Reimplementation of previously removed feature

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Tokar
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Reimplementation of previously removed feature

Post by Tokar » 2003-02-05 01:56

There used to be the ability to highlight every hub in the public hub listing and join all of them at the click of a button. This feature was only available in version 0.163, which i use from time to time just to be able to use this feature.

I would like to see this return in the new versions.

sarf
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Re: Reimplementation of previously removed feature

Post by sarf » 2003-02-05 10:15

Tokar wrote:There used to be the ability to highlight every hub in the public hub listing and join all of them at the click of a button. This feature was only available in version 0.163, which i use from time to time just to be able to use this feature.

I would like to see this return in the new versions.

This feature was removed since it is a feature that very few users have any need to use. Most hubs has an upper limit to the number of hubs you are allowed to be connected to simultaneously, and even the most generous often has a number below 25. This means that unless you have a very small number of hubs in your public hub list you would get kicked from most of them.
It is a "leecher" feature since mostly leechers use it.
If you wish to re-enable this feature in the code, send me a PM and I'll give you a few pointers. Due to the way DC++ works currently (some kind of busy-loop in the hub connection code) it will hang itself for several minutes if you try to connect to a high enough number of hubs. Due to the way the searching works (this might be changed in 0.23 with the search speedup) you would also get a DC++ that eats all CPU-time it can get its hands on.

Sarf
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