The main reason for this is I'm finding it harder and harder to find things these days. Looking for large files is a particular problem as I often need to do a restart and many aren't well distributed (only one or two nodes sharing them).

Gnucleus gives up doing a re-search and goes into the "unable to connect" state in under 20 seconds! Often the same results take minutes to apear in a search window. I really wish Gnucleus kept trying the new connection until it found something like an open search window does.

Also while I know it increases traffic, I wish it would retry existing nodes say every 15 to 20 minutes until it gets at least one result. In that time the landscape can really change, and I don't think that would create too much extra load (especially as I have to do it manually anyway).

I've also noticed some nodes are returning very few search results (often less than 1% of total packets), and after time sometime I migrate towards pocket corners of the gnet rather than towards the center. That's what made me think some sort of traffic based preferencing might help.