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Re:Urbit in 2017 by flukus on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @07:31PM (#13594483)
Email, document sharing, custom web apps, etc, does urbit do this?
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Re:Urbit in 2017 by KeatonDunsford on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @07:34PM (#13594496)
Not well, yet. But that's the plan. All in the blog post.
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Re:Urbit in 2017 by flukus on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @07:38PM (#13594531)
> All in the blog post.

Email and file sharing aren't mentioned. What can it do now?

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Re:Urbit in 2017 by ThrowAway123543 on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @09:08PM (#13595077)
It has a webserver and networking and it can access the filesystem and it can send messages to other users securely. There's also an ntalk kind of app and a simple threaded discussion things but they're more like demo apps than things you'd use intrinsically.

I think it's fair to say the only reason to run this is to develop for it right now, it's not something end users have a use for.

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