SoulSeek has quickly become an important force in the P2P world. Although it has not reached great heights like WinMX or FastTrack, this network has one of the strongest and closest knit communities. In addition, its lead programmer, Nir Arbel, maintains close contact with the SoulSeek community; something that is perhaps more important than the network size or availability of files. We would like to thank Nir Arbel for taking the time to participate in this interview.
Slyck.com: Explain SoulSeek�s progress towards decentralization. When will SoulSeek ultimately become a fully decentralized network; and,
What aspects of the network are centralized? Please explain the
current architecture.
Nir Arbel: If anything, we’re less decentralized now than we were when we started on the whole thing. The more system functions we tried to move to the decentralized network, the clearer it became how important the reliability of centralization was to most of the things Soulseek did.
In the end the only thing we left decentralized was the distribution of search requests. Those took the heaviest toll on the server, but at the same time search requests, as data, are much more disposable than say private messages, user info requests, or pretty much anything else the server does. In case you haven’t guessed by now, no, Soulseek will never become fully decentralized. It would be impossible to manage as a community the same way that’s done now.
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