I just tried installing it on Debian. I couldn't figure out how it works within 10 seconds, and it made my CPU spike all the time that it was installed, so I just removed it. So, maybe it has usability problems. Its vital signs aren't great either. It seems to be the work of a single person, Christian Grothoff, although that person is still active handling bugs in Mantis.

Lots of svn commits, and I'm still cloning them into hg to get a sense for how development is progressing. There are 39k commits total. Takes a long time to grab them from svn. From an actual svn checkout without converting, I can see that there are many commits, several per day, but there hasn't been a release in two years. Maybe they need help with a release manager?

My overall feeling is that this is a very good idea that just needs better packaging.

its like hurd I'm guessing, nearly no one using it, so no reason to stop experimenting and having fun

They recently got taken under the wing of Inria and have several people working on it full time.

GNUnet is pretty alive and has even a port that runs in the browser: https://github.com/amatus/gnunet-web (it actually works)

https://gnunet.io/ looks down from here, maybe due to the HN traffic.

I can't get it to work so it must not work. That's Mythbuster logic there.

I read it more as "I can't get it to work so it's not worth my time." Which seems reasonable in this case.

I made thousand other projects work successfully for me. Sometimes one should stop hitting their head against the wall!