On Wednesday 15 Jun 2011 00:21:52 Steve Dougherty wrote: > If chat is darknet-only
Darknet chat is distinct from other kinds of chat. It's not anonymous, for example. There are other tools such as Sone and Flip. Sone in particular has the potential to scale reasonably well and maintain realtime response when fetching messages by your friends. On the other hand, third party replies and mentions (and keyword searches if supported) will be slow. > 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. Yes, it takes some hours for Freetalk to download all the messages. > 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. The real solution is to fix search. I should expedite this. However even if I implement the search metadata change today, it will take time to rebuild indexes. > > 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.
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