Few questions for to improve perfomance of nntpchan

[adamzend]

Hi again.
These are not a typical /important issues bu only few questions from Polish users of Nntpchan:

1. Feed menu:
   What does mean Connection reader/stream (not authenticated) ? (second option is "authenticated" but have never seen it)

2. Why sometimes all of posts are not synchronized between servers ?
   Our collegae inform that waiting time on his server was 3 days and posts were not synchronized at all.
   I had the same situation many times and one way was to restart nntpchan server (and Tor if used).
   What is a reason of not completed synchronization ?

3.Front page:
Normally we have front page with list of boards. We have thematic board and would like to see it as catalog of posts like catalog-xxx.xxx.xxx.html. How to do it ?

4. Board list and front page:
   Board list have included posts (chans) from one last day. What when we have to see all of existing boards ? What should be changed/replaced in theme files (or another place) ?

5. What from to obtain more peering srvs ? We have 6 instances of nntpchan, few boards are only thematic boards, rests are general without any of scripts modification. All we are connected to main network by ONE server. When it stop working (hope not) than we have permanently missing connection to main network.
   The same situation with our servers group in Denmark -few physical machines and only one point connection to main network. Is there any way to connect more peers and create something like mesh network for to improve chans/posts propagation ?

6. Are you planning to develop nntpchan in the future or You are busy with other projects ?

[majestrate]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 02:32:44AM -0700, adamzend wrote: Hi again. These are not a typical /important issues bu only few questions from Polish users of Nntpchan: 1. Feed menu: What does mean Connection reader/stream (not authenticated) ? (second option is "authenticated" but have never seen it)

it means if the connection is using tls cert authentication or not

2. Why sometimes all of posts are not synchronized between servers ? Our collegae inform that waiting time on his server was 3 days and posts were not synchronized at all. I had the same situation many times and one way was to restart nntpchan server (and Tor if used). What is a reason of not completed synchronization ?

that depends on how you set up feeds between peers.

3.Front page: Normally we have front page with list of boards. We have thematic board and would like to see it as catalog of posts like catalog-xxx.xxx.xxx.html. How to do it ?

take a look at the html template at contrib/templates/default/frontpage.mustache and contrib/templates/placebo/catalog.mustache as i recall catalogs are reachable via board.name.here-catalog.html or something of that nature

4. Board list and front page: Board list have included posts (chans) from one last day. What when we have to see all of existing boards ? What should be changed/replaced in theme files (or another place) ?

you could probably query using javascript ajax /boards.json endpoint and do it yourself to have an all boards page. it's heavy though.

5. What from to obtain more peering srvs ? We have 6 instances of nntpchan, few boards are only thematic boards, rests are general without any of scripts modification. All we are connected to main network by ONE server. When it stop working (hope not) than we have permanently missing connection to main network. The same situation with our servers group in Denmark -few physical machines and only one point connection to main network. Is there any way to connect more peers and create something like mesh network for to improve chans/posts propagation ?

right now the network is very small, i only know of 1 other person running a node in the network over tor.

6. Are you planning to develop nntpchan in the future or You are busy with other projects ?

i am planning on maintaining nntpchan but i am usually doing work at my day job.

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[adamzend]

Ok, Jeff. Thanks for fast reply.
Question about point 2:
You wrote "that depends on how you set up feeds between peers.".
Can You explain FULL set of feeds parameters ? In doc file there is only 2-3 but i know there is more.
Is there also additional settings for srnd.ini which are not described in the sample configuration?