Thursday, January 26th, 2012, 12:10 am
Join Diaspora… But Maybe Not Just Yet
Filed under: Up and down all day long
EVERAL months ago I joined Diaspora and enjoyed the good uptime of the service. The community was thriving, everyone was friendly, and the site reacted to input as one would expect. But then, just like Identi.ca, the site began having performance and uptime issues. At one point the site was down for a week. People soon lost those withdrawal symptoms and perhaps just moved on; some returned only to see sporadic operation of the site, which fairly enough is still in alpha (the software it runs is). But the bottom line is, in the early days people reviewed the site harshly for technical shortcomings. Now it’s just the really terrible uptime and low reliability. Unless this gets fixed the site is likely to lose its most ardent supporters and participants.
When Diaspora becomes “stable” it may all be resolved, but by that point, how many people will be on the JoinDiaspora pod?
