User experience and user interfaces go hand and hand. I believe Thomas is addressing issues he sees with the user experience of Freenet.
If you're updating the interface to improve the user experience, it's a worthwhile investment. However, mainly putting effort into updating the visuals of an interface instead of improved parts of the experience of the software, isn't worthwhile. You can still have a 90s look, but if the experience of using the software is pleasant, it can go a longs way. --- iā¤computers On Mar 7, 2012, at 1:29 PM, Ian Clarke wrote: > On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Thomas Sachau <to...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Ian Clarke schrieb: > Do you really think, that having some nice javascript or otherwise > adjusted interface would magically raise the numbers of users? > > I think having a nice, well defined user interface will raise the number of > users, yes. Javascript is just a means to this end, since it's well suited > to rich web UIs, which Freenet requires. > > Some eye-candy > > I'm not talking about "eye-candy", I'm talking about good user interface > design. > > wont keep new users nor will it get you many new users, > it is way more important to have a reliable working freenet with some > nice additional apps (which themselves should also be reliable). > The only reliable working additional apps seem to be FMS and maybe Frost > (where the later has of course issues with spam). So due to the spam, > the only app left is in the end FMS. Now instead of supporting that, > something different is started and suggested (with wot and freetalk), > which still have many issues, are not reliable and where until now > nobody was able to even tell me, how wot itself works. > > So what is your point? The fact that Freetalk isn't perfect means that if > someone is willing to work on a different aspect of Freenet we should tell > them to go away? > > So what is the experience of new users? Install freenet, see automaticly > shipped wot+freetalk, try them, see their issues, maybe browse some > sites and uninstall freenet again, since things either do rarely work or > there is no content. A cool web-UI wont change those points, so from my > perspective, a different interface may be nice, but it wont solve the > bigger issues with freenet. > > So again, you think that just because a new UI won't solve every problem with > Freenet, then we shouldn't do it? That's completely illogical. > > Ian. > > -- > Ian Clarke > Personal blog: http://blog.locut.us/ > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl@freenetproject.org > http://freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
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