Nightweb
Consumer and social
anonymous p2p social network
SHOW HN2013
257points
133comments
#49of 1,739 in 2013
Top 3%of 2013 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
20 positive, 48 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 22 critical, out of 91 comments about the project. Thread score +0.02.
Idea: 13 for, 6 againstExecution: 2 for, 10 againstDesign: 4 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 3 againstPerformance: 0 for, 3 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Polished app and landing page for a beta
From 3 comments
This app is pretty well polished and from an ideological standpoint very awesome. If you have any feedback/requests for I2P, I'm sure that zzz would be very interested since he…
robert_foss on HNWow, this is just awesome! The app is really polished for an early beta release, especially that hidden markdown feature. Just three things that come to my mind: 1. how long does…
ge0rg on HNDefinitely looking forward to using it and reading the code. Landing page is profesh too. Well done.
pandeiro on HN
Decentralized, anonymous design appeals
From 3 comments
This app is pretty well polished and from an ideological standpoint very awesome. If you have any feedback/requests for I2P, I'm sure that zzz would be very interested since he…
robert_foss on HNI always had the idea to create a distributed social network, I'm looking forward to seeing how this goes :-) Hopefully very well, would love to delete my facebook account.
oellegaard on HNVery intriguing. I was just beginning research into a server-less shared state model and this seems to solve that quite nicely.
chuhnk on HN
Objections
Cannot be installed on some Android phones or countries
From 2 comments
Not yet indexed by Play Store, but can be found by going to the http url. Oops, the problem is: My 2 T-Mobile HTC 4G phones are not compatible with this app. Neither T-Mobile…
rurban on HNIs there country restriction? It says incompatible for my country
challymoore on HN
High mobile data and battery usage
From 2 comments
Does this have a particularly adverse effect on phone battery life, when compared to a well-written app for a centralized social network (aka, not the Facebook Android app;…
w1ntermute on HNWow, this is just awesome! The app is really polished for an early beta release, especially that hidden markdown feature. Just three things that come to my mind: 1. how long does…
ge0rg on HN
Sybil attacks and spam resistance unclear
From 2 comments
I wonder how they're going to get around the problem of malicious collectives and Sybil attacks, given the anonymity constraint. You should be able to set up dozens of fake…
saintx on HN>How does it avoid spam? For me a good solution would be to use machine learning, the same way spam filtering works for email. A decentralized version of Reddit could actually be…
joelthelion on HN
Requests
Desktop or web client
From 2 comments
Why do you say it's a "killer app" for Android? I think it's a great idea, but it does not use the fact that it lives on a mobile phone, so it's certainly not a killer app for…
sklivvz1971 on HNThis is so cool. It makes me want to switch to Android just to use it. Any thoughts on a desktop client?
bdr on HN
Wi-Fi only setting
From 1 comment
I think a setting to only use WiFi would be valuable for a lot of users.
maniacwhat on HN
F-Droid or APK download
From 2 comments
Please bring this to FDroid! In the meantime an APK for download would be nice.
fruscon on HNGreat stuff but will it really scale? See secushare.org/2011-FSW-Scalability-Paranoia Did anyone try to save Nightweb's data directory encrypted in Dropbox or ownCloud? Would it…
SergeG on HN
Questions
How does it differ from tent.io
From 1 comment
Here goes: http://nightweb.net/#type=user&userhash=4zfhmwiio7kdp5ocvgrqpt6ktsgp3hgm How does the protocol differ from, say, tent.io? Just in case anyone has the same issue: on my…
motter on HN
How does it get past NAT on mobile networks
From 2 comments
had the same idea a while back and was pondering how I would get past NAT if you are on a mobile network. does it work there as well? I'm assuming it will continue to work as…
jcfrei on HNGreat idea. In fact, this type of functionality is hopefuly becoming an Internet Standard: http://www.internetsociety.org/articles/moving-toward-censorship-free-internet However,…
synctext on HN
Alternatives named
tent.io
From 1 comment
Here goes: http://nightweb.net/#type=user&userhash=4zfhmwiio7kdp5ocvgrqpt6ktsgp3hgm How does the protocol differ from, say, tent.io? Just in case anyone has the same issue: on my…
motter on HN
Cjdns
From 1 comment
Have you considered Cjdns, an alternative to I2P that does not require the internet?
projectmeshnet on HN
tor2web
From 1 comment
There's no reason a third party couldn't host a read-only view into Nightweb, performing something similar to tor2web.org. The third party would be running their own Nightweb…
pudquick on HN