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Public Diaspora Seed is up, but buggy.

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Re: Public Diaspora Seed is up, but buggy.

#11

Post by Rhapso »

Qz wrote: post #9
Rhapso wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://openspora.com/people/ is a really usefull page. I am Meno@openspora.com.

I went there and got: Please, stop that. We've been notified about this issue and we'll take a look at it shortly. Does not bode well.

I think I broke it by posting it here. Still works for me whilst logged in.

Re: Public Diaspora Seed is up, but buggy.

#13

Post by Torn »

Rhapso wrote: post #11
Qz wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I went there and got: Please, stop that. We've been notified about this issue and we'll take a look at it shortly. Does not bode well.

I think I broke it by posting it here. Still works for me whilst logged in.

Site completely unresponsive now. Oops.

We're sorry, but something went wrong (500) ... Please, stop that.

We've been notified about this issue and we'll take a look at it shortly.

Re: Public Diaspora Seed is up, but buggy.

#14

Post by patio11 »

cryptoz wrote: post #2

There's absolutely no description anywhere on those pages about what it is. I happen to know what Diaspora is, but if this link gets passed around outside of this community people will be confused and immediately form a negative opinion of the service. At least put up a "What is Diaspora?" link to their homepage or Wikipedia or something...

people will be confused and immediately form a negative opinion of the service.

Trust me, if they understood it was supposed to be the privacy-aware Facebook alternative and started using it, they would have a much more negative impression within, oh, I give it less than 48 hours.

Re: Public Diaspora Seed is up, but buggy.

#17

Post by Goronmon »

crad wrote: post #15

Is this an official site of the project or someone just running their code on a new domain? The DNS registration doesn't even come close to the joindiaspora.com domain. Seems there's at least a few sites like this: http://trydiaspora.com http://openspora.com Any others?

AFAIK, this has nothing to do with the diaspora team, it's just random people tossing up public instances.

Re: Public Diaspora Seed is up, but buggy.

#18

Post by Rhapso »

Torn wrote: post #13
Rhapso wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think I broke it by posting it here. Still works for me whilst logged in.

Site completely unresponsive now. Oops. We're sorry, but something went wrong (500) ... Please, stop that. We've been notified about this issue and we'll take a look at it shortly.

this merits the age old question: Is the server too light? or is the code too heavy?

Re: Public Diaspora Seed is up, but buggy.

#19

Post by steveklabnik »

patio11 wrote: post #14
cryptoz wrote: post #2

There's absolutely no description anywhere on those pages about what it is. I happen to know what Diaspora is, but if this link gets passed around outside of this community people will be confused and immediately form a negative opinion of the service. At least put up a "What is Diaspora?" link to their homepage or Wikipedia or something...

people will be confused and immediately form a negative opinion of the service. Trust me, if they understood it was supposed to be the privacy-aware Facebook alternative and started using it, they would have a much more negative impression within, oh, I give it less than 48 hours.

For whoever downvoted Patrick, he's referring to the gaping security holes that are in this release. Nobody should be running publicly accessible seeds yet unless they want their boxen to get pwnt.
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