"Perhaps Even and the Identi.ca core could work on simplicity, stability, and a robust API for both federation and modules/plugins. Anyone interested in building add-ons could do so with their own Laconi.ca instance, and once they're in production there they could be considered on/voted on by the community for addition to Identi.ca.
If only there were a way to have this thread automatically go to the laconica-dev mailing list at http://mail.laconi.ca/mailman/......, we'd be all set... ;-)" - Ken Sheppardson
"I really hope Evan and the other folks working on the Identi.ca/Laconi.ca team (that includes me, I suppose) don't lose sight of the fact that what seems to have gotten Twitter in trouble was deferring scalability until it was too late. Right now the Laconica platform has a traditional MySQL CMS-style architecture: you post a notice, it's added to a table, and every time somone wants to view that message later there's a query against the DB (or a hit against memcache). Twitter has been at this two years, and they still haven't gotten it right. Apparently it's hard. Laconica has been online for about six weeks. If Laconica is going to be a rock solid platform that can become to microblogging what sendmail is to email, apache is to web servers, and MySQL is to RDBMS, IMHO the community really needs to focus on scalability and reliability and not fall into a feature creep trap. Despite it's reliability issues and limited feature set, Twitter works. People use it. Most if not all of the..." - Ken Sheppardson
"It might be interesting to overlay the same users' FriendFeed stats. I'll bet you the total number of actions taken or items posted have remained relatively constant... or at least constant after adjusting for seasonality." - Ken Sheppardson
“I made the jump. Yesterday I unfollowed everyone on Twitter as I either added them here as a friend or an "imaginary friend" connected to their Twitter feed. I'm going to try using FF exclusively as my dashboard, at least until Twitter brings back track/XMPP.”
The problem now is everything showing up on FF is a Twitter post. Page after page of out of context @replies, specifically. How in the world do you use this thing? (i.e. FF) - Ken Sheppardson
Alright, well... that experiment was a failure. Twitter posts without comments/likes that are grouped by user rather that ordered by time just completely gum up the works on FF. YMMV, of course. Hiding all twitter items that don't include comments, dropping any friends that only post on Twitter, and re-following over there. Going to keep these as two distinct services for now. - Ken Sheppardson