That's great, but will version 1.0 have a file-transfer mechanism?
That's one missing feature that hinders us from choosing Ring over Tox
as a Skype replacement for our organization.
On Tue, 2017-07-18 at 18:56 -0400, Adrien Béraud wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> Ring 1.0 is coming soon and the team is working hard to fix many
> small issues before the release.
>
> Savoir-faire Linux has been maintaining the experimental blockchain
> contract registrar,
> used to register Ring usernames since we introduced this feature last
> year.
> Making Ring fully distributed and independent from any organization
> or central infrastructure is an important goal of the project.
> This includes the name service.
>
> This week-end, the server running the experimental server and the
> only node of the blockchain crashed and the blockchain data was
> corrupted.
> We restarted the service, however the existing blockchain data was
> lost.
>
> What does that mean for Ring users ?
> Ring accounts and contacts are preserved since they live on your
> devices,
> however blockchain usernames registered before 2017-07-15 are lost.
> Users can still join existing contacts using their RingID (in their
> history) and are encouraged to re-register a username.
> Ring maintains a local name cache, it should be cleared in order to
> register a new username:
> Quit Ring, then:
> GNU/Linux: delete ~/.cache/ring/namecache
> Android: go to Settings/Applications/Ring/Storage and press "clear
> cache"
> macOS: go to Finder, alt/option-click the "Go" menu and click
> Library, go to Caches/ring, delete namecache
> Win32: delete C:\Users\<username>\.cache\ring\namecache
> UWP: delete C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Packages\Savoir-
> faireLinux.GNURing_pjjre1ywe6tnj\LocalState\.cache
>
> What's next for the blockchain service ?
> We are working to get the blockchain service out of the
> "experimental" state,
> including setting up regular backups and having multiple blockchain
> nodes internally for redundancy.
> We also will be updating our documentation to encourage members of
> the community
> to run their own Ethereum blockchain nodes (participating to the same
> blockchain distributed network),
> allowing to make the blockchain network more resilient and less
> dependant on a single organization.
>
> Adrien Béraud
> Ring project director
> Savoir-faire Linux
>
>
