New HP calculator literature site

[Dave Britten]

(10-05-2021 04:20 PM)John Keith Wrote:  

(10-05-2021 02:25 PM)Eric Rechlin Wrote:  Torrents don't work well for rapidly changing datasets, because a new torrent has to be created (with seeding broken for any existing seeders) with any change, and because I am adding new content multiple times a week, it is changing too much for a torrent. However, once things settle down a bit (probably next year) I may make a torrent.

But torrents seem to be ignored by most people, so it may be a lot of effort for nothing; the number of people who've used my other torrents is still in the double-digits even after several years. As it is I have people almost every day trying to scrape my main hpcalc.org web site even though a torrent is provided, so sometimes I feel like I'm wasting my time.

Thanks also from me, Eric- a truly wonderful and valuable resource!

I myself do not use torrents for various reasons, including that any use of torrents (or the TOR browser) are regarded with suspicion by many governments, including our own.

As long as each year's HHC thumb drive has a copy of the archive I will be happy.

Yeah, if it's still being rapidly updated, then a torrent isn't quite as practical. It's not too bad if you just periodically upload a new torrent file, and everybody can grab it and point to their existing local copy to get the updates.

Anyway, just throwing out ideas for a "download all" option that won't melt Eric's web server.