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

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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

May I ask - if you know - what the merits of one vs. the other are? Or, is there a comparison somewhere?

You can find a comparison here: https://freenet.org/faq/#how-do-the-previous-and-current-ver...

Spot on. Appreciated.-

They rewrote it in Rust.

True, although that's probably the least significant of the changes, it's a very different architecture with very different capabilities.

>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...

Why is 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?

That's here: https://github.com/freenet/freenet-core

Anything under "hyphanet" belongs to the old Java version, see https://freenet.org/ for the new version.

"The original Freenet."

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

It's some kind of paid blockchain/crypto thing

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/

You can find a comparison here: https://freenet.org/faq/#how-do-the-previous-and-current-ver...

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

SSL error accessing the site. Firefox on iPhone.

Pretty big blocker the lack of mobile clientss

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