Fair enough. I am not technical enough to challenge you on that, but I will bring in a friend who might do a good job on this one. Hopefully he will take time to contribute.
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Excellent work developers, and I appreciate all the work that goes into providing these detailed updates too.
Before I make a suggestion, just to let you know where Iām coming from, I was lead developer for a team of 4 front-end devs on a SaaS project that we worked on for about 18 months. We used React and Redux. Since finishing that project, our team has switched to building apps with the Vue framework. In my opinion, Vue enables higher developer productivity due to easier central state management and better integration of central state with components. Vue also has component-scoped css and good form management.
Another win is that Vue has a CLI, similar to create-react-app, except that it works with multiple scaffolding templates. There is a template for scaffolding electron apps. Build systems always evolve to include new and better software. Using Vue would enable you to offload the work of maintaining the build system to the Vue community.
Please, donāt even consider this a suggestion. Itās just information, something to be aware of. I realize you canāt have people suggesting rewrites to the latest frameworks, but I wouldnāt say anything if it werenāt early days for the Peruse browser and I didnāt think there would be substantial long-term productivity gains.
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32-bit users:
Iām curious to know which platforms you are using in order to focus our testing efforts.
So far SAFE Browser, Mail Tutorial, and Web Hosting Manager, run beautifully on 32-bit Ubuntu 16.04.
Iām thinking that 32-bit Windows 7 is an important test, based on Wiki usage statistics.
I see that Windows 10 was also released in 32-bit. Anyone using that?
Anyone on XP? I was still using it about 3 years ago.
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Will the nodes age/rank be (easily) known by the owner?
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I would think so - by inspection of datachain blocks, the messages being exchanged, or the areas of code being executed. Hard to hide, so easy to write a detector.
I hope that is not needed and Maidsafe make it easily available information.
I for one would be far less likely to turn my machine off if there was a visual indicator showing a loss of rank when it is turned back on.
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I know weāre getting off topic here, but BTC really concerns me.
It could definitely go up a lot more, but since its development community has shifted from the goal of making it a complete currency to simply being ādigital goldā to be hoarded, I think its value now rests solely on the future greed being greater than it is now. If a significant amount of people start questioning whether btc really is digital gold, then btc has nothing.
Yes it is part of the PeerId which is the peers name (public key) and age. As a peer gets a new age it must create a new public key (relocate on the network). So letting the user see that will be easy in code and your request is a sensible one. The age will mean more than the name to end users and it makes sense to show that with a little bit of text to say what it means to them.
Maybe we could have age bands where folk go from infant, adult, elder, hero, super hero etc.
Bottom line we will make age very clear to farmers 
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Exactly what I was hoping for!! 
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Would be great if the bands were farming related.
Seed, Seedling, Sapling etc. Or something along those lines.
Perhaps not!
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I see the logic. Whole the way to a sequoia.
You can come op with a lot of such systems, like wedding anniversaries: 5 year wood, 10 year tin, 25 silver, 50 gold, 80 oak.
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More than age will be considered in the ranking (upstream bandwidth, processing speed, etc.) so maybe identifiers that reflect overall strength of node.
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Maybe take Davidās age bands and attach a numerical value, 1 to 9, to indicate non-age measurement of node (current available bandwidth, current processing speed). So adult-1, adult-2 all the way up to adult-9; same with infant, elder, hero, super hero. Adult-9 would be ranked ahead of adult-8.
I believe this view is a misunderstanding. For Bitcoin to reach mass adoption, which is necessary if it is to be a viable form of currency, then at this stage the digital gold mantra and effect is what draws people in. I can assure you I plan on spending my Bitcoin at some time, but meanwhile it has a world market to entice 
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Peasants, Gentlefolk, Squires, Knights, Barons, Lords? Hmm, perhaps not.
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Right, but that means Bitcoin is essentially an ICO. People invest in Bitcoin not because itās useful now, but because it might be useful in the future.
In that respect, thereās nothing special about Bitcoin. It makes more sense for me to invest in an ICO whose technology I really believe in.
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Well, I can tell you I really believe in Bitcoinās technology, it has the potential to change the world. Bitcoin is not an ICO. Itās useful already and I regularly do transactions to buy things out of rising profits.
Bitcoin is special because it introduced the world to the concept of distributed networks without trusted third parties. It solved the problem of double spending via the invention of the blockchain - so Bitcoin is historically very special in my opinion.
In the same way, and for a different reason, the SafeNetwork is equally special - but not ready for prime time just yet.
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Now thats hard to achieve 
I rather like the infant, child, adult, elder
So infant == infant
child replaces adult
adult replace elder
elder is now one age above the old elder
and as elders age then give them appropriate sub names. Like āelder agedā for elders over age 8.
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Ha-ha!! The hierarchies of proper decentralization!
There is a certain wisdom in the old English system. Itās a gradient vesting of power, yes, but also responsibility. On SAFE ignoble nobles will reach a prompter demise, though.
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It would be very funny to use those labels for something so clearly not in the same spirit. A good joke.
I wonder if in 2076, when the whisper game as perverted the old tales of Knight David to some unrecognizable GoT plot, if it could go totally out of hand thoughā¦ 
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