article is premature, in terms of where the project is at. Even for Linux it looks like it takes a bit of work to get it working -- I think they're in a pretty early, "proof of concept" kind of stage. Very exciting, but a lot of people seem to be frustrated by having no easy way to try it out. It appears to me that because it's leveraging highly cross-platform technologies like bitcoin, there's great potential for it to be available on lots of platforms..but that's out in the future. Pete On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Charles N. Wyble <charles(a)thefnf.org>wrote;wrote:

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/13/2014 05:00 PM, Pete Forsyth wrote: The Twister website says that's the codebase is in alpha, for all that implies. It's even in red text: "Warning! "This is alpha software! In other words: this software is probably difficult to compile, it is not feature-complete, it can be unstable, and it may crash causing data loss. You have been warned." - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3BD8 FF2B 807B 17C1 WWW: https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ "The truth, as always, will be far stranger." --Arthur C. Clarke

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/14/2014 12:15 PM, Mitar wrote: On the one hand, you seem to be correct. On the other hand, the Twister codebase is very young and could probably use a few more developers working on it. The code reads like a first cut to me, a "Gee, I wonder if I can do this?" sort of thing. The traffic patterns for Twister have yet to be characterized. It is possible that the message exchange and DHT update traffic might crush the inter-node links. Time will tell. We have a solution which works pretty well for us, if the list is interested. Nor am I. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3BD8 FF2B 807B 17C1 WWW: https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ "The truth, as always, will be far stranger." --Arthur C. Clarke

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/14/2014 12:24 PM, Mitar wrote: The solution we went with is called Groundstation (https://github.com/richo/groundstation). It is a distributed Twitter work-alike that uses Git for its back-end and a lightweight gossip protocol to synchronize other instances on the network. It presents a regular HTTP front end (which is easily proxyable through Apache to add SSL/TLS for data-in-motion protection) and does not require that users create accounts to use it. Communication channels are set up on the server side, and users can interact with (read, post, comment) with them from the client side. The gossip protocol Groundstation uses is extremely efficient; we discovered by accident that we were synching Byzantium nodes via packet radio on the 2m band and didn't even realize it. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3BD8 FF2B 807B 17C1 WWW: https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ "What if it WAS the chicken??" --The Prime Minister, _Mirrormask_