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2−title = "The State of Urbit: OS 1 → OS 1.N"
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4+description = "When we announced OS 1, in April, we started to disappear into Urbit. Since then, we’ve been living on Urbit like we never have before."
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66author = "Galen Wolfe-Pauly"
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2117When we announced OS 1, in April, we started to disappear into Urbit. Since then, we’ve been living on Urbit like we never have before. This has been our goal for years: to mature the system we’re building by becoming its first committed users. We knew that critical step toward Urbit’s maturity was being able to depend on it ourselves, but the system itself had to mature to the point that we could do that practically.
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2319We’ve done this in fits and starts. We’ve *tried* and failed a few times over the years. We’ve always *used* Urbit to some extent, but we’ve never *relied* on it. These past six months have been different. I can’t tell whether it was out of sheer determination and commitment, or that the system was just genuinely ‘there’. Either way, both Tlon and the Urbit Community genuinely live on Urbit now.
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3834In April, Urbit was slow, fragile, and didn’t always update itself properly. We made enormous progress on all of these.
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5551When we shipped OS 1 it was a bunch of separate pages (that were slow to load), all with separate ways of storing and processing data. Our interface work over the past six months is all about unification and simplification.
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6157Those two are by far the most significant, but there’s so much more. We [rewrote](https://github.com/urbit/urbit/pull/2937) the `group-store`, allowing for different roles (admin, moderators, and so on) in a group. We shipped better debugging tools, automatic reconnection, a settings panel, and overall visual polish and refinement.
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6561And I almost forgot [Leap](https://github.com/urbit/urbit/pull/3231): an omnibox for navigating around OS 1 with the keyboard. We have plans to make Leap much more powerful — but it’s a great first start toward making OS 1 keyboard accessible. I almost exclusively use [Leap](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Canon_Cat_keyboard.jpg) to get around OS 1 these days.
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