For new (non-technical) users it may be very difficult to understand what they really need, how to do it and how to use it.

The entry point of an application plus its visible style, the user interface aso. are playing the biggest role for acceptance nowadays.

Therefore there may be the need of a GUI (I imagine one written in XUL, so it runs on all plattforms, easily extensible, aso., we are already using a custom firefox profile so why don't write our own user interface?) that provides all mechanisms that are available throughout the freenet network. File sharing, messaging, flogs, identity management and others.

A working messaging system (FMS/Freetalk) could be included in the core Freenet project and some fraction of time could be dedicated to it.

Currently the lack of a working, trusted, bundled messaging system contrasts with good usability of core Freenet. This is an issue for end users and harms user retention, because communities cannot exist without messaging. (Some people stopped running Freenet node altogether since Frost is unavailable).

The proposal is:
- As a minimum, Freenet devs could review FMS/Freenet specs and publish an official "RFC-like" specifications for Freenet messaging. This would settle disputes over minor details. Making trusted specifications is of utmost importance too, because several messaging standards failed in the past (FMB, Frost) and both developers and users mistrust any new standard assuming it is fundamentally flawed too.

- Ideally, Matthew could spend some time (say ~3 months) working on the messaging system. This could be a good alternative to the (proposed) diversion of donations to other projects. I am sure that most people would appreciate the trade-off: getting a working messaging system, even if core Freenet schedule is delayed few months.

Via FreenetHG developers can collaborate anonymously/pseudonymously in a distributed fashion with all the advantages of distributed version control via Mercurial.

I think it would be great (and consistent with freenets idea) if freenet had an anonymous repository (for example a regularly updated clone), which people could clone to contribute anonymously.

They could then upload these clones again to let the main developers pull - and Mercurial also supports signing changesets with GnuPG, so freenethg allows to have strong authentification of the pseudonymous contributors.

- freenethg: http://127.0.0.1:8888/USK@MYLAnId-ZEyXhDGGbYOa1gOtkZZrFNTXjFl1dibLj9E,Xpu27DoAKKc8b0718E-ZteFrGqCYROe7XBBJI57pB4M,AQACAAE/pyFreenetHg/25/

- Mercurial: http://selenic.com/mercurial

You can clone the freentehg repo via

hg clone http://127.0.0.1:8888/USK@fQGiK~CfI8zO4cuNyhPRLqYZ5TyGUme8lMiRnS9TCaU,E3S1MLoeeeEM45fDLdVV~n8PCr9pt6GMq0tuH4dRP7c,AQACAAE/freenethg/73/ freenethg

(if you have Mercurial prior to 1.1, you need to use static-http://... as url. Since 1.1 Mercurial detects static-http automatically)

Because my Idia to Create a Backup System on Freenet was declined, i reinsert my primary idia in an more General Form to open a dicussion about how to do. Unfortunaty the statiscalli most criminal part of the population in my country, the politicals, trys to get control over the internet.
As vehicle they use things like gambling, (full prohibited since 2009) or the child porn dicussion. Instead of create some law to create for example full body scan in addition to the DNA scan of sexual criminals, the try to establish some working zensoring system within the internet.
Because "hacking tools" are also still criminalized (only to own this kinf of programm, also to check own installations) is illigal, it is to expect that tools like freenet will come also under prohibition like the situation in china. There must be established a strong, hard to beat fact agiast prohibition like the additional power consumption of hundert of millions data backup devices in case of a working backup system like apples time Mashine!
Look at the situation in Myranmar. First option of the goverment was, to inhibit the internet access acoss the border, to get space for repressive actions against critic opinions.
Only Noth Corean is willing to accept the buissenes malus to prohibit internet as whole - nearly all other contrys are trying to censoring more or less sucenssfull the Internet to get decision power over computer screens. The improvement of CPU power helps this countrys. This must be quit more impossible in the future. To do so, one powerfull application must locked by a big buiseness benefit. At the moment freenet is extrem voluntary against prohibition, if it becomes more popular.

version 1195 had a very fast fporxy experience if the node runing it had enough (unlimited) bandwith. Small nodes got killed by load limiting, but runing a "big" node was exciting. Never before my node did more uploads, and freenet-sites loaded immediately. It seemed that all the small nodes got killed and only "big" nodes survived, so there was some kind of "backbone". My output tripled from 50/kb to 150/kb and latency were extrem low. As test i run a second node with 15kb upload limit. Also there were a lot of fast runing requests through that small node. We cant have both, full use of upload is a killer for latency. No internet business would run a server permanently with 100% upload, we all know that a server must have "headroom" for spikes. And a node is also only a "server". So please dont run for that 100% use of upload it dont makes sense.