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Scuttlebutt – A decentralised secure gossip platform
- Operyl 9y agoI find myself not enjoying the video introduction, I like the technical details on a technically orientated page. I'm not a simple user, I don't need a "love story", I like the nitty gritty details. Regardless, very cool to see something new in the space. Going to schedule some time to play with it.
- gregknicholson 9y agoYeah, the love story was deliberately aimed at non-technical users, trying to emphasise the culture rather than the tech. http://www.scuttlebot.io/more/protocols/secure-scuttlebutt.html http://www.scuttlebot.io/more/protocols/secure-scuttlebutt.h... has a little bit of more-technical stuff about how it works, but it's not comprehensive. Technical docs are an ongoing task.
- Operyl 9y agoYeah, sure it makes sense for those users. But you've put it on a site that contains mostly technical information. This isn't facebook.com. You've put a user-centered video on an engineer-centered site.
- zrail 9y agoDiscussion earlier this year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14050049 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14050049
- JasonFruit 9y agoI can't look at it without installing it, and I'm certainly not going to take eleven-and-some minutes of my life to watch a love story. I want to see what people are actually using it for, and what the tone of their conversations is, and I can't do that without installing it, which I won't. The nice thing about a browser-based tool for social interaction is that I can go look at it and see if I want it without installing more software I don't want. If your video is going to ease me around that, it's going to have to be short and packed with real-life information, not imaginary stories.