2016 for ZeroNet: Getting attention
ZeroNet turned 2 years old today. Over the last year it received some important and interesting new features:
- Newsfeed: Follow your favorite sites, mentions, comments in one place.
- Search in sites you currently seeding.
- Merger sites: Encourages even more decentralization by separating the data and the display logic and it’s also solves some scalability problems.
- ZeroMe social site.
- Advanced optional files features and downloaded files manager.
- Multilanguage support: thanks to contributors the user interface and the sites are now translated to 14 languages.
- Lots of other important performance optimizations and bugfixes.
It was one the most exciting year of my entire life:
I got invited to the Decentralized Web Summit in San Francisco. First I turned down the invitation, because I spent my 32 years to desperately try to avoid speaking in front of lots of people, but fortunately one week later they reached me again: “I have to be there at all cost”.
So gave in, flew there, did my talk, I think it was horrible, I was very nervous, but after my presentation I got lots of positive feedback, met really nice and friendly people and it was very uplifting to hear that the original inventors of the Internet — Tim Berners-Lee and Vint Cerf — are at least concerned about Internet centralization as I do, so I came back with very positive feelings.
Then did an another speak in Berlin and around that time a company reached me that they really like my project and want to sponsorship me, so in September I was able to left my job (after 8 years) and start focusing on ZeroNet.
In December I got an unexpected reach that is offered a HUGE opportunity for me and for the project. It’s going to be a big challenge for me and requires lots of effort, but I accepted it and immediately started working on it. I can’t tell any more details, but I guarantee you won’t be disappointed if it turns out well.
Thanks for the year-long support and stay tuned! :)
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