On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 07:41:27PM +0000, Clueless wrote: > On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 17:35:48 +0000, Toad wrote: > > >That has generally been true of freenet in the past, unfortunately. We > >have made some progress, but nodes not working well for newbies is > >expected. > > That's OK, as long as the newbie knows what to expect. I think the site says > something about "a few hours", which hasn't quite been my experience... > Oh, and the default size of the data store should be increased. A lot.
Yes, Ian always exaggerates for publicity. I'm not quite sure why as it seems to harm more than it gains us. > > >Heh. That's called an RNF. It stands for "Route Not Found". And no, you > >don't need FUQID to download files from freenet > > ...but it works much better than anything else I've tried. :-) I thought you didn't have it? :) > > >> The whole experience just isn't very newbie-friendly. > >Very probably. Anything that learns can't start up instantly. We've > >tried to improve it though, and maybe we can get a bit further with > >that. And of course, the overall network performance is a lot lower than > >it ought to be. > > It's not only performance. For example, the prominently featured "Freenet Help > Index" links to an old version of Frost, which is why I couldn't get it to > work > first. Not our problem, but maybe he's on the list. > > >Possibly. But if we distributed Frost, for example, then we get a lot > >closer to "filesharing", which may have legal ramifications - especially > >with Frost's current initial boards selection! > > You have a point there... > > Thanks for your answers, all in all I'm happy now with the performance of > Freenet, I've given it 6GB to store data and it already uses 1.5GB. Woah. You're happy with the performance of freenet? This cannot happen, it doesn't make sense, it's against all Newsbyte's assertions, the sky is falling... :) -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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