In your experience, how easy is it to find goods and services on OpenBazaar? I find, if I find something worth it, it only stays on their for a few hours and the next time you search for it, it is gone for hours. I know that is how it was designed and how it was supposed to work, but I think for the average user, new to decentralized market places, this might be a bit confusing.
Most of them are used to centralized services that are always online and available. I guess it has it's pro's and con's and we just have to deal with the way it works, but it's still a challenge for newbies. ^hmmmmm^
personally, i use a VPS and run openbazaard.py in deamon mode, this way it stays up pretty well... From time to time, it seems to crash, but overall, i think my page is online about 80% of the time.
That being said: you're correct, most stores go on- and offline rather often, which is a pain in the *ss. Also, the search function within openbazaar kinda blows, i use bazaarbay to find interesting stuff, but like you said: most of the time, the shops are offline.
I hope these problems will go away with later releases, remember, it's a very immature project at the moment
