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.

[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Noodlez@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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.