I have really bit my tongue since the beginning of diaspora - I think really they are simply victims of their own success. If they had a normal amount of public

I have really bit my tongue since the beginning of diaspora - I think really they are simply victims of their own success. If they had a normal amount of publicity, or if they had gotten the 10 they asked for instead of 200 I think they'd be much better off. Much hungrier, scrappier. Less expectations to live up to. Way less people looking over their shoulder as they learn to code and manage a project. It's got to be a bitch to learn to dance on live TV as well. I am not saying they are doing a bad job. Just that it's a very hard job to do. Most rock stars of today that built the next big thing had the luxury of not having to show anyone the code. And I'd say 90% of the time, that code is fucked, at least in parts. That's pretty recoverable - your product isn't the code it's the service or executable. Many opensource projects are similar - they can be hacky at first because no one even knows they exist - as they get traction they can fix things as they become issues. But now with the whole internet breathing down their necks, celebrity status and a bunch of money burning a hole in their pockets they have no such luxuries at all. I am inclined to agree though that they should really consider closing back up and rebooting both the design philosophy and the code base after folding a few key contributors into the core team. Not that I'm right or that I know what I'm talking about, but just my opinion.