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Re: Show HN: An anonymous P2P social network for Android, written in Clojure

#11
Wow, this is just awesome! The app is really polished for an early beta release, especially that hidden markdown feature.

Just three things that come to my mind:

1. how long does it take to propagate updates?

2. what is the traffic consumption on mobile?

3. what about statusbar notifications?

Re: Show HN: An anonymous P2P social network for Android, written in Clojure

#12
post #9

I have been waiting for this. Here's my Nightweb link for anyone interested in experimenting with me: http://nightweb.net/#type=user&userhash=5avfzwgkdzgddsv3... gw: It would be great to have multiple personas available to me, like an inverse of google+ circles.

http://nightweb.net/#type=user&userhash=fcx2ahb4vuobu7ej...

That's mine ... awww feels like the beginnings of ICQ ;)

But ... we can hack on it ... finally a good reason to learn Clojure.

Re: Show HN: An anonymous P2P social network for Android, written in Clojure

#13
post #9

I have been waiting for this. Here's my Nightweb link for anyone interested in experimenting with me: http://nightweb.net/#type=user&userhash=5avfzwgkdzgddsv3... gw: It would be great to have multiple personas available to me, like an inverse of google+ circles.

Thanks very much. By the way, currently clicking the link in a browser doesn't seem to bring up the intent chooser to open it in the Nightweb app. I'll try to fix that today. In the meantime, the workaround is to email or text the link to yourself, and click it from there instead.

Yeah I've thought about allowing multiple users on a single device, so I'll look into that in the near future.

EDIT: I fixed the issue with clicking links in browsers. I will issue version 0.0.5 with this fix because I think it's pretty important.

Re: Show HN: An anonymous P2P social network for Android, written in Clojure

#14
post #13
post #9

I have been waiting for this. Here's my Nightweb link for anyone interested in experimenting with me: http://nightweb.net/#type=user&userhash=5avfzwgkdzgddsv3... gw: It would be great to have multiple personas available to me, like an inverse of google+ circles.

Thanks very much. By the way, currently clicking the link in a browser doesn't seem to bring up the intent chooser to open it in the Nightweb app. I'll try to fix that today. In the meantime, the workaround is to email or text the link to yourself, and click it from there instead. Yeah I've thought about allowing multiple users on a single device, so I'll look into that in the near future. EDIT: I fixed the issue wit…

you should define a separate namespace for users/posts, like a subdomain or path, for the app, right now the browser is confused when opening the homepage

Re: Show HN: An anonymous P2P social network for Android, written in Clojure

#16
post #11

Wow, this is just awesome! The app is really polished for an early beta release, especially that hidden markdown feature. Just three things that come to my mind: 1. how long does it take to propagate updates? 2. what is the traffic consumption on mobile? 3. what about statusbar notifications?

Once you've bootstrapped/integrated with the network, it takes a minute or two for a new update to reach you in my testing. The initial time to bootstrap onto the network is around five minutes.

The traffic consumption is pretty high, because it becomes a full peer on the I2P network. Over a month I would expect it to consume around 1GB or more. If this becomes an issue for people, I may add the ability to be a non-contributing peer.

Re: Show HN: An anonymous P2P social network for Android, written in Clojure

#18
post #14
post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks very much. By the way, currently clicking the link in a browser doesn't seem to bring up the intent chooser to open it in the Nightweb app. I'll try to fix that today. In the meantime, the workaround is to email or text the link to yourself, and click it from there instead. Yeah I've thought about allowing multiple users on a single device, so I'll look into that in the near future. EDIT: I fixed the issue wit…

you should define a separate namespace for users/posts, like a subdomain or path, for the app, right now the browser is confused when opening the homepage

I think it deserves it's own protocol nightweb:// . Will also make it easier for th iOS port later ;)

Re: Show HN: An anonymous P2P social network for Android, written in Clojure

#19
post #16
post #11

Wow, this is just awesome! The app is really polished for an early beta release, especially that hidden markdown feature. Just three things that come to my mind: 1. how long does it take to propagate updates? 2. what is the traffic consumption on mobile? 3. what about statusbar notifications?

Once you've bootstrapped/integrated with the network, it takes a minute or two for a new update to reach you in my testing. The initial time to bootstrap onto the network is around five minutes. The traffic consumption is pretty high, because it becomes a full peer on the I2P network. Over a month I would expect it to consume around 1GB or more. If this becomes an issue for people, I may add the ability to be a non-c…

You might want to add a status text to the service notification, displaying how far bootstrapping is..

Please make the non-contributing status the default then, or at least ask the user on installation... capped data plans are still the default in many places... :(

Re: Show HN: An anonymous P2P social network for Android, written in Clojure

#20
post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

you should define a separate namespace for users/posts, like a subdomain or path, for the app, right now the browser is confused when opening the homepage

I think it deserves it's own protocol nightweb:// . Will also make it easier for th iOS port later ;)

Using a nightweb.net http url on the other hand would allow a read-only web access to the service, increasing conversion rates ;)
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