Empty promises and no screenshots.<p>When I click through on one of the blog posts I see:<p>"Advanced users can also help to correct problems: we welcome contributions. We expect people to tell us what needs to be corrected, but they can also do it and submit their patches. This is the way it worked with SFLphone and it works pretty well."<p>So you have no idea IF there are any problems, or do you know that there ARE problems, but you assume they will be corrected soon? If any of the above then how can you state "Ring gives you a ... an unmatched level of privacy."?<p>I am sorry to be negative about something that seems like it has our privacy at heart, but promising privacy when it might not be there at all is reckless. We in the first world have issues like "I don't want my e-mails scanned by companies" or "I don't want companies to see what I write", but in other parts of the worlds you can be killed if the wrong piece of communication falls in certain hands. So it is pretty important to get it right. You (Ring) provide no information on the site about the state of the code, reviews being done, etc.
Fairly thin on description on what it actually is. But according to the botttom of the page this is SFLphone:<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SFLphone" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SFLphone</a>
There's a fair amount of criticism brought up here, but I'd like to say that there are bunch of things that looks very promising, at least in the OS X version. Lots of software like this sucks terribly from a usability perspective, but here you have a nice web page (yeah, you need screenshots), a beautiful icon and a usable GUI.<p>What I'd REALLY like to see is a way to share one or multiple folders of files with my private darknet. If that's possible or not with the technology you use, I don't know. I've been missing a WASTE[1] like communication tool for as long as I can remember.<p>I guess one of your "competitors" will be Tox. But going to <a href="https://tox.im/" rel="nofollow">https://tox.im/</a> I still can't just download a client without going to a messy wiki and get nightly binaries. How many casual users know what a binary is?<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WASTE" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WASTE</a>
Pity, I get a 403 on <a href="http://gpl.savoirfairelinux.net/ring-download/mac_osx/ring-nightly.dmg" rel="nofollow">http://gpl.savoirfairelinux.net/ring-download/mac_osx/ring-n...</a>.
The download link for Mac does not work for me.
Tried this instead:<p><a href="http://gpl.savoirfairelinux.net/ring-download/" rel="nofollow">http://gpl.savoirfairelinux.net/ring-download/</a><p>Choose a directory from here.