1)E-Mule has lost a great amount of users in the last years which have moved to other p2p (torrent firstly). Which are, in your opinion, the causes for that and how is going to be in the future?
I would say download speed! Torrents have higher incitaments to upload and so gives therefore better download speed in return. Also, many open-source projects have adopted Torrents as the prefered delivery method.
2)The MOD are certainly fuller of functions in confront of the official version. However, these are still a marginal aspect of eMule. How come?
MODs are very personalized and some features may only work for users with similar needs and/or setup. The official client for example lack the multi-threaded disk io that allows for higher data rates, because non of the official developers have the issue were their machines have problem cooping with their speed ofd their Internet connection and therefore have hard to see the need of this feature. The simple answer is that the developers have little time implementing new features and when they do, they focus on the ones they feel would benifit themselves in the first place.
3)The MOD scene become more conformed lately, probably because some developers enforce functions of most in vogue’s versions up till making their product similar to a kind of collage. This, in your opinion, is a good or bad thing? And why?
Neither! If alot of MODs implement a given feature it means that the majority of the Modders find it attractive/useful and thus gives a signal to the official developers that this is a highly wanted feature. On the other hand it steals time the Modders could have spent on developing new features instead. So it is a give and take.
4)Considering the amount of MOD in circulation at the moment,(as developer) did you ever take account of the hypothesis of grouping together and developing only ¾ of MOD making all of them different from each other, but in the same time enclosing all the various current features and other innovations?
No, I make the modding mostly for my own needs and I like experimenting quite freely with new features and coding methods.
5)Do you think that would be a good idea to leave the Server and concentrate all the attention to Kademlia to educate this part of users or it’s better, according to you, to wait for a more appropriate moment and permit them to get closer gradually?
No, need to change anything most users already use Kademlia and if they don't like the servers they will stop using them at their own accords.
6)Which are the strengths and news of your MOD/MODS?
It's optimized for Internet connections with high upload rates, to be exact 10 Mbit/s. Optimizations are in disk IO handling, CPU useage and credit system. Also, I spent some work to enable packet prioritization in my router using QOS features of Windows Vista/7. Also, I have a version compiled for 64bit Windows versions that use less CPU compared to the 32bit version. There is also some experimental Kademlia modifications that make searching sligtly faster and somewhat more reliable.
7)How did your passion for development of E-mule start and how long have you been practicing this interest?
Don't remember really when it started, but it began around the same time I started using eMule. I felt that there was room for making some improvements and I simply tried it out.
8)Many users complaint about too many fakes and porno films. Do you agree with us that trying to completely embank this problem should be a priority?
Well, its sometimes a problem. However, I use a feature in my Mod that marks search results in different colours depending how likely it is that they are fakes. The feature use primitive tests but is accurate to around 80-90% for those files I'm searching for.
9)Seeing that the pedopornography flooding on internet and various p2p, wouldn’t be advisable to create a function, in eMule, able to point out that kind of files to the competent authorities or to specific websites which collect such signalling like www.stop-it.org? This would be an innovation for eMule and maybe also an example for other p2p to which hark back to.
You, mean like a "Report Child Porn" button in eMule! This could be an idea. To implement this there need to be a well defined method how to report, so that the necessary data could be automatically included, and also allow for reports to be made in differnt languages.