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Re:Code for open-source Facebook riddled with landmines by steveklabnik on Thursday September 16, 2010 @09:41PM (#1699729)
In theory, this is great, but it's really hard to do actual work while wading through 6 separate reports of "It says the db can't connect to this host and port, what do? Derp!" The mailing list is even worse.

It's really hard to separate real, actual issues from a few hundred people who don't know how to run a ruby-based website.

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Re:Code for open-source Facebook riddled with landmines by Grantmd on Thursday September 16, 2010 @10:32PM (#1699863)
Even the people that seem to know enough to help fix bugs are stuck arguing about whitespace and license choice. That's a waste of time both for them and the diaspora time when there are clearly bigger issues to solve.
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Re:Code for open-source Facebook riddled with landmines by thinkalone on Thursday September 16, 2010 @09:53PM (#1699761)
> a few hundred people who don't know how to run a ruby-based website.

Point them towards Hackety Hack :)

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Re:Code for open-source Facebook riddled with landmines by steveklabnik on Thursday September 16, 2010 @09:59PM (#1699778)
I should. :) That's what I should be doing rather than worrying about Diaspora, anyway...
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