docs: stop calling the browser version a centralized demo - #125
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try.freenet.org is not a centralized demo. It serves the real River contract (raAqMhMG7KUpXBU2SxgCQ3Vh4PYjttxdSWd9ftV7RLv) from a real Freenet peer we run, proxied over HTTPS, and drops the visitor into the same Freenet Official room that people running their own peers are in. Calling it "a centralized demo running on our server" told visitors their session was a mock-up of Freenet rather than Freenet itself. The real caveat is narrower and is now what the copy says: you are borrowing our peer instead of running your own, so your keys live on our peer rather than your machine. The existing encryption claim and the one-click export to your own peer are unchanged. Touched: home hero note, /try/ warning + closing section, /quickstart/ intro + firewall note, and the hosted variant of the invite-button shortcode. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XEDrq8JfrpombSbrPnekSX
The comment above .cta-note still explained the rule as "never imply the demo is decentralized", which was the framing the previous commit removed. Reword it to the actual caveat: the browser option runs on a peer we host, so the visitor's keys live with us. Comment only, no rendered output change. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XEDrq8JfrpombSbrPnekSX
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Ran an independent accuracy review of the new copy (Light tier; copy-only diff, no logic). Verified against the live deployment rather than the docs:
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Its screenshot was live at /slides/futo/river-screenshot.png and carried a DIRECT MESSAGES panel naming a contributor, a stale "Atlas (search engine)" room topic, and a pinned line calling the browser version "centralized and thus somewhat misses the point of Freenet" - which #125 had explicitly corrected, so the site said one thing in prose and the opposite in an image. Found while reviewing the hero screenshot in #165. Retired rather than recaptured at Ian's direction; River is still covered by private-rooms and private-rooms-limits immediately after it in the deck. Deck serves 200 with 20 top-level slides (was 21), no broken images, no page errors, and no remaining reference to the slide, the image, "DIRECT MESSAGES" or "misses the point of Freenet" in the rendered output. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Cwq3ZRYFqSW9rMtGJYqfo2
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Problem
The site told visitors the browser version of River was a centralized demo:
and, on
/try/:That is misleading.
try.freenet.orgis a real Freenet peer we run, fronted byfreenet-gateway-proxy. A visitor there loads the real River web contract(
raAqMhMG7KUpXBU2SxgCQ3Vh4PYjttxdSWd9ftV7RLv) and joins the same Freenet Officialroom that people running their own peers are in. Messages go over the real network. Nothing
about the app or the network is a mock-up, so "centralized demo" told visitors their session
was a simulation of Freenet rather than Freenet itself.
Approach
Say the accurate, narrower thing: you are using our peer instead of your own, so your keys
live on our peer rather than your machine — and that is the reason to install.
Existing claims that are still true were left alone: the access-key encryption line on
/try/,the one-click export to your own peer, and the firewall-fallback note in the quickstart.
Files changed (copy only, no logic):
content/_index.md— home hero note under the CTA rowcontent/try/_index.md— the warning callout and the closing section ("Ready for the real thing?" → "Ready to run your own peer?")content/quickstart/_index.md— "look before installing" intro, and "hosted demo" → "browser version" in the firewall notethemes/freenet/layouts/shortcodes/river-invite-button.html— thehosted="true"variant's noteTesting
hugo --minifybuilds clean; new copy verified in the renderedpublic/index.htmlandpublic/try/index.html. No logic touched.[AI-assisted - Claude]