On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote: > On Friday 13 June 2008 13:54, Ian Clarke wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 6:51 AM, Matthew Toseland >> <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote: >> > Should we change insecure/secure mode to visible/invisible mode? >> >> I don't think that really helps any. >> >> Perhaps stick with the "friends" and "strangers" metaphor, and have >> "friends only" mode, and "friends and strangers" modes? > > Okay, so what would the warning say? > > Strangers only mode enabled: Please get some Friends
Well, perhaps - except it wouldn't be "strangers only", because you can still connect to friends. It would need to be "friends and strangers" mode, or perhaps "anyone" mode. > Freenet is currently only connecting to nodes run by people you do not know. Well, even if you have some friends, we still need the warning. The issue is if you are connected to *anyone* you don't know, even if all but one of them are friends. > Please use the Friends page to get some connections to people you know by > exchanging your noderefs (at the bottom of the page). Once you have at least > 10 connections to Friends, you can disable Strangers mode and your node will > become invisible and much harder to attack or block. Yes. > One worry here is that users won't read the full message, they'll just see the > short form (as we only display the short form on the homepage) and then go to > Frost or IRC or something?? > > We could display some form of this on the last page of the wizard, as well as > in a useralert. The user is probably more inclined to read it there??? Perhaps on the friends page we should have some simple guidelines about what constitutes a "friend". Ian. -- Email: ian at uprizer.com Cell: +1 512 422 3588 Skype: sanity
