[thinkalone]

Steve, where did you get the $250,000 figure? Their Kickstarter page still shows $200K and change (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/196017994/diaspora-the-p...), and now there are currently three mentions of $250K in the comments here, none of them questioning the $50K raise. Just checking to see if I missed another bit of funding somewhere.

[steveklabnik]

Nope, I just remembered wrong. I'll edit that now, thank you. At least that's not as bad as someone on Reddit who tried to say they raised $4mm...

[thinkalone]

No worries - I would have left a comment on your post, but I didn't have an account to sign in with, and wasn't sure if maybe they had raised an additional $50K outside of Kickstarter.

Just wanted to say good on you for fixing bugs and contributing to Diaspora! Unfortunately I don't even know enough Ruby to understand what I'm looking at, but I'm excited about the project - they've definitely got a good resource in you! Is there any indication that they switched to Ruby during this Summer? I swear it was originally going to be in PHP, but I can't find any mention of that now. Could the oversights in the code be due to this being the first piece of Ruby the team has written?

[steveklabnik]

They won't have me for long; I have my own projects to work on. Hackety Hack is more important to me, by far.

I also vaguely remember that it was supposed to be in PHP as well, and several other people have mentioned that. I can't find a source...

It could be the reason, but things like "make sure if you're trying to delete a photo, it's yours" is something that transcends implementation languages, you know?

[thinkalone]

Maybe they'd even be open to hiring you as a paid consultant, since they are now using Ruby, and seemingly are willing to invest in improving their project.