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I haven't looked at the code, so I can't say this is the case, but... There's some stuff that good/experienced developers do upfront naturally. There are some

by latch 16y ago

I haven't looked at the code, so I can't say this is the case, but... There's some stuff that good/experienced developers do upfront naturally. There are some security, design and performance things that are clearly a case of bad development versus "this is an early release". Fundamentals.

com 16y ago
"Bad development" sounds like some kind of phrase from a 1950's development model. "Fundamentals" are things like: there's no identifiable data model, the code is pure spaghetti and structure is a fleeting concept. From my very quick scan of their code, it's readable, the parts of the data model I looked at are fairly obvious (thanks Rails), dependencies are identified, crypto seems fairly localised. Correction of bugs seems definitely doable. Extra features shouldn't require a total refactoring. Looks good to me for an alpha drop. Next up: posts criticising the spelling in the comments in the Diaspora code.
- steveklabnik 16y ago
  Comments on the crypto: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1699782 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1699782 And I'd say having no authorization in a project that's supposed to be about privacy is missing a fundamental.