Matthew Toseland wrote: > We're simply not ready to implement opennet. Oskar has shown no interest > whatsoever in it, and without a sound theoretical basis we can't and > won't do it. Also load balancing would probably be different and routing > churn would likely be much more severe. In any case there is no reason why > organic growth can't happen if Freenet provides something of value. The > fact that it is so small and has so little functionality that it doesn't > is purely a short term problem.
I agree with this. If 0.7 works as "well" as 0.5 did, I don't think it will ever grow to usable size. On the other hand, I have already seen it work much better than 0.5 ever did for me, so I think given enough time (1 year? possible even longer) to squash bugs and polish the code, I see no reason why organic growth would not happen. The only reason I haven't yet gotten my irl friends to use freenet is due to the alpha nature of it, but with a mature codebase I would not hesitate to introduce them, and I'm convinced many of them would continue to run nodes, and even invite friends of their own. --- John B?ckstrand
