On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Thomas Sachau <tommy at gentoo.org> wrote:
> Ian Clarke schrieb: > Do you really think, that having some nice javascript or otherwise > adjusted interface would magically raise the numbers of users? > I think having a nice, well defined user interface will raise the number of users, yes. Javascript is just a means to this end, since it's well suited to rich web UIs, which Freenet requires. > Some eye-candy I'm not talking about "eye-candy", I'm talking about good user interface design. > wont keep new users nor will it get you many new users, > it is way more important to have a reliable working freenet with some > nice additional apps (which themselves should also be reliable). > The only reliable working additional apps seem to be FMS and maybe Frost > (where the later has of course issues with spam). So due to the spam, > the only app left is in the end FMS. Now instead of supporting that, > something different is started and suggested (with wot and freetalk), > which still have many issues, are not reliable and where until now > nobody was able to even tell me, how wot itself works. > So what is your point? The fact that Freetalk isn't perfect means that if someone is willing to work on a different aspect of Freenet we should tell them to go away? > So what is the experience of new users? Install freenet, see automaticly > shipped wot+freetalk, try them, see their issues, maybe browse some > sites and uninstall freenet again, since things either do rarely work or > there is no content. A cool web-UI wont change those points, so from my > perspective, a different interface may be nice, but it wont solve the > bigger issues with freenet. > So again, you think that just because a new UI won't solve *every* problem with Freenet, then we shouldn't do it? That's completely illogical. Ian. -- Ian Clarke Personal blog: http://blog.locut.us/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20120307/b6ef941f/attachment.html>
