Seems this post has not really interested many people so far, really it's no big surprise, considering how little most people care about being targed by the **aa's and thier filesharing clients disrupted by isp's.

Still with the current i2phex version, the network is still around and there are some users.

i2p itself has undergone major changes recently and is scheduled to go through even more in the near future.

Things on the i2p network are rather unclean at that moment, many sites and services are down, there is a new irc network running over it.

i2phex also has changed some, it's website is currently down and it's developer is offline, probably just on vacation though. However i2phex users forge onwards regardless. i2phex now has it's own forum on planetpeer.de and it seems there are some people dedicated to providing services and distributions for it.

I did notice more documentation for i2phex has appeared lately, just the usual user guides, etc.

Also worth noting is this recent post on the i2p forums.

If that doesn't spark a flame war, well I don't know what will.

Anyways recently some people have mentioned something troubling, seems the gnutella networks are having trouble? Sources disappearing, slow speeds, various client applications having even more problems than usual, wonder what is going on? Are people finally getting too fed up with them and just leaving? Have they simply moved on to bittorrent?

Given the state of other filesharing networks and clients, it probably isn't such a bad idea to use i2phex. Taking everything into consideration, i2phex actually comes out ahead of most other filesharing applications.

So far, I have found nothing that would not make me want to use it. Nobody has presented a strong and well informed case against it.

At the very worst, it's still better than using exceem, kazaa and the rest.