[pkulak]

First people bitch and whine because they are working "in secret" and not releasing code. Then they release and everyone freaks out because it's not finished. I guess the only way everyone would be happy would be if they released a completed project after a week.

[jordanmessina]

Where in this article does the author complain about it not being finished? It's the fact that the Diaspora team is not doing things right. No one cares that this project isn't finished they care about how much it sucks because their whole reason for starting the project was privacy and they don't even come out of the gates with a secure system for people to implement/build upon...

[pkulak]

The author of the article didn't, but no one is going to argue both points, since they are contradictory. This author is angry that the code isn't finished. Many other people were angry that it wasn't released. I'm just saying, there's no way for these guys to please everyone, which is to be expected.

[steveklabnik]

I'm not angry the code isn't finished. I'm concerned that people don't understand what they're getting into; yes, they mentioned that it's an alpha release, but nobody is paying attention to them.

And I'm also concerned that if they'd consider releasing something so broken that it won't be taken care of in the future.