Please look at what I've put up at the moment: "Share files, chat on forums, browse and publish, anonymously and without fear of blocking or censorship! Then connect to your friends for even better security!"
On Friday 08 Jul 2011 01:14:00 Steve Dougherty wrote: > I think "sites" is better - it portrays the website-like properties. > "Pages" has a relative connotation of disconnectedness. > > "without fear" in the first part seems overly emotional. It's plain english, isn't that a good thing? What's your alternative? > It isn't clear from > this that a darknet is connecting only to one's friends. Do you mean running > darknet and opennet simultaneously? "Even better" security makes the > assertion of "anonymously and without fear" seem a large exaggeration. How > about something like: > > Share files, chat on forums, and browse and publish sites, anonymously and > without blocking or censorship. Use "darknet" mode to connect only to your > friends for improved security. Darknet is jargon. Jargon is bad but sometimes unavoidable, but it's especially bad at this point. > > Is it okay to mention attackers? The threat of attacks on privacy or person > are arguably the reason for the security, but it makes the whole ordeal seem > stressful. IMHO explicitly mentioning attackers would be bad here yes. > The exclamation marks come off as overly enthusiastic to me. Well maybe we should get rid of the sentence about darknet completely then? > > On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Matthew Toseland <toad at > amphibian.dyndns.org > > wrote: > > > Three different versions of the text at the top of the website recently. > > My favoured option: > > > > Share files, chat on forums and browse and publish sites, anonymously and > > without fear of blocking or censorship! Then connect to your friends in > > "darknet" mode for even better security! > > > > (Is pages better than sites? It makes sense to avoid jargon here...) > > > > Previous: > > (* = bold, ** = mouseover for "web sites accessible only through Freenet") > > > > Freenet lets you *anonymously* *share* files, browse and *publish* > > freesites** and *chat* on forums, without fear of censorship. Freenet is a > > peer to peer network with no central servers to make it less vulnerable to > > attack, and if used in "*darknet*" mode, where users only connect to their > > friends, is very difficult to detect or block. > > > > Before that: > > > > Freenet is free software which lets you *anonymously* *share* files, browse > > and *publish* freesites** and *chat* on forums, without fear of censorship. > > Freenet is *decentralised* to make it less vulnerable to attack, and if used > > in "*darknet*" mode, where users only connect to their friends, is very > > difficult to detect. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Devl mailing list > > Devl at freenetproject.org > > http://freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > > > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20110709/03290f1e/attachment.pgp>
