Could we trust Greg to deliver?
This was posted on Dec 1, on slack by Ed Eykholt (LivelyGig):
"My team and I attempted to build the LivelyGig product and then the Synereo Social product alpha release over the last year and a half. During this time, LivelyGig had two contracts with Synereo -- one formally signed and the other one verbally agreed for most of the terms. Im thankful to Dor and Greg for all the opportunities that provided. The current server stack was disappointing to me, relative to the claims Greg made about it. It had issues with stability, scalability, predictability, and not having a documented API or query syntax for a long period of time. Those issues were in a standalone node configuration. Just over the past month most of those issues have been addressed. Greg was slower than I expected to address these problems or even acknowledge how serious they were for creating a product. Multi-node work is still progressing, and I wasn't personally disappointed on that front. Integration with Omni Layer is still progressing. Developers were frustrated and had a hard time adopting to the pi-calculus inspired programming paradigm. And yet, I still had faith that a meaningful alpha phase could happen. I understand completely why Dor was disappointed in the tech stack and the past assertions and promises Greg made about it.Because the side-by-side architecture (i.e., SpecialK server stack for content along with Omni Layer for AMP) was becoming more problematic and because of the growing interest in RChain, Greg decided and announced that the Synereo Social alpha product would be for collecting Ux feedback and not really to become a product. Perhaps Dor and the whole of the Synereo community never really accepted or internalized that the alpha would not be migrated smoothly into a real product. Greg's decision and focus also meant to me that the LivelyGig product, which relies on most of the same server features, would be difficult to finish on the SpecialK server stack. Because of that and because of the interpersonal conflicts between Greg & Dor made it difficult for me to plan just about anything with Synereo Ltd., I decided to stop building LivelyGig on the SpecialK stack...."