Well, my take is that with SOPA/PIPA coming today and Megaupload busted and Wikipedia taking a stand for the open web and against censorship, our relentless promotion of freenet over the last few months seems to have taken hold. People are realizing that freenet still exists and has already created solutions to many hard problems.
Especially the Mesh-People were quite interested in seeing that Freenet actually works over restricted routes, which is a perfect fit for mesh networking technology, where these restricted routes are enforced by the hardware. And maybe people now realize, that those nutcracks who said ?we need freenet to provide the basic necessarities for free speech? were actually right? I reworked the english Wikipedia page a while back to show the current capabilities of freenet. Maybe people did the same for the french site. And about Facebook: That?s all about momentum. In Sone we also get more new users per day. So, how to improve the first impression people get? Do the installers work everywhere? Are there enough people in the chatroom to help newcomers? In IRC someone dropped by and said that he is gathering all the old time freenetters fro his computer club again. And they are building a darknet. Sparky the name was, I think. And damn, the SOPA vote is today. So people should actually get freenet wie they can still reach the site. Best wishes, Arne PS: @toad: This would be the perfect time to get done with the exams :). But I think it woould be the worst time to deploy NLM. Never break the wave while it runs. Ride it and smooth out every disbalance as fast as possible to keep the momentum. At Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:15:07 -0600, Ian Clarke wrote: > > [1 <multipart/alternative (7bit)>] > [1.1 <text/plain; ISO-8859-1 (7bit)>] > Our website traffic appears to have tripled over the past week: > > https://img.skitch.com/20120123-nhxbcfmkwnjriwrr3bga7aamq3.png > > Anyone know what is going on? Since the beginning of January referrals > from Facebook have increased by 2,500%, referrals from Wikipedia have > doubled, and referrals from fr.wikipedia.org have increased 10X. > > We're also getting some traffic from: > > http://www.linuxzone.es/2012/01/20/the-freenet-project-una-red-anti-sopa-y-sinde/ > > Could all of this be due to the attention around SOPA? > > Ian. > > -- > Ian Clarke > Founder, The Freenet Project > Email: ian at freenetproject.org > [1.2 <text/html; ISO-8859-1 (quoted-printable)>] > > [2 <text/plain; us-ascii (7bit)>] > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
