After thinking more about my last question I have become self aware that its probably not possible to chart the number of users because the network is completely decentralized. It would still be awesome to see.
After reading through this thread I have become very curious as to the strength of the network by Geographical location. Does anyone on this forum have the ability to produce a pie chart showing the number of Winmx users by country? I know it could not be accurate because the network is always changing, but if it gave a rough ideal that would be very interesting to see.
the unfinished 3.99a is the only one that 'works' with the 'new' winmx's (and most of its functions dont work) ... the last fully functional bendmx worked with 3.31 ...
and i was thinking more along the lines of a shim... a seperate program... attached neither to mx or the patch but riding between patch and cache server... tho granted there would be no ui... or at least user friendly ui... there either since its not attached to mx...
The advantage of building on BendMX instead of the patch is that with Bend, the user would have a nice GUI where they can change settings as-well as other fun stuff. Most of what you would need for a patch is already in there and it wouldn't have to be a new version of BendMX either as you could just take what you need instead of having a big-ish source to prowl with functions that aren't needed and may cause compatibility problems.
if you are talking about modding the patch as well wouldnt it be easier to just add a 'user entries' method to the blocklisting function instead of riding on a very much unfinished bendmx?
If someone had the time such a program could build on the back of the bad IP filter functionality of the last bendmx version 3.99a3 which would save any developer a lot of time but more code would need to be added to duplicate some portions of the community patch as trying to run two third party programs alongside winmx seems to end in disaster and thus some of the patch features would need to be included in the build, not beginners work but not beyond the scope of many community coders.
I hate those uploaders that never start anything but seem to have everything. All they do is f**k up net traffic. Is there a way to ignore them like you ignore downloaders? Ignoring them doesn't help for uploading because winmx still tries to dl from them and then it times out usually causing other dl's to time out as well.
If this is not possible, can someone change/add code to winmx that provides this function?
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