On Thursday 04 June 2009 01:27:33 Daniel Cheng wrote: > On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 2:09 AM, Matthew Toseland > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 03 June 2009 00:59:55 Daniel Cheng wrote: > >> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 1:33 AM, Matthew Toseland > >> <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > On Tuesday 02 June 2009 18:24:48 steve wrote: > >> >> What good is constantly displaying the security level, unless the user > >> >> would > >> >> like to change it frequently for some reason? > >> >> > >> >> The node already asks them which level they want at install time and it > >> >> is > >> >> easily accessible from the config page, so what do they gain by being > >> >> constantly reminded which security level they are on? > >> > > >> > They might forget! :) > >> > > >> > Seriously, right now we constantly display the security levels on the > >> > homepage, and there's a reason for that: they are important, we want > >> > people to add friends and upgrade from NORMAL to HIGH. We used to have > >> > an explicit warning about running opennet for this reason, now we just > >> > show the security levels. > >> > >> If this is the case, the alert / status line should read: "if you add > >> some friends, your node would be faster, more secure, better, ......" > >> > >> The current alert of "Security Level: LOW" have no this effect. > > > > Well it used to say that ... really I am not convinced that it is faster, > > although I can see it would be more stable ... all that we need users to > > know is that they do not have as good security as they could have, doesn't > > the security levels alert fulfill this purpose given that we explain the > > security levels during installation? > > > > The current alert just say "hey, you are insecure!", but it does not > tell the user what should he do.
Click on the alert. then click on the link to the security levels page? In terms of usability, I am reluctant to go back to having an explicit warning about opennet after we have introduced the security levels...
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