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Re:Deploying a global, private CDN by hwillis on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @02:22PM (#15134623)
A little notification does seem like the best idea to me. Obviously it would need to be zero-effort, way unobtrusive, and nice and reassuring. "Hey- on unmetered connections, this page may balance network load with your unused bandwidth. You shouldn't notice any difference in speed! [Learn More][Edgemesh CDN]" Maybe even the slightly more aggressive "Your unused bandwidth is helping to speed up other people's connections!" Pop a neat little box in the lower right hand corner on the first visit, and have it minimize/disappear after a couple seconds.

I think it's a little skeevy to have it be completely silent. That doesn't mean it has to be super loud though.

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Re:Deploying a global, private CDN by jloveless on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @09:45PM (#15137539)
We've added this to 1.7.2 [1] That will roll into production tomorrow evening.

Thanks for all the feedback HN community!

[1] https://github.com/edgemesh/edgemesh/releases

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Re:Deploying a global, private CDN by hwillis on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @10:12PM (#15137658)
Man, you guys are awesome and endlessly tolerant of the slightly fanatical hyperbole being directed at you.
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Re:Deploying a global, private CDN by aaronsmulktis on Thursday August 31, 2017 @07:40PM (#15144955)
Although i am not at all affiliated w Edgemesh as a company, I can tell you (first/second? hand) the personality and good-naturedness in this team is through the roof.

Plus its just a killer product made by killer devs, pretty sure Spotify does P2P cache-sharing too btw.

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