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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