IOTA

[farl4web]

I hope you realize that more than half of these "derailing" and "drama" comments wouldn't exist if you would just be a little nicer to the community.  90% of the posts I see you make are you yelling at somebody.  It's frustrating.

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I agree with you.

[hoertest]

Hi here is my two cents nobody asked for  ,

I'm one of those people that bought this software with the mere interest to possess them early and by so cheap. will i just sell em for profit to a iot startup? will i find partners and work out a project myself? i don't know at this point. But i was shure it would be a smart move to get me a part of the network now rather than later. And i bought after the ICO here in Speculation thread.
So right now i'm just a speculator and i'm ok with the fact that by so have no say in anything you guys do or how fast.
Now i'm no developer myself, just an enthusiast, thats why i'm also pretty shure i can't help in your testing process, and I'm hesitant out of fear of doing mistakes that would result in me losing iotas or also actually slowing down testing by needing to much help.

i would just ask you iotatoken for one thing. or give you a tip. often we get pissed of by one person and than let our frustration of at another person that didn't even cause our anger but just was asking a similar question or we just assumed it came from a similar spirit like the person that was really annoying us when it actually wasn't. if that makes sense   , I think your at this point a bit

Also i have a question about the testing. i guess the testcrowd won't increase tenfold over night. so assuming testing goes on at current speed with current manpower, when is the goal of 1 mil transactions (correct me if i got that wrong) expected to be reached? And if you are personally also not happy with that estimate what measures can we " the community" (hate that word in this context) take to bring more competent testers to the table.

I think constantly claiming "its up to you guys , Investors fuck off" won't do the trick, i'm exaggerating a bit  , hope you get what i'm saying, i think its not clear to alot of people right now how many people would have to test how extensively for how long to reach our goal in what time. If there was some clarity about this we could start finding solutions easier and the bickering would stop or decrease at least.

much respect

hoertest

[LemonAndFriesOne]

I don't feel like reading all the other pages full of nonsense, can anyone do a short summary of IOTA's status?

[ImI]

I don't feel like reading all the other pages full of nonsense, can anyone do a short summary of IOTA's status?

testing went fine so far with 0.93 and now everyone is waiting for 0.94

in terms of GUI not much news, so far we are using the minimal GUI from cfb

[Azeh]

I don't feel like reading all the other pages full of nonsense, can anyone do a short summary of IOTA's status?

testing went fine so far with 0.93 and now everyone is waiting for 0.94

in terms of GUI not much news, so far we are using the minimal GUI from cfb

What is the state of the GUI?  Has it been scrapped? 

To be fair to a lot of people in the community are not technically inclined enough to feel confident testing.  My understanding was while the GUI was not promised at the beginning it was asked for by the community with the purpose to help the less technically inclined participate in testing. 

[iotatoken]

Just to address this for the infinith time:

As the leader of the project I accept wholeheartedly that any frustration will be directed at me, that is inevitable and fair. If the criticism is based on reality or the questions are legit, I will answer respectfully. However, when you are seeing me tell someone to 'fuck off' or 'shut up' it is unequivocally due to that person either being a confirmed troll, a speculator concerned about speculator issues, or someone who is asking the same question for the 10th time that has been responded to him. I will never change when it comes to being brutally honest, it's just who I am and will always be. I never run into drama with legit honest people, or in business negotiations or in assisting someone who just genuinely don't know what to do, but I don't care about dishonest people. When someone claims that we are blackmailing (yes they used this exact word) when we tell them that they should test the software they bought to help push launch faster instead of complaining about something they can actively do something about, I will obviously tell them to stop wasting my time. But even in those instances I take the time to write a relatively long post explaining everything, which I have done at least 10 times.

GUI

I presume everyone knows the basic story of GUI by now, we hired 3 professionals with incredible portfolios; 1 disappeared before we even got to working, 1 team (creativedash) lost their developer in the middle of the job, then refused to honor the full agreement and acted the most unprofessional I have ever seen, 1 dev who had worked for several major companies like Motorola, Four Seasons hotels etc. literally had am mental breakdown and threatened us with all sorts of insane shit if we didn't just let him take the money "because my life is hard" after lying chronically for weeks about working, when in reality he wasn't. I had to threaten him with legal action to get him to refund the money. Then we started using Wesley, our previous collaborator from Nxt, what we did not know was that due to personal issues in his life, he was way, way slower than we had ever anticipated and he went weeks above his own estimate. BUT it's still being worked on and will be done at 0.9.4 launch. By now we also got iOS and Android client due to our great community member Adrian. So re: GUI, no problems


New website

We have hired a really great team (finally a reliable one) that is making a brand new website for us which will visually show the IOTA ecosystem in the Internet-of-Things and give a "woah" factor for everyone new to the project. It will be launched right before launch of IOTA.


State of IOTA

IOTA development is going swimmingly, we had to do a fuckton of analysis which required a lot of computational power. The community came together and lent their idle cores (this is actually what IOTA was made for, distributed shared computing, so poetically beautiful) and we used AWS for the rest. This process is soon done, and once it is 0.9.4 will be done.
Also please do not forget that IOTA has been in testing and optimization since January, what we have now is several fold better than what we had in January, there has been no break in progress whatsoever. Not only that, but we also have another great community member - Tomer Krisi - who is developing the C# client so that we'll have both Java and C# around launch. Next up is C and Rust.

