[tor-bugs] #29330 [Metrics/Website]: Do something with advertised bandwidth distribution graphs

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#29330: Do something with advertised bandwidth distribution graphs
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 Reporter:  karsten          |          Owner:  metrics-team
     Type:  enhancement      |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium           |      Milestone:
Component:  Metrics/Website  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal           |     Resolution:
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 Reviewer:  irl              |        Sponsor:
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Comment (by karsten):

 Replying to [comment:6 arma]:
 > I am ok with the 'replace' plan, where we switch from descriptor
 bandwidths to consensus weights.

 Good to know!

 > These graphs are all about (or at least, were started for) visualizing
 how centralized the Tor network is. For example, they aimed to help answer
 the questions "how much of the Tor network are the top x relays, or the
 top x% of the relays?" There are many other ways we might visualize the
 centralization of the network over time, and which for me might be at
 least as good as these current graphs. For examples,
 >
 > * "how many relays are in the top 50% of the network by bandwidth or by
 consensus weight?"
 >
 > * "if we think of the current Tor network in terms of equally weighted
 relays, rather than the current wildly unbalanced weights, how many
 uniformly-weighted relays would it be the equivalent of?"
 >
 > * "if a client builds 100 circuits, what's the expected number of relays
 (maybe broken out into first / second / third hop) that it will interact
 with?"

 I'll start a new ticket for doing a one-off analysis to answer these
 questions. Then we can decide whether we want to add any of these graphs
 to the website.

 Until then I'll move forward with this switch. I guess I'll first add the
 new graph and declare the existing two graphs as deprecated, and two weeks
 later I'll remove those two graphs.

 Thanks!

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