Ian Clarke wrote: > Our key barriers to adoption right now are usability ones, and the > simple reality is that the lack of an opennet solution is excluding
Another barrier is that there is currently very little content in 0.7. There is huge turnover among new nodes because among the ones who do get it running and get a few refs and can actually use freenet there is nothing to cause them to stick around. I would be contributing something but at insert rates of 500 bytes per second up to (on a very good day) 2k per second it just isn't worth the hassle. I notice that frost ships with freenet now. It looks to me like frost hasn't changed much at all in 3 years and people tell me that file inserts and downloads are simply broken in frost. I have managed to pull down a few small jpg's but nothing else and have been unable to insert even a small file with frost. I was actually rather surprised to see frost shipping with freenet because last I heard frost was considered a DoS on the network. A lot of people come to freenet expecting file sharing and they aren't getting it so they move on. The network does seem to be pretty good at finding whatever content is there as I have been able to surf a number of freesites and always get the data. I think once I had to retry a second time but otherwise it comes right down. -- Tracy R Reed http://ultraviolet.org A: Because we read from top to bottom, left to right Q: Why should I start my reply below the quoted text
