We should consider showing torrent health in the 'popular torrents' tab

[devos50]

See title. When I go to the 'popular torrents' page, I get a list of popular torrents. However, I'm unable to see how popular they are exactly, i.e., is a particular torrent seeded by 10 or 1000 users?

Is there any particular reason why torrent health has been hidden on this page? If not, I would suggest showing this information 👍

[ichorid]

At first, the health column was there. But there was a problem: when clicking on the health indicator, the results were predominantly 🔴 . The reason is simple: DHT health checks are slow and unreliable over tunnels. So, we disabled the user's ability to click on the health bar. This proved to be rather frustrating, so we removed the health column at all.

I'm out of ideas here.

[devos50]

@ichorid thanks for clarifying!

This proved to be rather frustrating

Was it frustrating for us (as developers) to disable this health check or frustrating from an end-user perspective?

[ichorid]

Was it frustrating for us (as developers) to disable this health check or frustrating from an end-user perspective?

Frustrating from a user perspective. Disabling it was just a single line of code...

[devos50]

Frustrating from a user perspective.

Did we receive feedback from users that they consider it frustrating (maybe I missed it)? Personally, I wouldn't mind if I was unable to refresh the health on a particular page. Of course, the preferred solution would be to fix the anonymous lookups.

[ichorid]

Did we receive feedback from users that they consider it frustrating (maybe I missed it)?

If I remember correctly, there was some feedback on the forum. Also, you could try re-enabling it and try it yourself 😉 You won't believe how annoying it is not to be able to check the health of a torrent on click, especially after you got so used to it from Channels UI...

[devos50]

If I remember correctly, there was some feedback on the forum.

Thanks for elaborating! If there was user feedback about this feature, then we can leave it as it currently is and maybe restore this functionality later 👍 . Should this issue be closed then?

[drew2a]

To me as a user, it is completely fine not to have a health re-check on the popular page (because if torrents are popular, then they are healthy).