Scuttlebutt – A decentralised secure gossip platform

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Discussion earlier this year:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14050049

I find myself not enjoying the video introduction, I like the technical details on a technically orientated page. I'm not a simple user, I don't need a "love story", I like the nitty gritty details.

Regardless, very cool to see something new in the space. Going to schedule some time to play with it.

Yeah, the love story was deliberately aimed at non-technical users, trying to emphasise the culture rather than the tech.

http://www.scuttlebot.io/more/protocols/secure-scuttlebutt.h... has a little bit of more-technical stuff about how it works, but it's not comprehensive. Technical docs are an ongoing task.

Yeah, sure it makes sense for those users. But you've put it on a site that contains mostly technical information. This isn't facebook.com. You've put a user-centered video on an engineer-centered site.

I can't look at it without installing it, and I'm certainly not going to take eleven-and-some minutes of my life to watch a love story. I want to see what people are actually using it for, and what the tone of their conversations is, and I can't do that without installing it, which I won't.

The nice thing about a browser-based tool for social interaction is that I can go look at it and see if I want it without installing more software I don't want. If your video is going to ease me around that, it's going to have to be short and packed with real-life information, not imaginary stories.

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