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There's a lot of negativity and "I told you so" snickering floating around Diaspora on Hacker News.

I'm putting it down to envy: these guys have shipped some pre-alpha code that's interesting to a large number of people.

Excellent marketing in the open source community for developer eyeballs, perhaps not so good in terms of end-user experiences, but that's not the point at this stage, numbers will be low and the perceptions of the dumb early-adopters (of pre-alpha distributed social networking code, ffs) shouldn't leak too badly into the mainstream.

However, people are now eating the dogfood, and I expect to see fairly rapid improvements in the code: not unexpected for an alpha drop in my experience.

To the people who are moaning, would you like others to see your alpha code and laugh bitterly about you being a young (or old for that matter) upstart?