We built OS 1 with one thing in mind: using it for Tlon and the Urbit community every day
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This is a success. We (the Tlon team and the Urbit community) *live* on OS 1 from day to day
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It definitely feels like homesteading though — we still have to work around the quirks
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We want the experience of using Urbit to be on par with centralized software. We’re not there yet
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Urbit can be slow, there are a few runtime bugs, and over-the-air updates can be unreliable
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We are actively working on all of these things, and they will get better in the coming months.
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For people trying out the system for the first time it can be frustrating and disorienting at times
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We weren’t ready for the level of interest that OS 1 has created. The underlying system (Urbit OS) is still young and can’t support everyone just yet
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We have always worked out in the open, letting anyone experiment with what we’re building in whatever state it’s in
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If you’re really curious about what we’re up to: please, try it out. Boot a comet to experiment or buy a planet (it’ll always be yours, even if you set it aside while we improve the system)
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Our goal is to build a simple system that’s both nice to use and can last forever. We’re getting there
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