On 3/4/07, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
I recommended against that on the basis of the frequent and incessant advocacy of BitTorrent as a cure all for our bandwidth related issues, and that we couldn't have a better fit for BitTorrent than this application.
Wouldn't offering it as both be a good way to see what users will prefer?
Users would probably prefer the http/ftp download link option. It's simple, easy and fast.. at least it is so long as we have enough bandwidth to support it.
I don't believe that anyone thinks otherwise. But user preference is irrelevant if the cost of bandwidth causes us to choose to not make such things available.
The open questions are: 1) can we continue to support large files with our existing model and 2) what alternative exist and what are their limitations.
A lot of the bittorrent software is fairly buggy, ... after the time I spent on it today I would have much rather forgone the BT software and worked on something else... but I do think that it is important that we gain some concrete and direct experience with it.