On 2010/10/21 (Oct), at 1:33 PM, Matthew Toseland wrote: >> I'm not saying that media attention is a bad thing, but we're >> letting it affect >> the development process too much. It puts a lot of unnecessary >> pressure on >> these "colourful pieces of candy". > > IMHO Freetalk is strategically important, even in the complete > absence of media attention. It greatly enhances the possibilities > for anonymous community, and makes Freenet much more useful out of > the box. As regards the rest I have explained my approach in the > other mail - there are big strategic deficiencies in Freenet, > particularly in security, performance and usability, and fixing > these has to be the top priority before 1.0.
I could not agree more (!!!). Freenet is trying to solve a large goal (collective storage), but the fundamental idea is communication! IMHO, this sort of communication software should follow this sort of roadmap: (1) point-to-point communication (like a multi-user node-to-node chat), (2) "viral" spreadability (like social conveyance not a computer virus), (3) easy/untraceable/limited-spam message-board functionality (beyond node-to-node, but maybe pre-trust darknet links for WoT), (4) easy "new-darknet-link" via message boards, and only then... (5) collective file storage (which is fetch with origin offline). At least in the worst-case scenario or in disaster recovery, etc. Right now we only have #5 mostly working and hope to implement the others on top of it (which might be the best course of action), but with just 1 & 2, you can pass a cheap usb key to your friend and bypass all instant messengers, email, etc. I've had at least one person already ask, "how can we talk privately [over the internet]" and though I could think of many "solutions" they are all seem too complex for non-geeks: e.g. you can setup outlook with gnupg with a particular plugin trusting the pubkey I email to you, or download this particular IM with OTR encryption which might not be available for your platform (so long as there is not a MITM the first time...), or install java & freenet w/ a second in-person ref- exchange & we'll use awkward n2n chat [but you might run into some porn if you travel too far from the home page] :-( ... -- Robert Hailey -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20101021/caf80b12/attachment.html>
