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Duncan Lock started following the idea "Google Android Mobile App" in Kublax Financial Technologies Ltd.

Duncan Lock started following the idea "Manual Import" in Kublax Financial Technologies Ltd.

Duncan Lock started following the idea "Native Linux-Support would be great!" in Spotify.

Duncan Lock replied on February 16, 2009 23:00 to the question "What platforms will Postbox support?" in Postbox, Inc.:

Yeah, a linux version would be extremely welcome.

Duncan Lock replied on February 16, 2009 22:58 to the praise "A vote for Postbox on Linux" in Postbox, Inc.:

Yes please!!

Duncan Lock gave praise in SpiderOak on February 05, 2009 10:52:

SpiderOak now has a Forum: https://spideroak.com/forum/

Yes, it's finally happened! SpiderOak has started a user forum!

From the release notes from the v2.3.6332 release (https://spideroak.com/release_notes):

Added Auto-Login links to the SpiderOak User Forum: You may now auto-login to the forum using your existing SpiderOak account. Do this by choosing Help -> User Forums from the client application menu. On Ubuntu, this is found by contextual click on the SpiderOak menubar icon.

So yeah, go to it!

https://spideroak.com/forum/

dflock replied on October 08, 2008 10:50 to the discussion "I think SpiderOak should be more open and community focussed" in SpiderOak:

On a related note, proper community hosting for the code which SpiderOak has open sourced would be a good idea:

https://spideroak.com/code

These are just downloadable .zip files on a page - this isn't the way to build a developer community.

I really applaud SpiderOak releasing some of their code - but what's the point of open-sourcing stuff if you don't want people to hack on it? Hosting these projects on Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/ or Google code: http://code.google.com/hosting/ (or somewhere similar) would be a big improvement, helping raise awareness and get people involved.

This seems like a wasted opportunity to me - what do you think?

dflock started a conversation in SpiderOak on October 08, 2008 10:44:

I think SpiderOak should be more open and community focussed

It's slightly disturbing how 'closed' the SpiderOak team are - they have no forum (other that this) and their blog hasn't been updated in ~5 months. For a modern internet company this is a fairly poor show - from the outside SpiderOak looks like it's dead or dying.

Yes, they updated their website a while ago and they've apparently got a new software version coming out soon - but these signs of life are really hard to see unless you look closely.

I think that opening up and being more community focused would go a long way toward reassuring customers and potential customers that SpiderOak is a durable, viable, vibrant company. A forum, and an up-to date blog would help a lot, without taking a huge amount of time.

So, what do you think?

dflock started following the question "How to autostart SpiderOak minimized under Ubuntu-Linux?" in SpiderOak.