FP suggestion

[pfrazee]

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.

[pfrazee]

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.

[okdistribute]

I like "Dat is fast, resilient, decentralized file-sync."

[max-mapper]

@pfrazee why'd you close this? I didn't event notice this thread till just now sorry

[pfrazee]

Oh, I assumed it didnt have any interest. I used some of it in datprotocol.com.