On: Urbit in 2017

[ZenoArrow]

Let's start with this... If you ran your own server, what sort of uses do you think you'd have for it?

[flukus → ZenoArrow]

Email, document sharing, custom web apps, etc, does urbit do this?

[KeatonDunsford → flukus]

Not well, yet. But that's the plan. All in the blog post.

[flukus → KeatonDunsford]

> All in the blog post.

Email and file sharing aren't mentioned. What can it do now?

[ThrowAway123543 → flukus]

It has a webserver and networking and it can access the filesystem and it can send messages to other users securely. There's also an ntalk kind of app and a simple threaded discussion things but they're more like demo apps than things you'd use intrinsically.

I think it's fair to say the only reason to run this is to develop for it right now, it's not something end users have a use for.