[xor] > > IF we get a decent new web interface done which integrates all of those, we > could make a theme which completely looks like Facebook and then do a major > press release which claims something like "Freenet project implements > anonymous Facebook". This would probably hit most of the IT news sites and > help usability very much because there are hundreds of millions of Facebook > users and Facebook is a major buzzword. > > Given that the architecture of our web interface is homebrew, difficult to > use > by web developers and needs a complete re-write anyway I suggest that we > include what I've described in this mail in our GSoC decision: > > IF there is a good student besides zidel who wants to revamp the web > interface > with a web-UI-framework we should try to take him. We could benefit very > much > from a new code architecture of the web interface! >
This would be great! If it is done before Diaspora [ https://joindiaspora.com/] (or similar) release, it would be a great hit for Freenet! (Diaspora aims to provide a decentralized open source social networking platform). All those people considered with commercial, unsafe and centralized nature of social networks such as Facebook, Orkut, etc. (e.g. myself!) could use Freenet as a replacement! The most important issue on moving to a new architecture and replace/enhance the current structure with a more developer/designer friendly one is deciding the right framework. Currently a custom from-the-scratch framework utilizing apache velocity and extending existing toadletServer and Toadlets is considered.( http://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/2011-April/001504.html). If we reach a consensus on this matter I could start building a prototype framework and perform some tests on already existing toadlets. Regards Pouyan
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