Re:Urbit
by cryptozeus on Sunday December 01, 2019 @01:22PM
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Instead of us doing the work of going through Wikipedia links and your docs, you can explain this by one simple diagram or video. Unless your goal is to be mysterious, I cannot understand how can a company go through all this trouble of creating something, building a website and can’t get the message across even to the HN community.
Re:Urbit
by matildepark on Sunday December 01, 2019 @09:51PM
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I agree. I think this feedback is super valuable.
The problem, I think, is that there's a lot of inference gaps to clear in terms of how people understand computers and how they understand the internet that we simply dispose of. A lot of the project is an attempt to re-architect the entire stack to resist the flaws of the modern internet — everything we take for granted as 'the way it is,' from the annoyances all the way to the downright evil.
High level, start with the Wikipedia entry. [1] Then peek through some higher-level, overview docs. [2]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbit
[2] https://urbit.org/docs/tutorials/arvo/