* Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> [2008-09-01 23:00:01]:
> On Monday 01 September 2008 21:49, Florent Daigni?re wrote: > > * 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. > > > Saces already did, right? In which case we should include it in the default > plugins list? I think we should, yes. -------------- 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/20080902/a85611bb/attachment.pgp>
