* Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> [2008-09-01 21:43:33]:
> On Monday 01 September 2008 19:45, Ian Clarke wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Matthew Toseland > > <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote: > > > 1. Bootstrapping is working extremely slowly at the moment. It takes 5-10 > > > minutes for a new node to get 10 peers according to the regular testing > code. > > > > What, if anything, are we doing about this? What can we do about this? > > We can solicit more seednodes. I've just done that. Beyond that I dunno, > maybe > it is worth investigating to see if there is a bug blocking things. > > I do think that improving Freenet's speed in general, even after > bootstrapping, with things like FOAF and better handling of opennet node > locations, will help us to gain and keep users. Nextgens will enable FOAF > soon, this should help; when Vivee has some answers, hopefully we'll be able > to sort out opennet swapping (we've talked extensively about simulations, > hopefully this will be sorted soon). > > > > > 2. Many users get confused when we tell them that the ports may not have > been > > > forwarded, and this certainly leads to some uninstallations. We should fix > > > the FNPPacketsSent-based not-port-forwarded detection, and only show that > > > message if we have grounds to think we are not port forwarded. > > > > Ok, we should do it. > > Right. > > > > > 3. I suspect both this and the lack of content overlap with not knowing > what > > > to do with Freenet i.e. just the web interface isn't that interesting on > its > > > own, filesharing and chat need to be easy and obvious. > > > > Ok, so where do fixing these issues fit into our current priorities? > > As far as #3 goes, I'm open to suggestions. > > Searching: Lots of users want searching, and are disappointed when they don't > get it. Integrating XMLLibrarian into freesites and into the homepage would > help; making XMLSpider easier to use might help too; in any case, we need > somebody to regularly insert an index. > > Chat: Saces is working on a plugin to implement FMS. This probably won't have > a good web interface but may be a middle layer above WoT and below a web > interface. A web interfaced embeddable chat plugin would be ideal, but making > Frost use the WoT plugin would also be acceptable; we then have the question > of how to make users aware of it if it's an external program. > > Filesharing: Again, how do we make users aware of Thaw, given it's an > external > program? Or do we tightly integrate the ThawIndexPlugin? I haven't used it, > how useful is it? It useful, we should do it. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20080901/8732d556/attachment.pgp>
