Re: [circle] Resumption of adwords

[Greg Fortune]

On Friday 06 June 2003 12:26 am, you wrote:
> Paul.
>
> Sorry for the message I am going to write but : circle is not ready for
> prime time development. We need to make it as easy and stable to use as

Agreed

> things such as emule. I tried to convince some of my friends to use it and
> I will tell you, they all dropped it as it was not stable and polished
> enough.
>
> Like it or not, the UI need redoing, the stability improving (you want it

The UI is the single weakest point in circle and probably the largest barrier 
against adoption.  Also, with the recent release of names by Verizon with 
respect to file sharing, new users will also be looking for file sharing/chat 
programs that make their identity more difficult to determine.

My feelings are that a drastically improved UI should be the main target for 
the 1.0 release.  Then as Thomas suggested, the 1.0 release should be 
advertised.  If there is a possiblity of making circle more anonymous (maybe 
a model like Freenet would be a good example that circle could adapt), I 
suggest that release information for circle loudly proclaim features 
protecting identity online are in progress.


> to be able to run in the background for days without memory or cpu hug),
> and then we can hope to get critical mass. If you advertise too much now
> you will probably do more harm than good to the project.

At the very least, it will not be cost effective.

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Greg