RetroShare

and the most I've ever seen is 4 or 5.

Keep adding new certs, stay online, and approve connections.

Also, there might be a connectivity problem. 0 peers online is suspicious.

I went through the RetroShare certs thread from the beginning and added literally every Tor/Darknet cert, and have approved every connection request that came in. I've also left the PC this is running on up for the last 4-5 days.

I'm in Eastern US time and there was nobody online after about ... 10:00-ish or so PM last night? There were 5 friends connected when I checked on it mid-afternoon today.

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There were 5 friends connected when I checked on it mid-afternoon today.

Aha, so at least it works! I would also suggest to add friends from RS key exchange and /hypno/ forums (post your cert only in the dedicated /hypno/ thread, otherwise you will be banned).

There were 5 friends connected when I checked on it mid-afternoon today.

Aha, so at least it works! I would also suggest to add friends from RS key exchange and /hypno/ forums (post your cert only in the dedicated /hypno/ thread, otherwise you will be banned).

Yes, and I can exchange files, too.  It works *somewhat*, which is the puzzling bit. If it didn't work at all, the puzzle would be easier to solve.

Hard to say how deep this rabbit hole goes, but I think I noticed today that my network was somehow bolstered by in the network section, right clicking on a friend and changing their node type to trusted.  Logically that would make sense to me, but I haven't seen anything written about it.  I then went ahead and - if people had been up for a long time so I recognized their nick, and were sharing 1GB+ of files, that I upgraded their nodes to trusted.

But!  I don't understand the implications of 'trusted' (or the level beyond), and am not clear on the whole 'sign this person's key' functionality.  Would any of you learned experts be willing to share any insight / best practices around this?  Really is a fascinating app and unbelievable functionality / security!  

also if you celebrate - Happy, safe Thanksgiving all.

FWIW I did notice strangely that today I'm displaying 1/820 friends online - but it's behaving regularly - at 40GB uploaded and counting - like my usual peak of ~20/820 online...

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I'm displaying 1/820 friends online

This is a direct peer. That peer is connected to a bunch of other peers - they will be secondary for you. You can also up/download to/from secondaries as well.

I run Retroshare in a Linux Mint VM.  I tried growing the VM's filesystem to accommodate my downloaded files, but now when I try to start Retroshare, Tor just hangs at "75% (Loaded enough directory info to build circuits)", and RS never starts. Is there any way to enable verbose logging so I can try to diagnose/debug what's going on?

ETA: removing the "state" and "lock" files in the /tor/ subdirectory did it. Forces it to renegotiate a connection.

Is there away to purge all the boards that have been added in my RS without any interaction on my part?
There are several that very openly reference CP and I want those gone from my setup.

Same with 50+ Forums that have russian names.
I don't see any option to remove them or better yet opt out of them being added unprompted.

Would going to Settings -> Permissions and uncheck (set to block) gsxchannels and gsxforums do the trick?

What is the difference between the short certs starting with AB and the long certs?  The long ones work but the short ones I cannot figure out...

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CP

Check Point? 😅 Just unsubscribe from them 😬