Just wanted to check in and ask around to see if anybody is actually doing anything with the watchme network. The data doesn't seem to be getting collected, the scripts on hawk fail every once in a while and we go days without actually collecting any data.
The watchme network doesn't seem to have much traffic on it - there hasn't exactly been a proliferation of freesites, frost traffic, FMB traffic, or anything that would signify that the network is getting used for anything at all. I was originally pretty gung-ho about the watchme network, but given its size, and particularly the fact that we're not collecting data and even when data IS being collected, it doesn't seem to be being analyzed in any meaningful way, I'm really starting to wonder what the purpose of the watchme network is. I'm not complaining, I'm just asking - the database was put together, we have nifty front end, data collection, and graphing scripts, but what has come out of the watchme network? What can we say we know about freenet or the way the network works that we only know because of the watchme network? What purpose is it currently serving? I'm running a watchme node and a regular node, and I'm asking these questions because I'm wondering if it wouldn't make more sense for me to just switch my watchme node back over to the main network, which seems to be working quite nicely. (Or at least much better than it was when I left the main network for the watchme network a few months back) -- David Allen
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