Agreed. The network has *serious* problems right now. We urgently need the new load limiting/balancing system, but mrogers informs me that it will take 6 weeks to finish the simulations, or 2 weeks to write quick and dirty simulations.
What should we do? There is a certain amount that can be done without such radical changes, such as the recent changes to load balancing, but there are limits. On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 03:08:38PM -0700, Tracy R Reed wrote: > Ian Clarke wrote: > >Our key barriers to adoption right now are usability ones, and the > >simple reality is that the lack of an opennet solution is excluding > > Another barrier is that there is currently very little content in 0.7. > There is huge turnover among new nodes because among the ones who do get > it running and get a few refs and can actually use freenet there is > nothing to cause them to stick around. I would be contributing something > but at insert rates of 500 bytes per second up to (on a very good day) > 2k per second it just isn't worth the hassle. > > I notice that frost ships with freenet now. It looks to me like frost > hasn't changed much at all in 3 years and people tell me that file > inserts and downloads are simply broken in frost. I have managed to pull > down a few small jpg's but nothing else and have been unable to insert > even a small file with frost. I was actually rather surprised to see > frost shipping with freenet because last I heard frost was considered a > DoS on the network. A lot of people come to freenet expecting file > sharing and they aren't getting it so they move on. > > The network does seem to be pretty good at finding whatever content is > there as I have been able to surf a number of freesites and always get > the data. I think once I had to retry a second time but otherwise it > comes right down. > > -- > Tracy R Reed http://ultraviolet.org > A: Because we read from top to bottom, left to right > Q: Why should I start my reply below the quoted text > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- 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/tech/attachments/20060710/2fffa6f3/attachment.pgp>
