurance would work. > > ~Chris I'm 100% sure that if we don't enforce it, most people won't agree with connecting to transitent nodes... There is no gain for them. On the other hand, if we don't find a way for transitent nodes to "hook" on the main network reliably, we will see them pushing for stupid things like opennet ;) I think that finding connections once and maintaining them is manageable for anyone. I understand people who get frustrated because all their connections are gone when they are back from WE. Hence I would like to do something for them. -- NextGen$. "On peut ob??r aux lois en souhaitant qu'elles changent, comme on sert ? la guerre en souhaitant la paix." Merleau Ponty - L'?loge de la philosophie -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20061016/eb521bdc/attachment.pgp>
