I’m just patiently waiting to see the low level connections and routing to take shape and be optimized. And they are being so that’s always exciting to hear!
The fact that low bandwith connections will only handle smaller messages and that chunks can be broken down and send to the next hop while still receiving the other part(s) of chunk from previous hop, I think is very cool progress.
Once it’s done and I feel it’s being done at a fever pitch, then all the sweet features will start to be in rfc’s and roll out. Of course I’m sure getting farming algorithms right etc will take a few tests but that’s fun to watch and also be a part of time to time as well. Keep up the good work!
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According to some members on this forum the whole project is a failure because we’re not all billionaires yet.
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I don’t believe that, since there are no flawless computer systems. Look at Microsoft: they have been very successful at putting out crap that inexplicably crashes or goes slow and they improve on it with each iteration (rinse and repeat for forty years, become absurdly rich) in effect they make you pay to be their beta testers. I see no reason why a buggy SAFEnet could not be put out that does kinda work. For example: maybe it maxes out the CPU with only a few vaults, so then the devs consider ways of making it more efficient such as making the messaging async. That is how the consumer software industry actually works.
Autonomous networks change this though. It needs to stabilise and be efficient. Then maintain data over full outage and then be able to upgrade. Then it can iterate wildly in the consumer space. Parts 1 & 2 happening now, part 3 next.
If it were a web server, operating system or word processor then yes very early release works. Integrated knowledge that forms a fully decentralised “brain” needs a higher level of minimum viability really. Otherwise you drop data continually (as many such project do, granted).
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But the reason why microsoft cannot put out a flawless OS is because that is not their goal. They were/are busy with useless backwards compatibility, and more recently integrating spyware features gradually into their OS. If they were iterating towards a perfect OS they would’ve been done a decade or so ago. But then they would also go out of business. Maidsafe is/will be built with monetization in mind for the network. Kind of like Dash incentivizes their dev team. I just wish it could go faster because there are a lot of us with projects in mind that hinge on Maidsafe. I’ve got some ideas that maidsafe would be perfect for. But, patience is key. Woosaw.
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