On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 01:31:51PM -0500, Evan Daniel wrote: > (Copied from my latest flog post, since toad asked me to send a > summary here. If you want to read more about Freenet stats, I suggest > you read my other posts. > freenet:u...@gjw6stjzoz4oag-pqoxip5nk11udqzorozd4jld42ac,BYyqgAtc9p0JGbJ~18XU6mtO9ChnBZdf~ttCn48FV7s,AQACAAE/flog/13/ > )
Nice work on the statistics! > Obviously, these classifications are very rough. I'd say a 1:2:2 > ratio is probably a reasonable guess, but it could still be rather far > off. I need to take data more regularly and for a longer period of > time before any serious conclusions can be drawn. However, I am > comfortable saying the following: Freenet has at least 4000 > semi-regular or regular users (probably meaningfully more). Freenet > probably has between 8000 and 12000 total users (the upper bound I'm > far less certain of -- if a lot of people only run Freenet for an hour > or two per day, it could be far higher). At most, about a third of > users run their node 24/7; the actual number is probably well under > that. One suggestion could also be to compare this to the statistics that are possible to count in central network locations: download servers and connections to seednodes (well, looking at one seednode is enough...). Could relating such counts to these stats could maybe make control them and make them more fine-grained? It could appear that it would be spying on users, but anyone who is paranoid should not run opennet anyway... Cheers, /V. > I think this has several practical implications. First, we need to be > working on data retention more, with a focus on retention despite > low-uptime nodes. (See bugs 3495, 3514 for a start on that. 2933 > should also help. 3637/3639 and the like address more general routing > issues; that should help as well.) Second, we need to figure out how > to get these low-uptime nodes back onto the network, *and connected > usefully*, so that the data they have can be found (and to improve the > performance for such users). (See 3583 and related bugs for one > approach.) And, finally, we have the general problem of getting (and > keeping!) more users. > > Evan Daniel > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > [email protected] > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
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