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What's been quite surprising to me is that no alternative solution to the "bandwidth" problem was figured out. How about some kind of volunteer distribution system? On the top of my head - how about a torrent solution? Put all addons in a single torrent - it's at most a couple of GB. People who want to help out connect to the torrent and download the entire thing then upload to whomever wants. It could be used "out of the box" for patch days for instance, but for long-term use it would require some adaptation since you can't push updates into a live torrent - you must create a new one.
I know that I could and would personally contribute between 90%~25% of my bandwidth to something like that, depending on what I'm doing. It would net around 7TB less load of addon downloads per month if I average at 25%.
Just some ramblings of a spectator with development background.
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