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Well this is a very simple system and could for instance be reimplemented in Ruby On Rails in ... a few days?

• muratsu 4y ago
  I'm sure it's not the most sophisticated software, but the repo has 3,736 commits over several years. I would imagine it would take them more than a few days :)
• endigma 4y ago
  We do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they would be easy.
• robinhood 4y ago
  Founder of Monica and Chandler here. It's so easy that the rewrite (aka Chandler) has taken Alexis and me 11 months so far, as a side project, and working most nights and weekends (check the number of commits). I know that Monica appears to be easy, and Chandler also, but it's not easy. Making a clone for yourself is easier, although not that easy if you want to replicate all the features. Making a clone for an entire community, which hosts Monica in tens of different configurations, means having a robust CI, a pipeline to package and deploy Docker images, a solid API, and so on and so on. I thought building a project like Monica was easy at first, but 6 years in, I can confidently say: it's really not.
  • RajT88 4y ago
    I would be a wealthy man indeed if I had a dollar for every time some software engineer espoused, "This is crap! I could build a better one myself!". If you took away a dollar for every software engineer who I heard say that, and actually followed through, I'd still be a rich man.
  • DenisM 4y ago
    Is there a feature allowing to see at a glance all my contacts (group by category) and if they are getting stale? Didn’t see it at a glance.