Happy Birthday AllPeers!
One year ago today we unveiled the first public beta of AllPeers.
Our primary goal with this first version was to collect the feedback of as many people as possible. Being the most complex Firefox extension in the world combining the best browser and the best P2P protocol, it was essential for us to get real world experience. Our philosophy has always been to release early and often and it has proven to be very useful for our development process. So we listened, hired more people and worked very hard to add features that were requested and address bugs that people found over the seven subsequent beta versions.
In the last 12 months we introduced secure chat, offline storage of files and a bundle with Firefox. We fixed more than 1,000 bugs (from minor enhancement to major rewriting of features). We improved the user interface. We opened the source code. We received the help of fantastic volunteers who translated AllPeers into 15 different languages. We were the recipient of multiple awards and spoke at various conferences. But this is just the beginning and a preview of what we are cooking. We will soon release a new beta version integrating further enhancements and two major new features: the automatic download of files and the support for downloading and most importantly sharing torrents.
It has been an amazing 12 months and it would not have been possible without the dedication of our (small) product team who is now made up of certainly some of the best Mozilla specialists in the world. So to the product team and to the hundreds of thousands of users who are supporting and helping us working toward version 1.0 I would just say one word: Merci !
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Happy birthday!
Comment by Adam — 8/31/2007 @ 8:19 am
Happy birthday to this growing child
Comment by Mauro — 8/31/2007 @ 8:51 am
I wish a great new year to come to this great extension & the wonderful dedicated team. All the best for all of you.
Comment by Tommyx — 9/3/2007 @ 4:20 pm