I agree with everything you’ve just said… How does that apply to me pointing my browser to http://projectdecorum.safenet/ and knowing its safe? If its @Seneca files, he can change whatever he wants correct? Am I missing something?
I know this is only PoC, but the premise of how the app works currently is my issue. How do we make that happen in the browser situation?
If you get it from a website or SAFE-site then you are getting the version from that site. It can be new.
When the system is live you would get the datamap for the APP and store it in your account area. I expect that there will be a “file-explorer” that will show you these things in teh live SAFE network. (Just one of the standard apps that will be there)
So then you can run the version you got the datamap for rather than getting the datamap from teh website/SAFE-site each time.
So basically the :
part is what will actually be happening once things get rolling?
I would expect so. The datamap is the equivalent of downloading the program on your disk.
So for an Application that is large, say 1 GB, you would not download the 1GB application binary to your disk. But you would copy the datamap for the file to your SAFE storage area.
Then you would have a icon/link/whatever, maybe like your phone an icon and when you click it to run your APP, the icon is pointing to your copy of the datamap which means you are always running the same version of the APP each time. Until you change your icon to point to a new datamap.
Okay I’ve updated the launcher and the demo app. Everying is approved and I still can’t submit replies or new topics to the decorum forum. Submit buttons don’t seem to be functioning.
There’s a bug that occurs for some identities that prevents them from posting anything, it is because of an invalid string character in the generated private key of that identity (this is why some identitities have them and others don’t, and I plus my 4 testers didn’t find the bug). I’ll try to fix it soon. In the meantime you could try getting a different ID if you can’t wait to try it out.
Could it be the " character? I know that that has caused issues in the past with passphrases on other coin wallets. May also apply here?
Possibly! It doesn’t matter much which one exactly though, I should just encode it differently.
for some reason the live PoC doesn’t work for me:
If I click some link I get this or a blank page open up:
and the app keeps asking for permissions even though I grant it
Are you sure you have the latest Launcher version?
It’s: Release SAFE Launcher · maidsafe-archive/safe_launcher · GitHub
Link taken from : Dev Update & 2nd Test Network Release :safe: 8th March 2016
If there’s a newer version, I appreciate letting me know 
latest version ^^ 0.4.1
I notice that as a result of my attempts at posting messages to the Decorum POC I now have a proliferation of “services” visible in the MaidSafe Demo App. They either start with “http://publickey.” prepended to one of my domains, or “http://decorum.” followed by a 128-character alphanumeric string and finishing with “.safenet”
What is all that?
And also, how can I delete entries from “services”?
[EDIT] The point is, it is improper in a technical sense for a mere forum to make all kinds of weird changes to a user’s network profile.
I understand that both network and Decorum are experimental at this point. But in the public release stage, apps, forums or whatever must be partitioned off from making what appear to be unauthorized changes to a user’s “services.”
It’s because of this:
The SAFE Network currently lacks a proper API for dynamic data. As a
temporary workaround, the Proof of Concept makes unintended use of the
SAFE Network DNS system. This means that a new public ID is registered
for your account for every new post you make.
I was trying to log into this forum 2 days ago and kept getting “bad gateway” error.
However, I logged into Project Decorum’s proof of concept website and made some comments and edits. Owning your own data completely unhindered is truly liberating!
Hopefully, Decorum will provide an easy way to customize my experience, where I don’t want to see everything from everyone.
Most people don’t have a lot of time to view everything and prefer to scan “highlights” to determine if more attention is needed.
Yep, latest versions should be pinned and displayed proudly at the top of the forum in some form or another… why should any new user need to use search to find the test network?
100% agree with you on this one. For newcomers it’s a burden to find the links. even for regular forum users what I am talking here.
@Ross is it possible to have a global pinned post with relevant information on how to download the latest installers, setup the apps etc?
Will it be possible in the Decorum protocol and/or decorum forum, to use an option that allows to display topics / posts without any endorsement based sorting ? An option to disable completely web of trust / Clikes influence, so you can see the raw things.
I find it very useful to display forums with only a chronological sorting, for instance.
I tend to think “likes” based sorting tends to lower the overal quality of results in a very general manner. It raises popular content, and unfortunately often this is a the expense of the level of discussion and langage.
We have a saying here, once translated in english, that could be :" It is not because they are numerous that they are right"
Yes, that’ll be possible.
keeps on asking me for “allow access to safe drive” every link i click on the POC