On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Florent Daigni?re <nextgens at freenetproject.org> wrote: > The main complain is that freenet is slow... do we know how to address > that?
Not according to the current survey results. Only 12% complained that it takes too long to retrieve content, as compared to 29% who claimed that they couldn't get it running. This argues strongly for more attention to be devoted to the installer, and to bootstrapping. > I don't think that putting a search box in front will help matters; > Let's assume the nodes bootstrap in seconds instead of minutes: > current indexes aren't maintained and if they were they would be *huge*. We > can't possibly expect the first search to be answered in seconds if it > involves downloading the huge index! Of course we could bundle the > indexes too... but if we go down that road it's not freenet anymore. A good point. I think my goal was to provide an interface that users would intuitively understand, a search engine is an example of such a thing. Perhaps the index could be downloaded in stages - a small initial file for the most popular stuff - to get quick responses - and then progressively larger files with additional info. Of course, what we really want is proper support for search in the protocol, but that is a tall order. Ian. -- Ian Clarke CEO, Uprizer Labs Email: ian at uprizer.com Cell: +1 512 422 3588
