I wonder how hard it would be to get running on a small heroku instance just for fun...
Diaspora Developer Release
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#12They really need to do something about that name. They seem to be having trouble with it themselves: http://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/commit/708e9f88a55cc3713...
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#13Sweet Jesus. Please publish a security reporting page at the earliest possible convenience, because this will have private info on it within a day from now, and that is a very bad idea right now.
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#14I'm impressed and surprised that they have released code. I worried that the initial flurry of money and hype would derail them. Many projects never get this far, and for this, they deserve to be commended. They've built something and dealt with a lot of external pressure at the same time.
Apparently they spent some of the money on working with LUXr and Pivotal Labs. The best technical solution can be derailed by a poor user interface and experience. It looks like they avoided that.
See earlier update for more information; http://www.joindiaspora.com/2010/08/26/overdue-update.html
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#15It seems to be AGPL licensed. I'm wondering how that will affect adoption.
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#16They really need to do something about that name. They seem to be having trouble with it themselves: http://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/commit/708e9f88a55cc3713...
You're unfortunately right. I say unfortunate because I really, really like the name: it sounds good and conveys their mission very well, but ease of spelling is probably paramount.
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#17What Diaspora really needs now is some startup, some well-known developers, or the Diaspora crew themselves to stand up and say "Okay, now we're going to use this framework to build a very real social network." Until then, it's just some people building out some cool ideas. Don't get me wrong, that's great; it's just hard to rally around it without getting something concrete behind it.
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#18They really need to do something about that name. They seem to be having trouble with it themselves: http://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/commit/708e9f88a55cc3713...
It's not that bad. It was a typo in a file template. Of course it's gonna propagate quickly.
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#19For some reason I thought that development was being done in php. Other than that I'm somewhat dismayed that their open source release isn't actually running on some site and says run at your own risk due to security issues. Edit: (Looks like there is a demo in the comments here but not open to sign up) Hopefully development continues quick enough that it escapes into the public before the tech hype is gone.
I also thought it was going to be in PHP - they definitely mentioned that at some point, but once I saw their website was written in Ruby, I suspected they might be moving in a different direction...
Good to see they hit their release date, and I look forward to messing around with it, even though I know more PHP than Ruby ;)
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#20I wonder how hard it would be to get running on a small heroku instance just for fun...
Well I believe heroku includes ImageMagick by default, so it seems the only dependency would by MongoDB. Has anyone ever used the MongoHQ add-on? http://addons.heroku.com/mongohq