I've seen that many people don't like clustering. I just wan't to hear some explanation that why clustering is so bad. This far I have only heard that clustering is greed and Vinnie stinks. Can you please give reasons for why you think so.

BearShare clients are supporting hashes, there aren't othert gnutella clients wich support hashes (as far as I know, only newest LimeWire support hashes). So, if you want to take advantage of corruption free swarming downloads, you must have enough clients in your horizon wich support hashes. If you don't have, the swarming feature is unefficient and may cause corruptions to files. There is so few BearShare clients in the network that it is necessary to pull them together.

How does it harm the network? Are they still connected to rest of the network? Yes. Can others get hits from clustered clients? Yes, much. Can othet clients connect and get files from clustered part of network? Yes.


Yes, you can't deny that clustered clients benefit from clustering, other clients can't get that benefit. So, are you just jeallous if you're out from that cluster? How the world is different in outside of the cluster? I think there is no difference. There is reason for why certain clients are clustered, they have features what other client's haven't implemented yet. They need other client's wich support these features. Can the "outsider clients" benefit from clustering? No. Can "outsider clients" benefit if clustering would be removed? No. Clustering won't affect at all to the "outsider" clients.

Clusters aren't separate networks, they are just parts of network where are more certain type of clients than others. And those parts of network are tightly connected to the rest of the network.

Someone please explane me what is wrong with clustering. I can't see any reasons why it is so wrong.