aww, thanks :)

It's already got an events organisation feature :). It's called 'gatherings' in patchwork (and other clients too.) Here's a screenshot of a gathering: https://imgur.com/PbB8R9q

Nope - it's not limited to simple message feeds. For example, I was able to implement a chess app and integrate it into one of the scuttlebutt viewer clients (patchbay): https://github.com/Happy0/ssb-chess. Someone's working on a Go (game) app too :).

There is an app for discussing and reviewing books too - and some of the messages for this app are rendered on the main feed too (alongside gatherings and other things.)

More information about apps here: https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/applications.html

Well. I will definitely be setting this up then. Thanks for the pointers.

Awesome :).

Let me know if you need a hand with any of the setup.

Well. I created a gathering. The UI gives me no indication of who can see it; if it's public or private. The UI gives me no indication of how I can "invite" people to it so they can see it (if it's even private).

The UI could do with some work.

You could create an issue on the patchwork github issues page (https://github.com/ssbc/patchwork/issues) outlining the changes you'd like to see, if you like :).

And / or start a thread in #new-people on scuttlebutt.

Here's a screenshot of a gathering rendered on the feed: https://imgur.com/a/NfCSL :D

There's someone working on a rust implementation at the moment. I can't find a link to the repository just now, but there's plenty of threads on it if you search 'rust' at the top right of patchwork (after installing and adding a pub.)

I'll find the repo and reply to this thread when I'm home later :)

There were some previous efforts towards a Go implementation, but I'm not sure how far along they got: https://github.com/maackle/ssb-igo

By the way, there's some beautiful protocol docs for scuttlebutt here: https://ssbc.github.io/scuttlebutt-protocol-guide/ =]

just noticed that the go implementation you linked to [https://github.com/maackle/ssb-igo] is actually "the game of Go on ssb"

Haha, woops! I meant https://github.com/andyleap/go-ssb

I guess it was muscle memory since I was looking at the ssb-igo repo earlier.

A great game, a programming language, and the 49th most common word in the English language walk into a bar...

Thanks, I really like the core ideas of ssb but the nodejs implementation and lack of a security review give me a lot of professional reservations. I'm inclined to fork and use a more off the shelf method of securing p2p connections. The practice of binding a "secure" web-server to localhost is also a bit [dubious](https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/86773/how-secur...).

What's your reservations about it being implemented in nodejs? It's not my favourite technology stack either (I much prefer scala / haskell), but it hasn't deterred me from using it or contributing to the project.

I wonder if a security review is something that can be funded through the open collective that is being set up (https://opencollective.com/secure-scuttlebutt-consortium ) or some other funding source.

By the way, the repositories that I mentioned earlier for the Rust implementation of the protocol in progress are mostly here:

https://github.com/AljoschaMeyer?tab=repositories

I have issues with js as a language but those are not security issues. My security-related issues are with the nodejs package infrastructure.

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3214624/security/malicious... The sprawling dependencies alongside potential security/breaking issues are huge. It is a large and vulnerable attack surface.

Fair play!