It's time to do a proper job of integrating Bitzi support

[Aaron.Walkhouse]

The vast majority of LimeWire users have never even heard of Bitzi because it was hidden
away in a context menu of only one pane in one view all these years. Try doing what
BearShare did and put it prominently in the context menu wherever a file is displayed (not
just in search) and put a Bitzi icon right beside the Junk icon as well.

The Bitpedia (http://bitzi.com/bitpedia/) has grown to nearly three million entries over the past eight years and
virtually all the bad stuff have been listed in it, meaning it is no longer merely a useful tool,
it is essential for public safety on any sharing network.

Also please note that direct XML communications (http://bitzi.com/developer/xml) have always been available, meaning
you can just pop up info directly and nearly instantly within LimeWire with a bare
minimum of programming effort.

Keep it to user requests only though. Automated searches by millions of LimeWire nodes
would probably slow it down too much unless you were willing to cache and distribute
XML tickets alongside the DHT until they expire. (Yes, they come with expiry dates.) ;)

[dreams]

I agree. I think the implementation of this is not an option. This should become integrated within the program. A lot of people use it, those who dont will see it and then understand right away its importance. I vote for yes as well.

[Sam]

Not sure what you mean by putting it next to the junk icon -- there is no junk icon unless it's junk, and I can't imagine you'd only want to make bitzi available for spam files.

We'll take a look at integrating it directly in LW (using the XML communications) for a future release. Thanks for letting us know about that -- I had no clue it was available.

[Aaron.Walkhouse]

Cool. I'm looking forward to that.

As for the icon, I mean the big one near the bottom right corner of search results.
The idea is that the curious will discover it all by themselves without our help or
having to RTFM before they know it exists. That will save us a lot of time and
effort in support because a huge number of people will get answers on their own
instead of coming here with complaints. The few who still don't get it on their own
can simply be told "Click on Bitzi" instead of how to drill down through menus and
they can even help each other with that once it becomes so easy to describe.

[Sam]

You haven't run LW 5, have you... :-)

[Aaron.Walkhouse]

I don't wanna uninstall my Pro. It expired just last month. http://www3.telus.net/Aaron_Walkhouse/tongue3.gif

Just kidding. I've been really busy with the trojan hunt over the past couple of months.
I think I've harvested over thirty thousand in the past two weeks alone.

[dreams]

I see you implemented it in this latest beta. Its nice to have it there but once suggestion. When you first click get file information, can it be displayed under the hash portion of the text saying get file information from Bitzi? Make it more noticeable? Most newbies wont see that small text.

[Sam]

It's right there on the right as a link -- pretty darn visible if you ask me. Either way, integrating the information within LimeWire would be a better solution and one we'll look at.