[msin]

Thanks for the update, please let us know when testing commences.

[yassin54]

Good Updated for everybody!! 
Thanks for your hard work my friend!! 

[marcus1986]

Thank you for the update!

[Videodrome]

Just to address this for the infinith time:

As the leader of the project I accept wholeheartedly that any frustration will be directed at me, that is inevitable and fair. If the criticism is based on reality or the questions are legit, I will answer respectfully. However, when you are seeing me tell someone to 'fuck off' or 'shut up' it is unequivocally due to that person either being a confirmed troll, a speculator concerned about speculator issues, or someone who is asking the same question for the 10th time that has been responded to him. I will never change when it comes to being brutally honest, it's just who I am and will always be. I never run into drama with legit honest people, or in business negotiations or in assisting someone who just genuinely don't know what to do, but I don't care about dishonest people. When someone claims that we are blackmailing (yes they used this exact word) when we tell them that they should test the software they bought to help push launch faster instead of complaining about something they can actively do something about, I will obviously tell them to stop wasting my time. But even in those instances I take the time to write a relatively long post explaining everything, which I have done at least 10 times.

GUI

I presume everyone knows the basic story of GUI by now, we hired 3 professionals with incredible portfolios; 1 disappeared before we even got to working, 1 team (creativedash) lost their developer in the middle of the job, then refused to honor the full agreement and acted the most unprofessional I have ever seen, 1 dev who had worked for several major companies like Motorola, Four Seasons hotels etc. literally had am mental breakdown and threatened us with all sorts of insane shit if we didn't just let him take the money "because my life is hard" after lying chronically for weeks about working, when in reality he wasn't. I had to threaten him with legal action to get him to refund the money. Then we started using Wesley, our previous collaborator from Nxt, what we did not know was that due to personal issues in his life, he was way, way slower than we had ever anticipated and he went weeks above his own estimate. BUT it's still being worked on and will be done at 0.9.4 launch. By now we also got iOS and Android client due to our great community member Adrian. So re: GUI, no problems


New website

We have hired a really great team (finally a reliable one) that is making a brand new website for us which will visually show the IOTA ecosystem in the Internet-of-Things and give a "woah" factor for everyone new to the project. It will be launched right before launch of IOTA.


State of IOTA

IOTA development is going swimmingly, we had to do a fuckton of analysis which required a lot of computational power. The community came together and lent their idle cores (this is actually what IOTA was made for, distributed shared computing, so poetically beautiful) and we used AWS for the rest. This process is soon done, and once it is 0.9.4 will be done.
Also please do not forget that IOTA has been in testing and optimization since January, what we have now is several fold better than what we had in January, there has been no break in progress whatsoever. Not only that, but we also have another great community member - Tomer Krisi - who is developing the C# client so that we'll have both Java and C# around launch. Next up is C and Rust.

Thanks for the update.

[farl4web]

Thanks for the update David! 

[vgo]

Thanks for update, good job! 

[WorldCoiner]

Perfect, looking forward to test 0.9.4 !

[superresistant]

 
Oh I remember Wesley from Nxt. I didn't know he was slow but at least he has the skills for the job and will not leave us like the others.

[l8orre]

 
Thanks for the update David! 

[wizzardTim]

Thanks for the update! You are doing great work!

[acdc]

Communication has been terrible because there is nothing to report. Development has completely stalled at this point. Look at the chat room, nothing for days, people are talking about other projects to pass the time. But of course it's the community's fault for not doing enough to test or whatever.

Confirmed troll.

could be an unhappy stakeholder, nothing is confirmed bro

Very much confirmed, when someone says that you are BLACKMAILING them for asking them to test the software, they are unequivocally trolling. And we don't really have stakeholders, we got customers who purchased software, if they have no intention of testing the software they have no reason to complain either. End of story.

yeah, I can see your point, but people still don't always get how things work in decentralised projects now, that's why DAO is the next big thing, as it helps people understand the big change in organisational structure. If I buy an apartment off plan I don't expect to be told to prevent delays I need to paint the walls myself (that might be blackmail), but with IOTA it makes sense for people to get involved rather than criticize from the sidelines. But it cuts both ways too, so if you expect the community to behave differently so do the 'leadership'. You can't just call criticism trolling imo

[acdc]

Communication has been terrible because there is nothing to report. Development has completely stalled at this point. Look at the chat room, nothing for days, people are talking about other projects to pass the time. But of course it's the community's fault for not doing enough to test or whatever.

Confirmed troll.

could be an unhappy stakeholder, nothing is confirmed bro

I'll be daaamned...   a sockpuppet comes out in support of another sockpuppet...   makes you wonder if it's the same HYPOCRITE...   not to mention how it just so happens that both of them have desperately tried to give me a hard time in the past...     ROFLMAO!  

Absolutely NO DOUBT they have been pumping Iota and/or brown-nosing the devs through their regular bitcointalk handles...  

your involvement with IOTA is very worrying, are you going to negatively trust rate all the customers/investors/stakeholders if you have a tiff with CfB or iotatoken?

[teletobi]

Thanks for the Update!

[farl4web]

Oh I remember Wesley from Nxt. I didn't know he was slow but at least he has the skills for the job and will not leave us like the others.

He was very fast. He created the first UI of Nxt, very great stuff and good guy.