🚀 go-pugleaf

So, what you're saying is that CWRU should have kept it less accessible
and maintained a higher level of censorship, with little fiefdoms where one
(or a small number 5 or less) decided what's appropriate for their individual
community to view?  

I know you're feeling sentimental, I do to sometimes too, and no I wasn't involved
in the maintenance of Freenet past it's glory years.  

But let's not ignore that large scale censorship is fraught with problems, too...
such as...

needing a large staff to arbitrate the large resulting number of disputes
on the cases that aren't obvious

once you enter into it you're likely to get sued both for cases where you didn't
exercise your censorship powers and for those where you did, as each party will
feel wronged by your actions

Censorship issues aside, there's still the main point that I had about it not 
being slick and graphical.  How many other text based BBS's are heavily used 
these days?  I'd suspect the number is orders of magnitude smaller now than 
it was in 1995...

Like it or not we're in a point and click world now and being a private source of
funding there was just no way to fund the upgrades both in hardware as well as 
software to make the Cleveland Freenet adapt...