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AntoniusSep 17th 2010 8:57AM
For the record (because there's bound to be knee-jerk reactions), they do state very clearly on their site that this is not secure yet and filled with bugs so lets not jump on any bandwagons yet guys.
clonedSep 17th 2010 9:30AM
Right, but it won't stop bloggers from trolling. Someones going to look at the title of this article and write off the group as a failure. Just as the first poster did in the comments.
MyriaSep 17th 2010 10:30AM
There's a difference between bugs that can and will be dealt with in time, and fundamental design flaws that can't really be fixed without going back and starting again.
If the issues here are of the latter variety -- and there are more than a few respected professionals that feel they may be -- this isn't just a matter of a bunch of to-be-expected pre-alpha (why in god's name release a pre-alpha anyway?) bugs, but instead problems that are far more fundamental and not easily, if at all, fixed.
vicagredaSep 17th 2010 10:36AM
Why not wait to release until some of the most egregious security flaws were fixed? Why not provide a more open license? Why not do a smaller invite-only pre-release to suss out fundamental flaws?
I wouldn't call it trolling when we're trying to point out critical mistakes that could sink the entire project. I don't think anyone here has an agenda to see Diaspora fail -- we're simply trying to analyze the situation and point out real issues.
Instead we could just sleep in and hope it all works out somehow, right?
AntoniusSep 17th 2010 11:44AM
Good points from both Victor and Myria. Some of those holes do need to be fixed ASAP, but every site like this has a lot of bugs at first, even when they first open publicly. Don't forget this is still at the point where you have to compile the source yourself. At this point it's probably best to just take a wait and see approach. In the end, this may be too little too late since Facebook has fixed the majority of issues that caused these people to make Diaspora.