On Wednesday 13 Apr 2011 14:13:29 Ian Clarke wrote: > http://freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=383&report=97 > > These guys did extensive surveys in various countries. Freenet came out > on-top in China. Might be worth a news story on the website.
How the hell do we get 5 stars on ease of use *and* on performance, in subjective ratings from Chinese users? IMHO neither is credible. Something very fishy here. Is there another Freenet out there? Is the freenet-china still up? I don't get the impression that we have a huge community of chinese speakers on the main Freenet, at least if there is it's somewhat invisible? Note that the evaluations from other countries are much lower. And there's no direct analysis of Freenet in their larger paper. Although the Chinese seem to be ideal for Freenet in that they tend to have both home PCs *and* broadband (even if it doesn't generally allow for 24x7 operation as it's usually time limited). Also maybe they're a bit geekier than the rest? The spread of evaluations is relatively narrow on most of their graphs mind you ... Also, expect trouble from the censors if they read this. E.g. blocking the seednodes... the chinese numbers might just reflect the fact that there have increasingly been difficulties accessing Google lately, and Tor has been mostly blocked - so in terms of objective performance, until the Chinese block our seednodes we may well be the best option for *getting a connection of some kind*. I'm not sure how their questionnaire that these numbers are supposedly based on fits with Freenet, it asks about blocked websites... Maybe it's an artefact of the survey design? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20110413/add71c0f/attachment.pgp>
