i received what was promised. good luck going forward, and my heartfelt condolences on the passing of ilya.

Woop's url is 600Milliondogs.org !

I also just kicked in $5 and never got a thing.. funny you got over 200k... hummm how about my $5 back, and don't send it to me, go to 600MIlliondogs.org and donate it to them, they deserve it WAY more then you all do ! Total Scam after reading what others are saying.....

I am so sorry to hear about Ilya.

To follow up. I received the t-shirt and stickers. However, the point I was making is that my pledge level was promising me a CD of the software.

I realize that you changed what you were going to deliver. However, my objection is that you did that after funding was complete and I had no opportunity to say "no, I don't want to fund that."

Then you send out another email asking for more money. It'd make me laugh, except I'm already annoyed.

You don't deliver what you promise, miss most of your deadlines, and got funded 20 times more than you asked for and then you have the gall to send an email asking for MORE money????

Why should I throw good money after bad?

At least this email promises something you might deliver - nothing. I'd rather buy shares in a company that is going under. Thanks all the same.

well...apparently this was a rip off.

all i'm hearing is the sound of crickets, and maybe the sound of someone selling out. i feel like you guys missed the boat. google+ will probably eat you alive if zuckerberg didn't already. too bad. the alpha seems like a bit of a dog--more sleeping dog than alpha dog.

Exactly Matthew, what the hell happened here? The Alpha is still just sitting there and no updates in nearly 8 months.....

Did these guys fall off the map? No updates in a long time.

Enquiring minds want to know - how's it going, folks? Anything working yet? Is it still in alpha, and are you still rolling this out to your backers?

Diaspora is worlwide and aliens. Hello...Europe :)

Saw on the web that you got funded by Zuckerberg. That seems ironic given you seem to be referring to facebook's use of our private data. What does this mean for Diaspora?

hi, I'm a $100 backer from Kickstarter, still waiting for an invitation, a cd, a t-shirt etc etc. Any word?

With the funding finished, is it still possible to donate to you guys in other ways?

Hi. I'm still waiting for my pledge goods in the UK. Any news on when I might expect them?

Updates anytime soon?

So excited and proud at how well this took off and exceeded the goal beyond wildest expectations! Please sprinkle some of that magic pixie dust in this direction—our project finishes tonight at midnight and we've been steadily climbing but still have a ways to go. Thanks for everything you're doing and wishing you all a fantastic and rewarding new year! :)

I'm an investor. Are we going to get share certificates for our equity in the company?
I got a t-shirt and two stickers, but no paperwork.

Finally I received my shirt here in germany. Thanks for your work and keep on. Best M.

We are awaiting invites and love this concept. Please communicate well with supporters--perhaps bring in a person for this purpose. I have several family and friends eager for Diaspora.

Got my t-shirt and stickers, thanks! Can't wait for my invite.

got t-shirt, stickers and invite :) keep it up guys

Great! I can't wait for the invites!

I got a t-short & cd in the mail. Sorry to be dumb but what am I supposed to do with the CD? And not sure if that is the same as getting the invite to lg-in onto the site. Thanks,

Just got my Diaspora t-shirt through the post. Looks great! Looking forward to getting an invite so I can start exploring the platform.

Pretty annoyed that all sorts of people I know who did not support Diaspora have had invites, yet I as a backer still haven't.

Never got an invite nor my rewards. Slightly disappointed.

blog.joindiaspora.com has updates about the current alpha invites.

Hi everyone,

The Diaspora guys have been working really hard and asked me to help them out with some issues that have arisen.

All of the backer rewards have been sent out. If you have not received yours, please email addr@joindiaspora.com with as many details as possible.

I am currently going through the emails that are already there.

I apologize for the delay.
-Dan

Been 8 days since the announcement, no invite here either. Wrote to the team directly, but no response. Kickstarter also equally unforthcoming on this issue.

