Hello, for some time I've been thinking about points that make me disconnect from freenet from time to time. One of them, I think, is that once you manage to connect, you feel quite alone in there.
Freesites are static in nature, there's a feeling that you're in the middle of the night and here and there you stump into unrelated freesites. Index sites mitigate somewhat this feeling, but not much. Frost and FMS, they're not trivial to setup nor in the web interface. Sure, I lurk in the dev mailing lists. That's great since I see activity and community there. But, putting myself in the shoes of an average user (in the end, I'm a techie), that's only trying freenet via the web interface, I think there's something (that many other projects do) that could do, with little effort, much to diminish the feeling that freenet is a bunch of freesites. I'm namely proposing to add to the freenet interface (in the welcome page or a dedicated page) an official announcement section, where the freenet team publish news related to the project. Basically, the same updates that go thru dev, could be distilled in a (weekly?) post that the node would present to the user. This way one feels that things are moving even without having chat yet, nor subscribing to mailing lists. Plain users would have quick access to a minimal but regularly updated "what's happening with freenet" page, sanctioned by the devs. I'm not talking about entering into conflicting debate or technical detail, just plain understandable updates that show that the project is well alive and moving along. What do you think? I know that some freesites are sanctioned and linked in the "browse freenet" page, but I'm aiming at something even more basic: "the" freenet team news. A "latest news" section. _______________________________________________ chat mailing list chat@freenetproject.org Archived: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.general Unsubscribe at http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/chat Or mailto:chat-requ...@freenetproject.org?subject=unsubscribe
