On Friday 13 June 2008 14:26, Ian Clarke wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Matthew Toseland > <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote: > > On Friday 13 June 2008 13:54, Ian Clarke wrote: > >> On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 6:51 AM, Matthew Toseland > >> <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote: > >> > Should we change insecure/secure mode to visible/invisible mode? > >> > >> I don't think that really helps any. > >> > >> Perhaps stick with the "friends" and "strangers" metaphor, and have > >> "friends only" mode, and "friends and strangers" modes? > > > > Okay, so what would the warning say? > > > > Strangers only mode enabled: Please get some Friends > > Well, perhaps - except it wouldn't be "strangers only", because you > can still connect to friends. It would need to be "friends and > strangers" mode, or perhaps "anyone" mode.
Surely that would depend on whether we have actually added some Friends? > > > Freenet is currently only connecting to nodes run by people you do not know. > > Well, even if you have some friends, we still need the warning. The > issue is if you are connected to *anyone* you don't know, even if all > but one of them are friends. Again, we can have several different wordings. > > > Please use the Friends page to get some connections to people you know by > > exchanging your noderefs (at the bottom of the page). Once you have at least > > 10 connections to Friends, you can disable Strangers mode and your node will > > become invisible and much harder to attack or block. > > Yes. > > > One worry here is that users won't read the full message, they'll just see the > > short form (as we only display the short form on the homepage) and then go to > > Frost or IRC or something?? > > > > We could display some form of this on the last page of the wizard, as well as > > in a useralert. The user is probably more inclined to read it there??? > > Perhaps on the friends page we should have some simple guidelines > about what constitutes a "friend". > > Ian. > > -- > Email: ian at uprizer.com > Cell: +1 512 422 3588 > Skype: sanity > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20080614/8c87108e/attachment.pgp>
