• Rengoku@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Well, like asking users what their preferences are and select the servers based on the criteria users have chosen?

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        1 year ago

        Hmm actually yeah this is a good idea, but the problem is that there’s so many servers that I feel that after choosing criteria there’d still be a bunch of servers in the list and the problem remains, right? Just bouncing ideas. I quite like this idea though.

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          1 year ago

          Then the algo recommends the one with the lowest load and hides the others behind a … icon or something.

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            Mm this could be a problem because server load is too unpredictable. I would actually say just randomize the list, so that it kinda does its own “load balancing” by incentivizing to pick whatever random top one it selected?

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              1 year ago

              Yeah, whatever metric. Could also use a mix of number of users, some form of reputation measurement, uptime, etc.

              I mostly meant that the system should pick a “best server” and recommend that. Smarter people than me can come up with the best metric.

              But swamping the user with >100 servers to pick from is counterproductive.