On Wednesday 22 April 2009 21:39:29 Evan Daniel wrote: > The other obvious use is converting visitors to users :) > > I think the best way to do that would be to dramatically improve the > documentation surrounding what users can do with Freenet. I believe > the biggest turnoff to new users is that the question "why should I > bother?" is not well answered unless the user has fairly strong ideals > about privacy.
That is unfortunately innate in Freenet IMHO. Right now it is very far from being a fast, secure and reliable means to distribute data. This is not a problem that marketing will solve, but we need users and funds to solve it. > > That combined with the observation that writing good, up to date > documentation takes time, and FPI is short on developer time, says to > me that making the wiki a prominent portion of the web site would be a > good idea. I would count myself as an interested observer and user of > Freenet, knowledgeable enough to improve the wiki, but not a > developer. I don't have time to do a major overhaul of the wiki > myself, but I have time to make occasional improvements. However, if > it isn't a form of documentation that is seen as important by the > developers as a group, then I don't particularly think it's worth my > time to improve something that most users will never see. Leaving the > wiki in an obscure corner of the website that very few users see is an > excellent way to ensure that it forever remains out of date and of > minimal usefulness. We probably should link to the wiki, but Ian is in favour of reducing the number of links to an absolute minimum, and has given some fairly good reasons for this ... ??? > > Evan Daniel -------------- 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/tech/attachments/20090423/024b2af0/attachment.pgp>
