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Radicle Architecture

by jkarni on 3/28/19, 12:34 PM with 18 comments

• by Confusion on 3/31/19, 12:46 PM

  When would I want to use this? What problem that people currently have does this solve? The website tells me what Radicle is and what you can do with it, but as far as I can tell it doesn’t explain why/when I would want to do that.

• by jimmoores on 3/31/19, 12:58 PM

  When a blog about a collaboration tool devolves into a formal state machine definition and blocks of lisp syntax, I have my doubts about the project's ability to communicate with potential users.

• by cseelus on 3/31/19, 1:04 PM

  Following the introduction tutorial, in which you add to the Radicle Garden[2] (which is a nice idea btw.), I get a 'The machine owner appears to be offline' when I try to propose my changes.

  I think the very idea of Radicle is nice, but having a rock solid VCS is crucial to a developers workflow, so they really need to iron things like that out.

  1) http://www.radicle.xyz/docs/index.html#installation-setup

  2) http://www.radicle.xyz/garden/index.html

• by 616c on 3/31/19, 4:23 PM

  How does this compare to scuttlebutt and ssb-git? I know IPFS and ssb are different but conceptually in how data is segmented and distributed?

• by rmorey on 3/31/19, 5:11 PM

  Love the style on this website, in particular the use of Vulf Mono!

• by gbrown_ on 3/31/19, 11:57 AM

  Is it just me or does this blog not have links for each entry? There seem to be two entries at present but no way to link directly to either of them?

• by mieses on 3/31/19, 6:22 AM

  Does it have a viniculum?