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arne_bab April 16th, 2008 09:21 AM

Evalutation of the poll on the Phex website
 
I thought it's time to have a look at the poll and think about its implications.

First a look at the "6 months" poll, the smaller features.

We have 2 most requested items:
- Firewall to Firewall transfer.
- Phex as Daemon, usable without GUI.

One or the other has been requested by more than 40% of the visitors (each by about 21%).

A good deal later comes UPnP support, standing mostly alone (14.4% of our visitors).

These first three, requested by every second visitor, are technical issues - even though "deamon mode" is user interaction, it's more concerned with the internals of Phex than with how users see it.

After those come two convenience features: Running multimedia files from inside Phex and automatic activation of a downloaded update. Together they were requested by about every fifth user.

After those come seperate features: Net-Zip, metadata readout and bandwidth scheduling, together requested by 17% of our visitors.

Almost no importance to our visitors (together only 4.6% or 24 votes) had switching look and feel, virtual library directories and subscription management (the last requested only 2 times).


As summary, about half the voters were most interested in improved networking or the poweruser feature "Phex as deamon".

The other half split among multiple items, with convenience ranging above look and feel.

Subscription management was of almost no importance (I'm not sure if I should take this as a hint, that out users just aren't interested in things like Magma lists).



Now to the larger features, the "2 years" poll.

This one is far easier to evaluate.

We have a clear winner: i2p support, requested by more than every second visitor.

The other half of the votes (more exactly: 43.6%) were distributed mostly equally among Credence, Kademlia, Non-blocking IO and the integration of a free file release service, in that order, with the file release service as least requested one.


For me, this means: i2p is the most important one, and the others are "just choose what we think important" - with the file release service being a good deal better off, than subscription management in the previous poll.



All together suggests, that out users are quite technical adept (I guessed that), and that they are most interested in i2p.

And i2p is already on its way (a binary release is imminent).

From what I see in svn commits, Gregor is working on the deamon stuff, so our development runs well in par with the wishes of our users.


Interesting to me is, that our users don't seem much concerned with cosmetics (at least they don't vote for them), but they seem concerned with convenience, even though still far less than with "give us the best possible network".

For my work on the website this says "feature the networking strength of Phex" and don't fret too much over the looks - but keep convenience around the corner. "Phex is powerful, and it doesn't disturb you (with unexpected behaviour or a high load)".

The convenience votes suggest, that introducing a careful automatic requerying (again) might be in the users interests. As I remember from LimeWire on the GDF "One automatic query per hour is OK" (that's a total of 1 query, not one per download).


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