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I've been using it for the last two weeks and I've been pretty happy with it. One thing I wish it had is to display possibly some information regarding the connection. I usually use icanhazip to verify my IP is different from my local net. I think displaying what exclusions and such are active during an active connection would be good too.

Typing on phone, so please excuse the slightly abrupt tone.

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Good to hear that its working out for you. I'm actually having a bit of trouble keeping in contact with the active users. I put a post in the discussion area of the repo but didn't get much response. If anyone has any ideas on how to better keep in touch with the users I would appreciate it.

I agree, it needs better visibility of what is happening with the active connection. Its easy enough to use icanhazip etc. in a browser to see the active IP but that's not possible in apps like a torrent downloader or game. Someone suggested a feature to monitor data input/output in the repo discussion area so I'll tag onto that with your suggestions.

Reaching your users is even difficult for me, building internal tools. We use a multi-pronged strategy. The only way to be sure is to have a popup in the app, although tbf this annoys people so care should be taken to minimise the nuisance.

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