The "we'll release this to the public when it's finished" mentality is what's causing this project to fail.
Urbit sounds really cool, but it needs people to actually get used to it, understand it, and then parse it and explain it for us mortals.
Urbit sounds really cool, but it needs people to actually get used to it, understand it, and then parse it and explain it for us mortals.
We're generally quite responsive on the urbit-dev mailing list, and we're making a concerted effort to be more helpful everywhere. Urbit is one of those projects that can't succeed without a community. The pace of github pull requests from outside contributors is increasing, and more and more docs are coming out, both from the core dev team and outside contributors.