If we had ditched invites we never would've been able to ship the open network / relay system. As it stands we're on track for open hosting in Q1¹. Same story

If we had ditched invites we never would've been able to ship the open network / relay system. As it stands we're on track for open hosting in Q1¹. Same story with features. We didn't deprioritize the protocol because that's core mission, so we had to put resources there instead of into features. Features will accelerate as core stabilizes. Shipping a novel technology, building a product, and growing a userbase all at once isn't easy. I wouldn't declare us dead unless we've missed the boat so badly with market timing that nobody bothers, but we have good runway and (IMO) a pretty solid community of users. ¹ Probably. Maybe. Pretty sure.