Installer Feedback ( Windows)

Landing page has lots of info, but still hard to find what I wanted ( windows download)
could we have a search button?
having "Download" option in 2 places is confusing

-This was helpful javaimage

the Windows install guide was really helpful. -I felt like there was a lot of software that was "making changes" on my laptop.
there needs to be an uninstall guide added to FAQ or Help that is clear and easy to find.

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the colours in the logo could be used somehow / more across the site in some way to guide the user.

-The set up wizard is welcoming.

for bandwidth config/ and measurement: is there a way to know if using I2P will affect performance for people who have bandwidth limits? To decide on the default is maybe questionable in some cases if there is not better idea of how running I2P may interact with performance of other apps, activities.

Since I2P requires the I2P software, Java, and a browser ( Firefox) that needs to be configured, it is different workflow for most people. This is a good opportunity to figure out a fun way to present this like privacy lego =)

In the Java reference router/application suite project we're building up a sort of wishlist of things which we think are important to roadmap for a version 1.0.0 release of I2P. One major priority will be migration from our current installer structure, which uses a tool called 'izpack5' to build a purely java-based installer for all platforms, to a newer tool called 'jpackage' which builds installers which speak the language of the platform's packaging tool, so for Windows this would be the .msi installer format, for MacOSX, the .dmg image format. One of the most important practical outcomes of this is that we will no longer need java to be present to run the installer itself, and can thus use the installer itself to install the subset of Java packages required to run I2P. The outcome of this is that we can finally build an installer which does not require the additional step of installing Java on Windows and OSX. That should remove about 6 "clicks" from the install process overall, basically all the Java clicks. This might be something we can manage for the 0.9.50 release, that would be a major benefit for all of us.

Shoalsteed / UX

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