With the impending (cough) 0.6 version, and the consequent extra news (hopefully some /.) etc, we will probably gain a huge amount of new users. This userbase (together with the possible financial benefit; hopefully enough to get toad going for another month or two) will need some user-friendlyness.
 
Which, frankly, ain't really there yet in some respects. I have recently set up a new node again, and (again) the indexsites on the webinterface were gone. And no, it's not because it's new; I (and many others) have experienced the same with well-established  nodes. For the 100th time: DBRs, as currently implemented, suck for this kind of thing. And we can't wait for the TUKs; that's a project for the long-term.
 
Thus...pls, BEFORE there is version 0.6 and a whole new bunch of newbies trying Freenet out, make a edition-based indexpage on the webinterface! Yeah, I *know* all the contra's: it's not going to be updated enough, etc. Well, it can be updated with every new version and so what if it's 4 month old untill the next versionnumber? Most sites will still work, and it certainly beats having NOTHING. And I doubt many newbies are going to ask for keys on IIP.
 
See it as a short term-solution, ok? Untill you have a system that auto-looks-up the versionnumbers of the edition, or the TUKs are ready or sort.
 
But goddamn, we *must* have something more reliable then the current DBRs (as indexpages), that's for sure. Doing this before a new major numberversion gets out would be a tactical sound decision.
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