Matthew Toseland wrote:
> The one and only Freenet search index has been updated, apparently on
> Saturday. So we now have a maintained XMLLibrarian index again. I dunno how
> he managed it given the bugs reported and apparently not yet fixed in the
> spider. I have updated it in XMLLibrarian's default index, and also added it
> to the default bookmarks list.
>
> What priority should we give to:
> 1) Fixing any remaining serious bugs in XMLSpider? (Most likely client layer
> bugs that should not be tackled before db4o is merged)?
> 2) Integrating XMLLibrarian into the Browse Freenet page as a search box?
> 3) Supporting XMLLibrarian search boxes in freesites?
> 4) Supporting multiple indexes, adding indexes from freesites etc?
>
> Most of these are fairly easy items.
Most probably a lot of people who say "there is not enough content on Freenet
for me" would be less likely to say that if presented with the ability to
search.
I doubt that old-timers will really care one way or another (i probably won't),
but new user retention will increase.
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