On Wednesday 22 April 2009 13:53:45 Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Am Mittwoch 22 April 2009 14:38:29 schrieb Matthew Toseland: > > > other member of the group as freenet friends, or should they only have > > > their closest contacts? > > > > I don't know. IMHO 150 is probably too much, have you spoken privately to > > all these people? > > I think all people I know privately, including school and university, account > for maybe 100 to 120 people. Of them I'd trust about 40 as connections :) > > If I add people I only know via email, these numbers go up to maybe 150/50.
IMHO that would be great - any of the above figures - especially when you take into account uptime problems. Practically speaking most people you know won't run Freenet. However, all the members of a mailing list or a university department isn't quite the same thing - 150 people for just one group, plus all the other groups and people... > > > > If they should have more contacts, we'll need stronger friend interaction > > > features, so we can keep the cost for social interaction with friends > > > low. > > > > We need stronger friend interaction features full stop. > > How about a shoutbox as first step? > > There you can send messages to all your contacts. > > Naturally each shoutbox will have different entries, so it's no real chat, but > at least it would allow giving quick status messages (that's the main > communication i did: "Sorry, my box was down for a day - I'm up again" :) Well, you can check the box next to each peer ... but yes we should improve this. This might be related to vive's student's task? > > > > A Jabber server which automatically adds all friends as contacts would be > > > an option, I think. > > > > Hmmm perhaps. > > It would also add better information about online contacts - directly in the > multi-messenger people use anyways. > > Maybe it could even get control features, like the jabber server from > livejournal (you can post LJ entries via jabber). > > Another option would be IRC :) > > But both have the drawback of drawing people away from the webinterface, which > increases the maintenance cost for toad. Not sure I follow. > > Best wishes, > Arne -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 835 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20090422/de2d5dcf/attachment.pgp>
