Champagne time--gnutella hits 1 meeeellion hosts

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Congrats to all--gnutella hit the million hosts mark sometime in the past few hours. See the Rolling Host count at http://www.limewire.com/english/content/netsize.shtml

You devs must be pleased to see all your work being used so successfully.

Thanks guys--from one happy user
 
No!!! More users = more attention from RIAA et al. One million is a sweet spot, let's stay there (I'm mi-serious about that). I, for one, feel it's a victory of gnutella over G2 and over Gnet haters. Go Gnutella, may innovation wins over copying and mediocrity!

Ciao
 
Heheheh.

I won't worry--http://www.slyck.com/ will downplay this milestone (see below), and bury the news praising some other network.

Besides--there's too much legitimate content being distributed via gnutella

This really reinforces gnutella's posiiton of being open, collaborative, and sustainable: it's a nice balance between a commercial and opensource project. Even the g2 conflicts seem to have dissipated away.
 
Last week download.com downloads (not representative of maket share at all and omitting Kazaa, eMule and other P2P not referring to download.com when you dl them)

1) 455 447 LW windows english
2) 338 785 Bearshare
3) 329 123 iMesh
4) 198 378 eDonkey
5) 171 509 Morpheus
6) 149 388 Warez
7) 115 503 Ares Galaxy
8) 101 452 BitComet
9) 91 700 LW windows international
10) 44 504 LW mac os x

5 of them are connecting to Gnet, 1 of those 5 is a leech (guess who?)
 
So because GnucDNA had a bug that wasn't in Morpheus that caused it not to respond to Limewire, Morpheus is a leech client? Correct me if I'm wrong, but you found that issue in a version of GnucDNA that was still in the testing phase (ie. not in Morpheus). I don't remember you posting about any other specific transfer issues, but you still just assert Morpheus leeches...
 
Well, a while ago, when there still was a substantial number of Morpheus hosts in the search horizon of any LimeWire user, the amount of results coming from Morpheus hosts, or rather the lack thereof, was quite obvious. I think Greg Bildson dubbed it the "Morpheus black hole", but today it is almost impossible to tell whether Morpheus works or not from the perspective of a LimeWire user. If you don't see any Morpheus results, it may be because there are too few Morpheus hosts in your horizon.
 
Great response by Gregorio and others to Slyk's grumpy note about reaching 1M.
The summary Slyk used is "A perceived unimpressive network displays impressive numbers" and the article continued the same style.

I laughed at this description of Gnutella

He even quotes Greg Bildson's point that "the count is still understated," which was also announced on the GDF earlier

Gregorio and others do a better job of setting the record and attitude straight in the comments.

Slyk doesn't note how factors like open protocol, open source, multiplatform, multilanguage and the collaborative nature of the Gnutella Development Group have led to a sustainable model of p2p development. Buggy clients have to compete with free and better clients on gnutella that are better developed, or die.

I've been reading Slyk for a couple of years now, and wondered why its gnutella section was so out-dated and misleading. Looks like it's personal, and will continue.

laughingstock?
ridiculed?
unimpressive?

Never let the facts get in the way of a story.
 
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