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One thing that always bugged me about the criticism of the Diaspora release was that people criticize it like it is production software when they clearly stated
by mrchess 15y ago
One thing that always bugged me about the criticism of the Diaspora release was that people criticize it like it is production software when they clearly stated it was a "pre-alpha developer preview". Who cares if they didn't have security checks? They could have been just waiting till later to add them all in.
I know when I build I like getting the scaffold/mvp up as quickly as possible ignoring security because hey, this thing isn't out in the wild, and do my due diligence on security after I am happy with the prototype.
- HeyLaughingBoy 15y agoI think of this as similar to error handling/reporting. If you don't build in a mechanism from the beginning, it's going to be so much more difficult to do it later.
- michaelfairley 15y agoIt was getting deployed as a production service in many places, so it was effectively "out in the wild". Labeling something a "pre-alpha developer preview" does not remove the responsibility of protecting users' data.