October - Visual and pseudonymous social network.

@jvosloo Thank you @jvosloo! Let's make it a thriving community!

@adriano_cahete You can use the mobile web app in the meanwhile! We will bring an Android App as soon as we have hired the right people to build it!

@aaronoleary Not yet. We're focusing on getting the model right first. Once the economics solidify, we'll move increasingly to the blockchain over time. we'll probably have the tokens themselves as an ERC-20 token before anything else. but that requires sensible economic policy first.

@chrismessina Whoops! Thanks for checking us out. Was this on web/mobile web or on iPhone? Will try to get this sorted asap!

@paulsbohm I believe this was on Safari on iOS... but wouldn't the redirect URL be universal?

@chrismessina fixed now! (might have to explicitly reload the page with the FB login button)

@3x14159265 you can comment from mobile Web, just not post top-level posts yet. We'll make that happen soon!

@somangshu Thank you @somangshu. It's important to stress that our security is designed to protect normal people posting secrets, not to protect whistleblowers from nation states. We will keep improving our security and have a roadmap with lots of important security milestones, but whistleblower protection is very hard and complicated and legally fraught, so we don't think we're currently a good match for that.

@paulsbohm i agree. It more complicated. But would you put it out to the people so that they know the platform shall not be used for such cases. How would you explicitly stop these wistleblowers if they wished to use October ?. I definitely feel this powers people to maintain the anonymity when they wish for. Kuddos to that.!

@chazthetic Thank you Charles! Let me know if you have ideas for how we can make it even better! We're super thrilled that people like it so much!

@teapot I have a computer security background (specializing on exploit design and banking security), so I know from experience how hard of a problem the security of our platform is. We have hardened security on the platform, but there are ways in which we can still improve. Security isn't a feature that's ever done, so this will be an ongoing process that never stops for us. Our most important data is the identity of our anonymous posters, and we're protecting these identities as securely as we can. We will automatically unlink identities from posts after a few months, so that after this period we won't be able to recover the identities ourselves anymore. It's important to point out here that we are not good for whistleblowers: We have to comply with law enforcement subpoenas, and we'll know people's anonymous identities for up to a year and have to hand those over if our lawyers can't fight the subpoenas off. We're VC and angel funded and we will continue to require money to sustain ourselves until we get our economy working. I do think there will be potential for the users to own part of October, and we have negotiated a lot of control with our investors to be able to do things like that in the future. Thanks for giving us a try! Your feedback is super welcome

@cozysd We're building an attention economy where coins flow between content producers, hunters, curators, moderators and admins, and consumers, and we'll take a cut of that. It's an alternate model to advertising.