Beta, Beta on the Wall…

Thursday April 20th 2006, 10:17 am Printer Friendly Version
Filed under:AllPeers
Posted By: Matt

So the good news is that we have a very nice AllPeers version that is working well internally, and we’re happily consuming our tasty dogfood. The slightly less good news is that we still haven’t finished setting up our new registration server and superhub at the data center. We’re running the new Microsoft compiler (Visual Studio 2005), which we discovered requires us to use the trunk version of Mozilla (i.e. the future Firefox 3.0) instead of the branch (i.e. Firefox 1.5.0.x) that we use for the normal AllPeers client. This has required more work adapting our code than I expected, but we’re nearly done now. We’re now targeting Monday to send out the first invites.

My apologies for the delay. In the interest of expectation management, I should also point out that we still have a lot of work to do to make this version as awesome as we want it to be. But we’re getting there. More news very soon.


14 Comments »

  1. I don’t think i have EVER been more excited for a firefox ext.! Or is this more of a plugin? All i know is i can’t wait for this :) Great work guys!

    Comment by Elessar — 4/20/2006 @ 3:00 pm

  2. Tease! :)

    Seriously, thanks for the update. I was beginning to wonder.

    Comment by B.D. — 4/20/2006 @ 4:07 pm

  3. I have registered for the Beta with the email IDs of 3 other people(yes I had got the invite from allpeers)

    But I have not got any email notification from allpeers confirming that I have registered for it.Am I the only one who hasn’t recieved this confirmation or are they not sending them at all?

    Comment by aseem — 4/20/2006 @ 4:40 pm

  4. aseem, I’ve been invited like you and did send the emailadress of 3 other people as well. Didn’t got a confirmation-email as well.
    So I guess they don’t send such emails out. Would have been better if they would have.

    Still waiting for the downloadlink etc. :)

    Comment by marcel — 4/20/2006 @ 5:07 pm

  5. Keep up the great work guys.

    I want to test this big time but the wait will make it great!

    Comment by Fubie — 4/20/2006 @ 8:01 pm

  6. You can download allpeers here http://www.allpeers.com/download/indexf.htm

    But the catch is that you will need activation key to run it.

    Also see the todo list of allpeers here http://www.allpeers.com/download/release_notes.htm

    Shocking to see they have so much to do before they have a stable release….Currently there is no way to pause/resume your downloads through allpeers.

    Comment by aseem — 4/20/2006 @ 8:27 pm

  7. no bittorrent?
    but isnt that an integral part of allpeers?

    pls dont mind but im kind of shocked.

    “AllPeers is a free extension which combines the strength of Firefox and the efficiency of BitTorrent to transform your favorite browser into a media sharing powerhouse.”

    strange

    Comment by Mave — 4/20/2006 @ 10:22 pm

  8. Yeah, the list is pretty surprising. Maybe they jumped the gun going public with the project? I’d be worried about being beaten to market after the obviously high level of interest in this software.

    Comment by Michael — 4/21/2006 @ 2:01 am

  9. Again interesting to see that they have not got Bit Torrent implemented yet, maybe this is because of the NAT probs they seem to be having. I suspect that this is because of port forwarding. Perhaps they should look at the Hamachi project which seem to be having a high success rate in NAT traversal. I also agree that they may have jumped the gun in getting interest in the project..

    Comment by Asher — 4/21/2006 @ 10:58 am

  10. Just to clarify, absolutely all of those issues will be resolved in the short term. We just want to be completely open about what we have and what we don’t right now. I still think the product is of outstanding quality for beta software at this stage. Hopefully you will agree.

    Regarding BitTorrent: we do have it implemented, it works and we’re integrating it right now. There are no issues at all with NAT traversal and BitTorrent. The NAT traversal issue is a separate one and we’re well on our way to finishing that too.

    Comment by Matt — 4/21/2006 @ 11:06 am

  11. dear matt,
    could you please be little more accurate with “short term”. I tend to hear that line alot and “short term” becomes “Kinda Long Term” or even “Very Long Term”. No offence I realy long for your extansion, it sounds as very good idea, But I began to feel irritated with this waiting on the edge.

    Comment by GG — 4/21/2006 @ 11:50 am

  12. GG,

    Obviously we made a mistake in retrospect publishing our screenshots at the end of December. We never intended for this to mean that the product launch was imminent, but if it was interpreted that way, I’m sure that’s our fault. Nonetheless, it’s only been 4 months so it’s a big of a stretch to talk about “Very Long Term”.

    To answer your question, I expect those issues to be fixed over the next few days (for the simplest ones) to weeks. We will uptake the page accordingly (and I’m sure we’ll find new issues to put up there as well).

    Comment by Matt — 4/21/2006 @ 12:23 pm

  13. Thank you for answer (and for so quick reaction too). Well time is difrent for difrent people. I tend to overeact about things and when I see something interesting I tend to condense all my interest on it, in such way that every day of wait becomes slow. Yea I know I have no life but then noone is perfect
    I’ll try to be more patient, promise! :)

    Comment by GG — 4/21/2006 @ 12:31 pm

  14. I’m still waiting for download links as well (filled in the form on the 5th april)

    Comment by darkip — 4/22/2006 @ 1:01 pm

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