[com]

"Bad development" sounds like some kind of phrase from a 1950's development model.

"Fundamentals" are things like: there's no identifiable data model, the code is pure spaghetti and structure is a fleeting concept.

From my very quick scan of their code, it's readable, the parts of the data model I looked at are fairly obvious (thanks Rails), dependencies are identified, crypto seems fairly localised. Correction of bugs seems definitely doable. Extra features shouldn't require a total refactoring. Looks good to me for an alpha drop.

Next up: posts criticising the spelling in the comments in the Diaspora code.

[steveklabnik]

Comments on the crypto: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1699782

And I'd say having no authorization in a project that's supposed to be about privacy is missing a fundamental.