[tor-bugs] #31109 [Circumvention/Snowflake]: Better gamify the UX for snowflake extension

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#31109: Better gamify the UX for snowflake extension
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 Reporter:  cohosh                   |          Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement              |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium                   |      Milestone:
Component:  Circumvention/Snowflake  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                   |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  snowflake-extension      |  Actual Points:
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 Reviewer:                           |        Sponsor:  Sponsor28
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Comment (by cohosh):

 From teor:
  - on relay search, we highlight consensus weight and bandwidth. And most
 other tools and ISPs make it easy to measure bandwidth. So relay operators
 try to maximise those numbers. No matter how many times we tell them that
 latency and reliability are also good for users.

 From arma:
  - giving me some solid indication that it's working would be great. right
 now i have only one metric -- whether the number changes from 0. so if
 there is something else, like whether i am successfully telling the broker
 that i exist, that could be useful.
 - whatever we show the users is our chance to steer them toward
 prioritizing what we want them to prioritize. that is, if we give them a
 number, they will naturally want that number to go up as high as possible
 - for example, showing them how many other people are running snowflakes
 right now. that's a number that could go up, and represents...something
 relevant here.

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