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I was about to impulsively donate when I first saw the Kickstarter page but decided to watch the video to get more info. Watching these guys talk made me realiz
by wickedchicken 15y ago
I was about to impulsively donate when I first saw the Kickstarter page but decided to watch the video to get more info. Watching these guys talk made me realize they had no idea what they were doing (the thought in my mind was "have they ever coded anything?"). Diaspora: shitty engineering with great web design (not unlike most social startups today). Luckily this leaves the playing field open for people who actually know their shit.
- derefr 15y agoI don't understand why the Diaspora folks decided to do their own engineering in the first place. Why not just use the money to fund development on Appleseed/OneSocialWeb, then box up the result (with support et al.) under the brand "Diaspora"? In est, do what Apple did with Mach/BSD, and later did again with Webkit/KHTML.
- wickedchicken 15y agoI think it's clear that they didn't really know what they were getting into. Much like GNU freebeards designing a core system and "throwing on a GUI" ends with a terrible mess, a bunch of UI guys inexperienced in systems software yields a beautiful failure. Think of that 'programmer hierarchy' poster: "Ruby programmers consider themselves superior to everybody but are not aware of the existence of non-web languages." You need to have different backgrounds or really deep experience to come out with something great.