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by thinkalone 5757 days ago
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?
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steveklabnik 5757 days ago
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?

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thinkalone 5757 days ago
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.
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