Not at all. We got an update, and it was good.
Both comments were jokes @jlpell light hearted but I can see you may not pick up on it, which is fine.
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An element that confirms imminence of test net is that I could create a safe network with nodes compiled from current sn_node repo. It is something that I haven’t been able to do for about 2 months.
I am not talking of localhost mode which was always possible, but a real network with each nodes having a different IP address.
More information about my tests in the dev forum.
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Happy Easter, everyone!
https://twitter.com/CryptoSpaceOff/status/1378625671124111360?s=20
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Thanks for flagging those issues @tfa
I’m sorry I couldn’t get to those earlier. We were working on network features which have shaped up nicely so I finally got around to it, now allowing you to use IPv6 with manual port forwarding and the bug which prevented the running of a network within a LAN is also fixed. We’d like to have all hands on deck when the testnet comes out 
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If a successful testnet is released this week, it may bring a lot of new people and eyes on this forum. I would therefore like to ask everybody here to be on their best behavior. We are all representatives of the Safe Network ideal, and this forum is its main window to the outside world. Let’s make sure we look like the scientific community we are, not a bunch of silly teenagers. Please don’t take this comment as critique or as me trying to act like something I’m not. I think we have done pretty well so far. Let’s keep that up. Cheers!
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Thought the testnet will be released today?
It’s a bank holiday so I doubt it will be, but they were working Friday which also was a bank holiday so could well be! So to summarise maybe!
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Yea skeleton staff today, but we will see. We are more likely to get an internal network up though. Support nightmare with only a few folk in.
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Sounds wise! Get the gremlins out and then let her rip on the public! 
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I think it will be almost impossible to neutrally discuss problems, which Safe Network should help to solve.
Best what can be done is a separation of social and technical problems discussions.
That sounds great! The whole time we are sitting like on tenterhooks.
Really looking forward to this. Hoping testnet gets rid of any doubts 
Even better if it’s an Easter Monday gift
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Please be aware this will not be a stable testnet We still wont have Lazy messaging (Anti Entropy) in all messages here and are at day 1 of testing rewards. We do not expect this testnet is Fleming, it won’t be, but it will be extremely close. The release post will detail this a lot more.
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Do you foresee us been able to keep testnets running and update along the way or is likely we will have some periods of downtime to fix issues?
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We won’t have upgrades till Maxwell. So until then it’s complete down and restart. With the code now so so much simpler I don’t anticipate long periods of downtime. Those days are gone now, thank God. The team now are so much more aligned and in agreement of the simpler, more secure design. That simplicity took a while to get to from cutting out all the wrong thinking code, but we are there now and not only that, with many more features (pretty much all of them).
so possibly if the initial testnet(s) is quite unstable there may be up to a week downtime, but I doubt we will see that. Caveat emptor though for sure. My feeling is we are now there, exactly where we should be and should have been in 2015/6 with the original data chains.
We will document this soon and I believe any Engineer of almost any capability will understand it. No complex maths or weird fancy pants, comp science lingo madness. This is all simple stuff now, really simple, but beautiful when you connect all the parts. It’s something to see for sure. (of course lots of really deep thinking behind it, but simple when you see it)
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Please don’t worry, David. No sane person expects this testnet to be bug free or even stable. That’s why it’s called a testnet.
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“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”. LDV
Sounds like progress to me. Keep up the good work.
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You looking at me, pal?
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Possibly a rather wider role for https://forum.safedev.org/? And this place becomes more social orientated with a sticky saying ask your support questions over in the Dev hub?
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