dat-ecosystem-archive
FP suggestion
Joe showed me the current beta site (that announces dat-desktop). It's looking really good!
I wanted to make a suggestion for the front-page. Dat is awesome because it's P2P with usability and vision. I think the beta-site does a great job illustrating the usability, but it de-emphasizes the vision and ecosystem a bit.
This is the Information Architecture that I'd suggest:
Summarized: Lead with vision, mention the grant-funding, show all of the software options, and then show the content communities. (Until we have more than one content community, the current "Shared with dat" is good.)
Then I might put a section saying why dat was created -- a shortened part of the about -- and then I'd continue with the "Built with care" and down that's currently on the FP.
I know I'm being a meddling pain with this; I just want everything to be as strong as possible. (Doesn't mean all my ideas are good.)
The "(Mad) Science" title is a bad placeholder. I spent some time thinking about the premise of "dat makes p2p usable"... and here's a better title with that idea:
"Dat is fast, resilient, decentralized file-sync."
No frilly thing like "p2p web." It's what dat is -- file-sync -- and why it matters: fast, resilient, decentralized. And then you could toss in explainers on each, somewhere else. Ie:
- Fast: Dat is peer-to-peer, so you can sync from multiple computers at once.
- Resilient: Dats can change hosts without changing their URLs.
- Decentralized: Host files from your computer over the wifi, then push to the cloud.
@pfrazee why'd you close this? I didn't event notice this thread till just now sorry
Oh, I assumed it didnt have any interest. I used some of it in datprotocol.com.