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Ive been trying to rethink the What is Freenet? section of the
site. In my opinion this is the most important part of the site as it
is the part that most people will read first. Ive attached my attempt
at writing the section. Quite a few parts were borrowed from the
existing text that Ian wrote. I think the two most important things
when explaining what Freenet is should be to emphasise that it is for
freedom of speech and not another filesharing network. The other thing
was to make sure to point out that Freenet isnt just restricted to
sharing files with one another.
I think you manage that pretty well.
I dont think this section should be too technical, it is mainly to
spark a interest with the reader and to get across a very basic
understanding of what Freenet is. More detailed information should be
in the documentation and already exists in the papers we have for download.
Agreed. So I'd suggest the "Significantly, Freenet generally requires
log(n) time to retrieve a piece of information in a network of size n."
line in the bullet list at the top be dropped. It's probably worth
mentioning at some point (maybe in another part of the site), but it's
way too technical for a quick summary of Freenet's features.
I strongly disagree, it gets across a point better than pages of waffle
about routing, and if people can't understand simple maths then they
shouldn't be allowed to have computers (or live in houses).
[ cruise / casual-tempest.net / transference.org ]
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