Does anyone know a reason why CouchAppSpora, now Monocles, development appears to have stopped? See https://github.com/maxogden/monocles/graphs/contributors. I'm guessing that privacy controls, and configuring filtered replication, were difficult to implement well. I notice that Hoodie is going to be working on these features next, and wonder how successful they are or will be.
The reason I'm asking is that I have a potential client interested in making a social network site which could share user profile data with other social network sites, and thought Monocles on top of Backbone on top of Hoodie might be one way to make it. I'm recommending to the client to consider using a Facebook group first, or maybe Diaspora or Friendica, or maybe Joomla with Community Builder or JomSocial. But if I had to write it myself, I might go with something like Monocles-Backbone-Hoodie. Tim
