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Demo: http://tom.joindiaspora.com/ user: tom password: evankorth
Seems very slow... Not loading for me.
Also, said account's avatar looks like some kinda of three-way orgy. Not investigating that image farther...
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Seems very slow... Not loading for me.
It looks like someone created an account named "Mark Suckerberg" and automated a posting flood repeating the text "I accidentally.. the whole economy". Also, said account's avatar looks like some kinda of three-way orgy. Not investigating that image farther...
They are building social networking software which means that at some point the goal will need to be to get everyone and their mother on board. Because they built the app on Rails, they are now facing an uphill battle with distribution as there are not a lot of places that you can easily setup a Rails site. I love Rails but for this type of app, it might have helped them gain traction faster if it was built on PHP, o…
Rails is a perfectly good target for this, IMHO; I'm a Python guy and would have preferred Django, but that's a bikeshed as far as I'm concerned. And, for a dev release, depending on a just-released version of a major framework isn't a huge deal, as long as they understand that it's going to be a barrier to entry for quite a few people until distributions have caught up.
I was kinda of expecting more with a funding, an office, and a semi large team. I have personally been working with my co-founder with zero funding on a MMORPG social start-up that brings the best features of Facebook to another group of people. We have implemented real-time features through Erlang (including Chat and Streams), data collection/aggregation from games, and far more. ( http://www.guildwork.com/blog/ if…
I wonder how hard it would be to get running on a small heroku instance just for fun...
It works.
heroku addons:add mongohq:free
What 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.
They really need to do something about that name. They seem to be having trouble with it themselves: http://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/commit/708e9f88a55cc3713...
[1] I use exciting not as personal excitement here but by the community excitement around these projects. Whether its press coverage, developer buy in or user elation.
i don't understand their vision and sifting through their blog posts and faq for 5-10 minutes did not teach me. can anyone articulate it?
I was kinda of expecting more with a funding, an office, and a semi large team. I have personally been working with my co-founder with zero funding on a MMORPG social start-up that brings the best features of Facebook to another group of people. We have implemented real-time features through Erlang (including Chat and Streams), data collection/aggregation from games, and far more. ( http://www.guildwork.com/blog/ if…
If you aren't familiar with "The Mythical Man Month", you should probably acquaint yourself with it.
Money and more help can solve some problems.