On Friday 03 January 2003 05:36 am, Cruise wrote: > >Ive been trying to rethink the What is Freenet? section of the site. In > > my opinion this is the most important part of the site as it is the part > > that most people will read first. Ive attached my attempt at writing the > > section. Quite a few parts were borrowed from the existing text that Ian > > wrote. I think the two most important things when explaining what Freenet > > is should be to emphasise that it is for freedom of speech and not > > another filesharing network. The other thing was to make sure to point > > out that Freenet isnt just restricted to sharing files with one another. > > I think you manage that pretty well. > > > >I dont think this section should be too technical, it is mainly to spark > > a interest with the reader and to get across a very basic understanding > > of what Freenet is. More detailed information should be in the > > documentation and already exists in the papers we have for download. > > Agreed. So I'd suggest the "Significantly, Freenet generally requires > log(n) time to retrieve a piece of information in a network of size n." > line in the bullet list at the top be dropped. It's probably worth > mentioning at some point (maybe in another part of the site), but it's way > too technical for a quick summary of Freenet's features.
Maybe... But perhaps you could use something like "Freenet harnesses the power of the 'small-world' effect to ensure quick, reliable data retrieval." and then link to something a bit more technical. _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
