I've done some usability testing with a local newbie volunteer. The main conclusions:
1. The website: the download link is not obvious enough! There is a lot of text on the right, and the Download link is lost admid the menu on the left. 2. If java is not installed, the installer pops up a non-fatal error message relating to the registry. http://amphibian.dyndns.org/registry-error.png (I also fixed an issue, which is that we were pointing to the without-a-jvm installer, which was then sending the user to the sun webpage... :( ). 3. The whether-to-enable-opennet decision page: the question at the end of the page is not clear. Perhaps "Do you have at least 5 friends already using Freenet?" 4. Opennet-based Freenet is slow to start with. People may pick this up on the welcome.html, but it's towards the end, and the "next" link is at the top. It would probably be best to mention it on the web interface somehow. 5. Firefox is not optimised for Freenet: it has too few parallel connections, this significantly slows down browsing Freenet, especially if a smart user starts opening stuff in new tabs... This is a major problem, but I'm not sure what we can do about it. It's mentioned in the README (well the 0.5 readme at least), but who reads it?
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