TAQOZ download traffic!
Peter Jakacki
Posts: 10,193
Sometimes I think hardly anybody takes any notice of TAQOZ but I noticed that my pCloud account also reports traffic and over 2 days there were 7,324 downloads of the Tachyon folder which also includes TAQOZ with a total 20GB of traffic.
All I can say is that there must be a lot of lurkers out there 
However I notice that there are over 2,000 files in the folder with a total of 7.1GB, but 6.4GB of that are the SD card media files I use for testing. So I have taken the SDCARD folder out of there and I will link it separately so that the whole Tachyon folder is now around 680MB. A bit better, but better still I will create a zip of the folder every time I update it, and time stamp the older versions.
I will post current links into the first page of TAQOZ, plus in my sig, plus in my "Complete Tachyon and TAQOZ files now on pCloud" thread too.
Comments
I'm not sure if it's good or bad but I admit very small portion of that traffic could be mine. A few megs maybe. In total.
I'm not concerned nor aware of any real restrictions with downloads but I was surprised by the usage, until I realised that only equates to 3 complete kit and kaboodle downloads of the whole folder. However that folder also had the multimedia files to load onto an SD card that took over 6GB, so now I share them separately to make it easier to grab the whole folder if need be. It's in the cloud for a reason.
There will be more traffic the moment P2D2 becomes more popular. It takes some time to overcome the threshold, but it will be an avalanche ;-)
User interfaces can be confusing. I tried to download a file and ended up with the complete PCloud. (Peters ;-) . Today I realized that when you click a file for download the formerly hidden options appear, but they are grayed out. Now I just didn't care and on "mouse over" the button became enhanced and I could download a single file. .... As I managed this task, I hope the user interface will change soon so I can proof again, I'm still able to learn by accident!
I wonder if you should maybe look into something like the Debian jigdo (Jigsaw Download) tool? Basically, the user downloads a binary template of the image they want, then jigdo downloads the bits and pieces needed to fill it in. More info at https://einval.com/~steve/software/jigdo/