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Hyphanet is a private peer-to-peer platform for publishing and communication

42 points by raytopia 2y ago

Tomte 2y ago
"The original Freenet." I had forgotten about that. How was the new Freenet different?
- TiredOfLife 2y ago
  It's some kind of paid blockchain/crypto thing
  - sanity 2y ago
    This is inaccurate, Freenet has very little to do with blockchain/cryptocurrency and it's not "paid" - it's 100% open source like previous versions of Freenet. You may be thinking of "ghost keys" which aren't strictly part of the new Freenet but are complementary to it. You can find out more about ghost keys here: https://freenet.org/news/introducing-ghost-keys/ https://freenet.org/news/introducing-ghost-keys/
- sanity 2y ago
  You can find a comparison here: https://freenet.org/faq/#how-do-the-previous-and-current-versions-of-freenet-differ https://freenet.org/faq/#how-do-the-previous-and-current-ver...
tampontim 2y ago
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Towaway69 2y ago
SSL error accessing the site. Firefox on iPhone.
femto 2y ago
Freenet's FAQ explains which name applies to what and who is working on what. Basically Ian Clarke (Freenet's founder) started a new project called Locutus, whilst the original codebase/architecture continued under the Freenet name. At a later date, Locutus changed its name to Freenet, whilst the original Freenet changed its name to Hyphanet. Summary: If today you want to go with the original Freenet code/architecture, use Hyphanet. If today you want to go with the original Freenet founder, use Freenet. https://freenet.org/faq/#what-is-the-projects-history https://freenet.org/faq/#what-is-the-projects-history
- Bluestein 2y ago
  May I ask - if you know - what the merits of one vs. the other are? Or, is there a comparison somewhere?
  - sanity 2y ago
    You can find a comparison here: https://freenet.org/faq/#how-do-the-previous-and-current-versions-of-freenet-differ https://freenet.org/faq/#how-do-the-previous-and-current-ver...
    - Bluestein 2y ago
      Spot on. Appreciated.-
    - OutOfHere 2y ago
      They rewrote it in Rust.
      - sanity 2y ago
        True, although that's probably the least significant of the changes, it's a very different architecture with very different capabilities.
antman 2y ago
Pretty big blocker the lack of mobile clientss
konart 2y ago
>https://www.hyphanet.org/pages/download.html https://www.hyphanet.org/pages/download.html I'd reccomend updating those screenshots. At least to match 2014 or something. I understand that this is not some electron app to show off its UI but still...
pleurotus 2y ago
Idk man if your splash page links to Wikipedia to explain your project maybe rewrite it instead
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OutOfHere 2y ago
Why is https://github.com/hyphanet/fred https://github.com/hyphanet/fred linking to the "next" branch which is still the Java version? Where is the code for the new Rust version?
- sanity 2y ago
  That's here: https://github.com/freenet/freenet-core https://github.com/freenet/freenet-core Anything under "hyphanet" belongs to the old Java version, see https://freenet.org/ https://freenet.org/ for the new version.

42 points by raytopia 2y ago

Tomte 2y ago

"The original Freenet." I had forgotten about that. How was the new Freenet different?

TiredOfLife 2y ago
It's some kind of paid blockchain/crypto thing
- sanity 2y ago
  This is inaccurate, Freenet has very little to do with blockchain/cryptocurrency and it's not "paid" - it's 100% open source like previous versions of Freenet. You may be thinking of "ghost keys" which aren't strictly part of the new Freenet but are complementary to it. You can find out more about ghost keys here: https://freenet.org/news/introducing-ghost-keys/ https://freenet.org/news/introducing-ghost-keys/
sanity 2y ago
You can find a comparison here: https://freenet.org/faq/#how-do-the-previous-and-current-versions-of-freenet-differ https://freenet.org/faq/#how-do-the-previous-and-current-ver...

tampontim 2y ago

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Towaway69 2y ago

SSL error accessing the site. Firefox on iPhone.

femto 2y ago

Freenet's FAQ explains which name applies to what and who is working on what. Basically Ian Clarke (Freenet's founder) started a new project called Locutus, whilst the original codebase/architecture continued under the Freenet name. At a later date, Locutus changed its name to Freenet, whilst the original Freenet changed its name to Hyphanet. Summary: If today you want to go with the original Freenet code/architecture, use Hyphanet. If today you want to go with the original Freenet founder, use Freenet. https://freenet.org/faq/#what-is-the-projects-history https://freenet.org/faq/#what-is-the-projects-history

Bluestein 2y ago
May I ask - if you know - what the merits of one vs. the other are? Or, is there a comparison somewhere?
- sanity 2y ago
  You can find a comparison here: https://freenet.org/faq/#how-do-the-previous-and-current-versions-of-freenet-differ https://freenet.org/faq/#how-do-the-previous-and-current-ver...
  - Bluestein 2y ago
    Spot on. Appreciated.-
  - OutOfHere 2y ago
    They rewrote it in Rust.
    - sanity 2y ago
      True, although that's probably the least significant of the changes, it's a very different architecture with very different capabilities.

antman 2y ago

Pretty big blocker the lack of mobile clientss

konart 2y ago

>https://www.hyphanet.org/pages/download.html https://www.hyphanet.org/pages/download.html I'd reccomend updating those screenshots. At least to match 2014 or something. I understand that this is not some electron app to show off its UI but still...

pleurotus 2y ago

Idk man if your splash page links to Wikipedia to explain your project maybe rewrite it instead

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OutOfHere 2y ago

Why is https://github.com/hyphanet/fred https://github.com/hyphanet/fred linking to the "next" branch which is still the Java version? Where is the code for the new Rust version?

sanity 2y ago
That's here: https://github.com/freenet/freenet-core https://github.com/freenet/freenet-core Anything under "hyphanet" belongs to the old Java version, see https://freenet.org/ https://freenet.org/ for the new version.