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Correct. Simple frameworks that you then add more complex components to are better. Same for OS'.

Yes, correct on the second part also.

Can you explain to me how unsexy problems like browser incompatibilities (yes a major pain) lie anywhere within the scope of webpy? Those seem to lie within the scope of the templating system and js library that you choose.

A larger, more complex framework does present serious problems when you have to architecture everything in strange ways to meet scaling needs or otherwise.

Note how much the twitter guys were so scared by ROR's complexity that they resisted doing the most trivial modifications? I want to understand my framework "all the way down." This is much the same reason I use linux.

Exactly. Webpy is for programmers, django for people who want to feel like programmers, but are really just walling themselves into pre-defined ultra-boring patterns.

That security gaffe was in Markdown - a piece of junk that I've been pointing out flaws in for the past year.

When you have this many people on your app, this will always be true.

90% of people in general are not net savvy.

No and Yes. I am thinking of releasing tons of code for it though as soon as I wrap up the large project I'm working on.

I highly recommend webpy.

edit: downvote?

I was going to make a joke about this topic before I read your comment but this is actually true.

You know it's not cool anymore when grandma is on it.

Hey thanks! Do they cover all subdomains also though?

How about you give us an example of one?

If you are wondering about the volume of planning we do, there's no question that I've thought about marketing for a huge amount of time.

Not the only thing.

You do realize that this would be the death of so many startups, right? They're already demonstrating that they would rather lift ideas from other companies than buy anyone.

I don't care for the founders much at all. They obviously got very lucky in choosing their product. Their technology is as boring as they come (PHP et al.)

More that I don't like about facebook, the product:

They "sell" privacy. So much of their marketing revolves around the idea that what you do on facebook will only be known among those you want it to. And yet here, facebook fails miserably. It lets in exactly the worst people: law enforcement, employers, school officials.

Oh and the content of their photo galleries is trash because the design encourages people to upload every single picture on their harddrive. Early, early myspace even had them beat in this area.

I don't know, I just never liked it or them much at all.

Was thinking of doing something very similar a while ago. Good luck.

This is why I hope that all of facebook's new apps fail. They have a large enough userbase already to crush anything new.