On Monday 17 August 2009 19:58:29 Artefact2 wrote: > On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 08:38:00PM +0100, Matthew Toseland wrote: > > Should we link to any more Freenet apps maintained anonymously on > > the default bookmarks? E.g. what is jFreesite, is it worth > > linking to? What about pyFreenetHg? What about this new > > IRC-over-Freenet thing people are telling me about? Etc... > > Hello toad_, and sorry for responding to that old message (I just read > it for the first time today).
I have absolutely no issue with responding to old messages. :) > > Well, I am the author of jFreesite. So jFreesite is not maintained > anonymously. I created a repo on Github so anyone can grab the source. > I also put the jars on the Freenet network, in case grabbing the sources > from github might be dangerous (that might reveal you use Freenet). Okay, so we can link to it, and we should maybe think about reviewing and publishing it on the website sometime. > > Well, I'm not currently improving jFreesite right now because it is > usable and have the features I need. I don't want to make jFreesite a > heavy app. There must still be bugs, I guess. But AFAIK I solved > anything I encountered while I was testing and debugging my app. FCP > support might be improved, but it works ATM. > > So, if you want to include a link in FProxy's "Insert" page, or just > talk about it on the website, why not. If you trust me enough, you can > test it. If you don't want to, it's just a simpler, easier to use > Thingamablog (and it makes any type of freesites, not only flogs). > Fascinating... What we really need in this area IMHO is a web-based blogging interface: - It must be as easy to use for a newbie as the centralised blogging sites, for writing blogs. - It must support basic blog features - sort by date, tags, etc. - It must have a web interface so it can integrate into fred as a plugin, and add itself to the Browse menu. IMHO this is important, and http://freenet.uservoice.com/ seems to agree. - It should have at least two themes, and the default should look reasonable. - It must support embedding pictures, linking to other freesites, and linking to arbitrary files. Eventually we will have embedded video, but that will require more work on other parts of fred. - *Eventually* it will need integration with Freetalk, for posting comments, for announcing it in the first place, and maybe for the whole blog to be just showing somebody's top level posts... But p0s has a lot of work to do on Freetalk/WoT, and IMHO the earlier we have an easy to use blog tool integrated into the UI the better. IMHO this would not be a big job, maybe a couple of days for a reasonably competent programmer, and it would both improve user retention and result in more freesites being published. I have a similar system in 800 lines of php sent to me by an associate, so it's really not hard. We should still link to the third party tools as alternatives, of course. When you're not busy with writing fred themes, would you be interested? -------------- 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/20090826/1eee03b0/attachment.pgp>
