On Jul 9, 2011 12:39 PM, "Matthew Toseland" <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote: > > Please look at what I've put up at the moment: > > "Share files, chat on forums, browse and publish, anonymously and without fear of blocking or censorship! Then connect to your friends for even better security!" >
I like this. Informative, upbeat and encourages darknet without scaring newbies. > On Friday 08 Jul 2011 01:14:00 Steve Dougherty wrote: > > I think "sites" is better - it portrays the website-like properties. > > "Pages" has a relative connotation of disconnectedness. > > > > "without fear" in the first part seems overly emotional. > > It's plain english, isn't that a good thing? What's your alternative? > > > It isn't clear from > > this that a darknet is connecting only to one's friends. Do you mean running > > darknet and opennet simultaneously? "Even better" security makes the > > assertion of "anonymously and without fear" seem a large exaggeration. How > > about something like: > > > > Share files, chat on forums, and browse and publish sites, anonymously and > > without blocking or censorship. Use "darknet" mode to connect only to your > > friends for improved security. > > Darknet is jargon. Jargon is bad but sometimes unavoidable, but it's especially bad at this point. > > > > Is it okay to mention attackers? The threat of attacks on privacy or person > > are arguably the reason for the security, but it makes the whole ordeal seem > > stressful. > > IMHO explicitly mentioning attackers would be bad here yes. > > > The exclamation marks come off as overly enthusiastic to me. > > Well maybe we should get rid of the sentence about darknet completely then? > > > > On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Matthew Toseland < toad at amphibian.dyndns.org > > > wrote: > > > > > Three different versions of the text at the top of the website recently. > > > My favoured option: > > > > > > Share files, chat on forums and browse and publish sites, anonymously and > > > without fear of blocking or censorship! Then connect to your friends in > > > "darknet" mode for even better security! > > > > > > (Is pages better than sites? It makes sense to avoid jargon here...) > > > > > > Previous: > > > (* = bold, ** = mouseover for "web sites accessible only through Freenet") > > > > > > Freenet lets you *anonymously* *share* files, browse and *publish* > > > freesites** and *chat* on forums, without fear of censorship. Freenet is a > > > peer to peer network with no central servers to make it less vulnerable to > > > attack, and if used in "*darknet*" mode, where users only connect to their > > > friends, is very difficult to detect or block. > > > > > > Before that: > > > > > > Freenet is free software which lets you *anonymously* *share* files, browse > > > and *publish* freesites** and *chat* on forums, without fear of censorship. > > > Freenet is *decentralised* to make it less vulnerable to attack, and if used > > > in "*darknet*" mode, where users only connect to their friends, is very > > > difficult to detect. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Devl mailing list > > > Devl at freenetproject.org > > > http://freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20110709/0cd9d094/attachment.html>
