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296 votes
Write a killer file-sharing application
The title essentially says it all. Freenet would increase notably in popularity if it could be used to reliably and efficiently share files. This would at a minimum entail (a) a good search engine and (b) a mechanism to preserve the integrity of files. The latter could either be reinsertion of mi... more
Status: under reviewIt is very far from easy to determine whether a file will be available without requesting it. Any mechanism which allows this will open up new attack vectors. However, infinity0's work on searching is well on the way towards a distributed, spam-resistant WoT-based search engine suitable for filesharing. Spam is a big problem on all filesharing networks, hence the centralised forum-based tracker sites; we may be able to reproduce something like that, but anonymous.
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289 votes
one GUI for all
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 ... more
Status: startedWe are working on improving the web interface, and integrating more functionality into it - particularly Freetalk, but also an easy blogging tool. The WoT backend should become a semi-official plugin loadable from the plugins page and auto-updated this week; Artefact2's blogging tool is working fairly well although doesn't have comment support yet.
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194 votes
Add a 'pause' feature
It would be cool if it was possible to 'pause' a freenet node. I mean, stop all network traffic, warn peers that we are on pause, but keep the node alive.
That would allow short downtimes for online gaming without the hassle of having to restart the node and wait for it becoming usable again.
Status: plannedThis is a good idea, somewhat technically challenging but we have several possibilities for implementing it.
Also, on Mac and Windows, we now have a system tray icon, which allows the user to conveniently start or stop Freenet.
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187 votes
Implement reinsert on demand
Provide a "reinsert on demand" feature, similar to FreemulET implementation, but as a standard feature.
This would improve sharing of large files, and would make sharing of rarely requested files more reliable.
There are doubts whether on-demand reinsert poses some anonymity risks, bu... more
Status: under reviewWe are working on improving data retrieval, and have made some progress. Further improvements are planned. There are several backend features (e.g. whole file checksums) that would help insert-on-demand filesharing apps, which we will probably implement in 0.9. Also see "write a killer file-sharing app".
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182 votes
use the port 80,443,53,1863 for comunication
Some of us, "live" behind a restrictive firewall, mine only accepts Http conections and drops others then i cannot connect to the freenet, can you implement standart ports like 80,443,53,1863, etc for connection???
Status: plannedThis requires transport plugins, which may not happen until after 1.0. When we do have transport plugins, we could not only support TCP, but we could also disguise traffic as valid HTTP data to get around proxies.
I'm amazed how highly this is ranked, are people having real difficulty getting Freenet to work on their ISPs?
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113 votes
Make FMS/Freetalk part of the Freenet project
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 ... more
Status: startedGenerally agree. Freetalk is being implemented by p0s, I am reviewing his commits, he has recently posted a spec and this is being negotiated with FMS folks. Freetalk will be an important part of 0.8. WoT (the backend web of trust system) will be loadable from the plugins page soon, and hopefully Freetalk will be official and bundled shortly after Christmas.
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92 votes
freenet linux
I would like to see a linux distribution, prolly based on debian or ubuntu, that has freenet and other aspects of cryptography deeply integrated into the system from first install. I feel it is very important to get as many people on freenet as possible, but it is a complicated concept to grasp ... more
How would making a livecd or other form of distribution make Freenet a less complicated concept? It would be useful to have an easily deployable node however, using a USB stick or swap space... But this is out of scope for the project proper, maybe some volunteer will build it. And *you will still need to complete the wizard in any case* to specify your security settings, and you might need to specify which drives to use etc.
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82 votes
Really easy system to add friend-connections.
It would be nice if it's a lot easier to make friends connections. If darknet is more secure, I think it should get more attention.
Find out and try to solve: Why are people not making friend connections?
One possibility would be that person A could have a (by Freenet generated) link in there si... moreStatus: plannedSomething like this is planned eventually, (the original poster misses some complexities), unfortunately mostly we can't focus on darknet at the moment. Volunteers welcome otherwise wait until 0.9/0.10.
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74 votes
Add an anonymous code repository via freenethg
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 update... more
Freenet has switched to git. Both mercurial and git can be inserted to Freenet, and support distributed workflows well. I believe that the repository has actually been inserted by a few people, I don't know whether it is kept up to date.
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66 votes
Create a Mac installer
Mac users expect to download a DMG file image containing an application that they can then drag to their Applications folder. Freenet should be distributed in this way for Mac users.
The main problem with this is that a DMG or more likely a PKG cannot be produced except on a Mac, and would have to be reconstructed on every new stable build. Given very few of the devs have Mac's, this is not an immediately solvable problem...
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52 votes
Bandwith scale based on time
Hi, currently I can configure how much upload and download bandwidth freenet may use. I am running my node 24/7, but I am not working 24/7 at my system. During day I need the bandwidth to do my work, but during night freenet may use much more bandwidth.
What I am asking for is a configuration opt... moreStatus: plannedThis has been planned for some time. Somebody started on it but had to give up ...
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51 votes
embed Freenet into Vuze/Azureus to gain critical mass
rather than creating a new platform from scratch: consider freenet as an OEM technology and embed it into a leader P2P client
Clearly Freenet is rather heavyweight to be standard with Azureus, and also rather slow. But we will think about it. Update: a student has implemented this once...
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50 votes
Create a secure Freemail programm to read and write them without any other programms needed!
There must be a way to read and write freemails easy secure and encrypted!
It is to hard to get Freemail running and i need something like Thunderbird for it.
In Thunderbird Mails are not encrypted and mixed with normal Mails !
And i can clearlly see which account and name is used!Make it ... more
Status: plannedA proper webmail interface for Freemail is planned.
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49 votes
TCP transport plugin
TCP transport plugin. TCP is much easier to work with router, and transport plugin give us possibility to have freenet-over-https or other less suspicious protocol
Status: plannedPlanned ... eventually!
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46 votes
Show current money available
I would really like to have an open feeling about where donations are going to. Please show on the freenet site the following information:
--> Current money available / balance
--> Money received last month from small donations
--> Money received last month from big donations (like from... more -
42 votes
freenet wiki
include some kind of alternative to wikipedia for freenet that should be a very good tool against censorship
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41 votes
make Freetalk fully compatible with openJDK
Frost didn't work with OpenJDK, and required the installation of the Sun Java.
I think it would be a good point if Freenet/Freetalk were 100 percent compatible with fully open source systems, such as Debian, OpenBSD etc.
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40 votes
Portable Freenet
Hello,
It would be a great step forward for Freenet if you could make it portable.
This would allow people to install on portable encrypted hard drives or containers and increase security much, much more.
At the moment Freenet creates a user account and leaves other traces that would do no one... more
Most applications need admin rights to install on Windows. On unix, Freenet is self-contained within the installing user. More broadly, we don't really want to encourage people to run Freenet for a few hours a day here and there behind other people's NATs as low uptime is very problematic for the network; if you do need to run Freenet from a webcafe, use a laptop.
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39 votes
Official plugin should be described
at http://127.0.0.1:8888/plugins/ you can load official plugins. But there's no easy place where to see a (short) description for them. Please take care of user interface (and easy of use) a bit more.
The first-time user will abandon the software if it is not easy to manage.Status: plannedPlanned feature:
https://bugs.freenetproject.org/view.php?id=2566
