Hello,
I've seen numerous discussions about how freenet can be made more user-friendly. Here is a suggestion straight from a beginner.
We don't like it when we click on a link and nothing happens. We get the urge to click again, and again and then finally click on the 'little x' button to close the browser and never try freenet again.
Hint: Create an intermediary page that loads instantly when you click on a link, which shows 'progress bars' with interesting information on what freenet is doing while trying to get your information. Then when it's done, load the destination page.
Love,
Burgerking
About the first post-win95 update to MSIE had a progress bar which, when the "go" button was pressed, started to move up to just below halfway at a slow but visible rate even if DNS lookup had failed and no page was ever going to load. When I complained, I was told by Microsoft that this was reassuring for users, at least it showed something was happening, and that MSIE hadn't crashed. On mature reflection, I am on Microsoft and Burgerking's side here, some indication that Freenet is trying to do something hard, even if only loosely based on what is really happening, would be a good thing.
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