Got the t shirt, looks good, had a few people asking what diaspora was after seeing the t-shirt and I enlightened them. thanks guys : )

The guys at Diaspora need to learn one thing about the IT business, and that is just being a good programmer is not enough. If you make commitments to backers you need to fulfill them. If for some reason there is a problem that is delaying that commitment being fulfilled then you communicate the status regularly.

Similarly if you tell backers who may have had problems with the survey to send you an email you reply to them with an update. I don't even care if it's a bulk "Hey thanks for your email. We're a little snowed under right now. We'll get back to you in a week or so" sort of email. You just need to communicate.

I know the schwag will take a little time to reach me and the 6000+ other backers (i.e. if I'm am going to get any - I don't know - I've had no replies from anyone at Diasopra) and I'm kind of OK with that.

What I'm annoyed about is that as one of the top 300 or so backers (based on amount pledged) I am yet to receive an invitation to view and use the Diaspora Alpha. Come on. You're software engineers. That part should not be too hard. Even I, as a novice hack programmer, could probably cobble something together in a few day that would automatically send out invitations to a list of backers.

A little confused. Was waiting for the invitation but apparently everyone is already signing up at diasp.org. Have I missed something?

Why does the address https://joindiaspora.com take me to a page to install Google Frame. In addition, the tab says that the web page doesn't support my version of IE. I'm using IE 9. What gives?

I do understand that the project has been fully funded, however, I was just wondering if their is going to be another funding request soon regarding the project

Still no access to survey and - as a result - no t-shirt. I was emailing (to addr@joindiaspora.com), filling reports, posting to forums. Is there anyone in the know how to get in touch with actual Diaspora team human being and let them know, that some backers still do not have their swag, and have no way to communicate that fact???

Espero que vensa a facebook, confio en ustedes, sigan asi. Desde México, Durango

I just got the Diaspora package yesterday - shirt and stickers. Yikes, that's the shirt?! Someone spent 15 minutes drawing little sperms emanating from "Diaspora"? Is this a joke? Where's the real shirt?

I am a backer, this has been poorly run with promises made in the beginning then we were contacted with asking Us to let them reneg on promises of donation promos. I wanted the Disc for collectibility and stickers to help advertise this. You don't promise one thing and then midrace, change directions when people donated on promises given. Still waiting on disc, Stickers and somewhere online for tutorial for the Windows users & non geeks. Unless EVERYONE can participate, this will falter.

I just received my Diaspora* dvd today and have not the slightest idea what to do with it. I don't see an *.exe anywhere in the files. I am not a developer, just a person who is concerned about Internet and social networking privacy issues. HELP!

How long should fulfillment take? I haven't received anything yet.

Even though illmill seems like a douche he does have a point. I know very little about all this stuff so I have absolutely no idea how this site will benefit me. I have no idea what is wrong with "centralized social networks" because I have no idea what that means.

Point is, you should define the purpose and goals of this project in the most visual way possible right after people see the word Diaspora. I visited your site to find out if I could benefit from whatever you guys are creating, but it didn't answer anything because you continued to use terminology that people that are bad at being nerds (like me) have never seen before. In my opinion, you should find some people who don't know anything about all this and find the best way to explain it to them. Then you should consolidate that info and put it on the home page of your website.

Good luck. I think this is a good idea...although I'm not sure.

Hello everyone!
Just want to contradict some of the comments I see here. This project is one of many great steps in ensuring a distributed internet with security and user in mind. There are many who think centralized social networks are bad, but do not have an option. Personally I hope to see much more distributed systems, joined by this kind of real social network, and possibly using Diaspora as a backbone to new services. I do not think it is far off that everyone now connected to the internet will provide services to their own social network using open source solutions. Why not distributed Wikipedia, Youtube, search engines? And I do not take "it's not possible" as an argument against this. I hope to have a OpenWRT router running this, and I am going to help my friends to get this up and going. IMHO you guy could not spend your time better! Money and fame will come as a byproduct, if you do this well!