Champagne time--gnutella hits 1 meeeellion hosts
 

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). :D 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?)

:D

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...

I dont remember him posting anything either, but he's a troll you see, yet calls everyone else just that....

Risky, I also Pmed you the bug reports I sent to Swabby. GnucDNA 1.1.0.8 in morph450 leeches, reread my PM :rolleyes:

Troll (Vampmon): :o

leave guys. I have nothing to do with Morpheus (OS X user), but am getting increasingly tired of your trolls. et voilà is the only one here I trust, so the more you post flames, the less reputable Morpheus seems.

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.

Trap_Jaw: :rolleyes:
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=29812

Ciao

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 GnutellaHe 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. :p

et voilà,
that bug is fairly nasty, indeed :rolleyes:. You win, GnucDNA is a piece of crap, no need to be diplomatic about it. Still, it doesn't matter, LimeWire does a well enough job to keep GnucDNA hosts out of your search horizon. (I wish only that LW had accepted my vendor filter patch, so we could have kept them confined to their own small subnet and cut all connections to it ;-) ).

Seriously, GnucDNA & Morpheus are already down, no need to keep kicking them and you will have a hard time convincing the two or three people that admit to liking (or even working for) Morpheus, how bad their product is. As much as I like a good Morpheus-bashing, it's getting a little old. I prefer concentrating on discussing how to improve Gnutella over debating to which extent Morpheus is responsible that LimeWire's counter hasn't reached 1 million a couple of months earlier.