The part about it being built for the GoogAppEngine sort of puts me off. I imagine you'd have to rewrite quite a few parts of it to be able to use it on Amazon Cloud Services, for example.
I thought Amazon's hosting concept was based on virtual machines whereas App Engine is a bit more restricted in the sense that it allows only certain system ops/call and provides with special persistency support via BigTable for certain programming languages/runtimes/environments. One could assume that going from a more restricted environment to a generalized VM env would allow easier ports that than vice versa.
Basically I get the idea that current Jaiku will be maintained as is but to enjoy the new version, you hav to install it yourself on App Engine. This points to the fact that Google isn't willing to provide the resources needed for ironing out the bugs of the alpha or beta release. This is a a de facto life imprisonment of the Jaiku community as somebody would hav to take over the project/site and to plan the migration. It is very hard to take this over unless you are very sure of your concept.
Not at all unexpected really, but still very sad. :( Guess identi.ca will become my most used microblogging platform now. I hope our little community can somehow manage to stay together, so many great people on Jaiku.
trying to decide, probably wait till the morning and see. @zenith if identi.ca can get a mobile site sorted and threaded replies it would make a perfect alternative. Saying that, anyone could create their own jaiku now anyway.
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This is confusing...Jaiku will continue to use the same codebase, without changing it at all?
10 months, 2 weeks ago by edythemighty
What?!? I have more questions now than I had before reading this!
10 months, 2 weeks ago by angelmartinez
The part about it being built for the GoogAppEngine sort of puts me off. I imagine you'd have to rewrite quite a few parts of it to be able to use it on Amazon Cloud Services, for example.
10 months, 2 weeks ago by edythemighty
As much as I'd prefer otherwise, I think we all have to regard Jaiku as dead in the water.
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10 months, 2 weeks ago by malach
So, if I understood correctly, jaiku.com and its services will remain as is until... forever.
10 months, 2 weeks ago by sachaqs
I thought Amazon's hosting concept was based on virtual machines whereas App Engine is a bit more restricted in the sense that it allows only certain system ops/call and provides with special persistency support via BigTable for certain programming languages/runtimes/environments. One could assume that going from a more restricted environment to a generalized VM env would allow easier ports that than vice versa.
10 months, 2 weeks ago by jkniiv
Basically I get the idea that current Jaiku will be maintained as is but to enjoy the new version, you hav to install it yourself on App Engine. This points to the fact that Google isn't willing to provide the resources needed for ironing out the bugs of the alpha or beta release. This is a a de facto life imprisonment of the Jaiku community as somebody would hav to take over the project/site and to plan the migration. It is very hard to take this over unless you are very sure of your concept.
10 months, 2 weeks ago by jkniiv
On the plus side, having support for the open standards of microblogging is good
10 months, 2 weeks ago by edythemighty
can someone summarise this up, jaiku is becomin open source and google is leaving it for others to develop similar platforms from the code?
10 months, 2 weeks ago by adonisdemon
seems so
10 months, 2 weeks ago by atmasphere
Not at all unexpected really, but still very sad. :( Guess identi.ca will become my most used microblogging platform now. I hope our little community can somehow manage to stay together, so many great people on Jaiku.
10 months, 2 weeks ago by zenith
trying to decide, probably wait till the morning and see. @zenith if identi.ca can get a mobile site sorted and threaded replies it would make a perfect alternative. Saying that, anyone could create their own jaiku now anyway.
10 months, 2 weeks ago by adonisdemon
Maybe somebody amongst us would be kind and clever enough to get a server running with the jaiku code. That would be great. :)
In the end I'll likely be wherever the people are. Would be nice if that wasn't twitter though. ;)
10 months, 2 weeks ago by zenith