[julianeon]

Thanks for your input. I was looking for a comment from someone who had tried it out and reached a verdict.

To people who disagree and think it’s useful: I’m willing to listen - in fact I came here looking for your comments.

Please post a link to a useful service of app that Urbit provides now, that’s what many of us are waiting to see.

[gonehome]

The main application currently in use is groups which is similar to IRC. There are a few other small applications: chess, canvas - pixel art, pals - friends list, studio - which lets you run a hosted blog to the regular web and send emails when you post something new, but really chat is the main thing in use currently.

With regard to “cult” - every new thing has jargon (tech is particularly bad at it: grep, sed, awk, grok etc etc) - Martian computing comes from an old blog post linked below about the idea that if you started from scratch with a modern understanding of computing what could you build. Basically if you found software from an ancient civilization on mars that still worked - how might it have been designed to guarantee that?

I often see people on HN lament the old web of irc and nerds talking in good faith, about interesting topics, building personal sites, getting to know each other etc. That culture is alive and well on urbit.

[bronzejaguar]

P2P collaborative CMS for blogs that allows publishing from Urbit to the web: https://blog.tirrel.io/blog/this-page-is-hosted-on-urbit