I'm not asking about the security. scuttlebutt had a model whereas ssb has feeds and scuttlebutt had an event 'update' but ssb seems to push all new updates of the feed.id though a stream.

Are you making ssb for a more specific / narrow use (different concept of behavior) or is this just early days and may you be planning to incorporate other things that you previously had that aren't feeds?

I am currently using this npm module (https://github.com/rtc-io/rtc-mesh) that has scuttlebutt installed, What I am looking into is to get the old scuttlebutt replaced with ssb (but it looks like an entirely different beast). Should I just use the security feature of original scuttlebutt and carry on as with the old or are you going to make ssb better than scuttlebutt?

Thanks

Normally you call publish() to create new messages, and that uses the master feed in the sbot instance.
If you want to use a different feed, you open a feed instance in your program, generate the message, and use sbot's add().

This needs to be documented.

All of our dependences are now compat with node 4. Let's update the install instructions accordingly!

There's no reference for how to set names from the CLI. Pubs frequently need that, so add it to the docs.

@NHQ found that adding blobs doesn't match the documentation. What we have is correct if you embed scuttlebot, but not if you use the client.

To use the current api, you need to calculate the hash yourself.

function createHash() {
  var hash = crypto.createHash('sha256'), hasher
  return hasher = pull.through(function (data) {
    hash.update(data)
  }, function () {
    hasher.digest = '&'+hash.digest('base64')+'.sha256'
  })
}
var hasher = createHash()
pull(
   toPull.source(fileStream),
   hasher,
    sbot.blobs.add(function (err) {
      hasher.digest //here is the hash.
     })
)

The better solution would be to update muxrpc to send the value in the callback in a sink stream.

https://github.com/ssbc/docs/blob/master/intro-to-using-sbot.md#create-client

This is the current instructions... @dominictarr I know you're working on this, but is there something immediately better we can do? It's a bit ugly.

I get 404 on first 2 links in readme. My be it's time to update them? =D

ssbc/ssb-docs is kind of a clumsy name, let's just do ssbc/docs

no you can't

installed with npm install -g scuttlebot
then running sbot -h
gives : Invalid command

propose there is an sbot --help option.
I might take a stab at a pull request for it if I can find the relevant files.

We should get a simple brochure site up for scuttlebot, something comparable to

• http://reactjs.com
• http://electron.atom.io/
• http://redis.io

We just need something nice that explains the pitch, gives some blurbs about the why, and links out to docs/examples/download.

This may be our chance to put hermies the hermit-crab to work:

(bottom one)