If chat is darknet-only and forums are Freetalk, neither of those will be immediately available when starting up a node for the first time, at least until there are darknet invites. There's not really a clear single solution. Given that search is slow, I agree with those who suggest moving the box below the bookmarks so that it ceases to appear to be a central feature. I don't think a wizard for introducing users to Freenet would work very well, but GitHub, for example, does have introductory, dismissable panes that are much less intrusive than a wizard and could be helpful.
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Matthew Toseland <[email protected] > wrote: > On Thursday 09 Jun 2011 17:37:19 Matthew Toseland wrote: > > Ian has suggested that we might benefit from some of the standard > marketing wisdom. > > > Here's a post-install question: > > Most users after they install are faced with a search box and a list of > sites. They try the search and it is slow and/or doesn't work. They don't > try the sites at all because they have no idea what to do with them ????? > > We need more usability testing, but there was some feedback along similar > lines... People don't understand indexes??? Or maybe we just need to label > it better. Arguably once you've installed you want a "now what?" - a bunch > of things you can do e.g. chat, look at some content etc. > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > [email protected] > http://freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl >
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