Hey people, what’s up? The quiet has passed and the storm has reached us. After at least two weeks of hard work by the core team, yesterday saw the release of what must be my favourite Diaspora update so far: intelligent post page templates. I’ve never denied that a picture says more than a 9000 [...]
If you’re a regular user of Diaspora, and you really enjoy the experience of using it, perhaps at some point you’ve wondered about doing something more with the software. Maybe you have some really awesome idea that you’d like to see get done, or maybe you want to write a cool module or take a [...]
People have been asking for this feature for months now and finally, thanks to Oliver, there is an interesting workaround that seems to be doing the job quite well. To quote the developer, “I hacked together a Perl script that aggregates RSS/atom feeds and posts them to a Diaspora account. This way, you can now [...]
Today I’m presenting you with an article about a massive flaw in the world of online social networking. I have to warn you beforehand that there is no perfect solution to the problem I am about to describe since it’s mostly a psychological problem. On the upside, I will suggest some patches that can reduce [...]
Dear visitor, As you may know Diasporial had a little hiccup about two months ago, resulting in an unfortunate loss of data. Though lots of the old content could be retrieved, one or two articles may have been lost. We also weren’t able to save the user base. This bugged me a lot because I [...]
Diaspora has grown very fast over the past few months, bringing awesome new people from all around the world together in a privacy and freedom respecting way. Now, with the latest performance updates, Diaspora is preparing to grow further, allowing even more cool people to join the awesomest social network in the world. Only one thing [...]
A lot of you may have logged in on your pod a few days ago to notice that something is just kind of different about the site. The words “Alpha” have been removed from the title, the gradients are a little different, and some features are just straight-up missing. “What gives?” you ask, and that’s [...]