My biggest critique is I don't understand what it really offers, I mean as far as distributed hosting of my files, isn't that just a web server? The commenting posting CMS stuff seems like a competitor to wordpress... so i am guessing its like a blogging engine focused on media instead of text?
GNU MediaGoblin – A decentralized alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud
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Re: GNU MediaGoblin – A decentralized alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud
#12Reminds of the line from Spaceballs: "now you see that evil will always triumph because good is dumb." Seriously, what an amatuerish-looking mess. White text on black, no clear navigation path, I can't imagine any random end user actually using one of these sites.
The name is the best part of it. People like globins.
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#13I recommend the news and tour section, to learn more about project. Especially the participation in Google Summer of Code and GNOME Outreach Program for Women program, references to PRISM - and decentralizing the web, donation campaign where they raised 45K are interesting. It uses python, postgresql, and they were/are looking for women contributors and/or students. PS: ..I am not part of the team. Edit: See also the…
link to full stack description http://mediagoblin.readthedocs.org/en/v0.3.3/devel/codebase....
Re: GNU MediaGoblin – A decentralized alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud
#14This appears to be a photo gallery software, that also handles video and sound. That's fine, but there's no way that's a "decentralized alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud". Am I missing something?
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#15My biggest critique is I don't understand what it really offers, I mean as far as distributed hosting of my files, isn't that just a web server? The commenting posting CMS stuff seems like a competitor to wordpress... so i am guessing its like a blogging engine focused on media instead of text?
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Re: GNU MediaGoblin – A decentralized alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud
#16Reminds of the line from Spaceballs: "now you see that evil will always triumph because good is dumb." Seriously, what an amatuerish-looking mess. White text on black, no clear navigation path, I can't imagine any random end user actually using one of these sites.
"Seriously, what an amatuerish-looking mess. White text on black, no clear navigation path, I can't imagine any random end user actually using one of these sites." You could say the same thing about MS-DOS, but if it gets the job done it will get used. The most important thing is functionality, not UI. After all, you can't polish a turd.
UI is functionality.
Re: GNU MediaGoblin – A decentralized alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud
#17My biggest critique is I don't understand what it really offers, I mean as far as distributed hosting of my files, isn't that just a web server? The commenting posting CMS stuff seems like a competitor to wordpress... so i am guessing its like a blogging engine focused on media instead of text?
Hi! Lead developer of MediaGoblin here.
I agree, the frontpage of mediagoblin.org can use some improvement. We're working on that. If you want a fast summary of things, you can still watch the video from the crowdfunding campaign we ran last year with the FSF (hell, you can still donate too!). http://mediagoblin.org/pages/campaign.html
We also have an intern helping us clean up the homepage. Things should be getting clearer soon, I think. I agree that http://mediagoblin.org/ could use some improvement.
In the meanwhile, if you're wondering what it offers, right now it already supports nice photo, video, audio, document (pdf.js!), and even 3d model support. It's written in Python, so it's easy to get hacking on. We have a lot more exciting things on the way too, most noticably federation; we currently have someone working full time on adding federation via the Pump API: https://github.com/e14n/pump.io/blob/master/API.md
This will make it so that even though there's a bunch of separate MediaGoblin instances out there that you should be able to have a lot more of the same social features of other media hosting sites as if they're in the same place.
I'm happy to answer questions if anyone has any!
Re: GNU MediaGoblin – A decentralized alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
So it's an excellent opportunity for up and coming designers to contribute to a promising open source project.
The architecture is also fundamentally flawed. How many people want to be the SysAdmin for all 2.0 services for their entire extended family? We need self-organizing systems, not federation.
What do you mean by "self-organizing system"?
Re: GNU MediaGoblin – A decentralized alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud
#19I recommend the news and tour section, to learn more about project. Especially the participation in Google Summer of Code and GNOME Outreach Program for Women program, references to PRISM - and decentralizing the web, donation campaign where they raised 45K are interesting. It uses python, postgresql, and they were/are looking for women contributors and/or students. PS: ..I am not part of the team. Edit: See also the…
Thanks for linking to those. The tour page, sadly, is pretty out of date... the screenshots they show don't reflect reality! Things look a lot nicer now I think.
See also the video from the campaign page, which describes things better than the actual site: http://mediagoblin.org/pages/campaign.html
Unfortunately the site is in bad need of updating; there's so much going on in the codebase right now that it's been hard to prioritize. Luckily we now have an intern who is going to be taking on that work!
And yes, independent instances will be able to talk to each other soon. We have an Outreach Program for Women participant actively working on federation via the Pump API! https://github.com/e14n/pump.io/blob/master/API.md
That's not all that's going on alone, but you can get some sense of what else is happening by checking out: http://mediagoblin.org/news/summer-of-awesome.html
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#20My biggest critique is I don't understand what it really offers, I mean as far as distributed hosting of my files, isn't that just a web server? The commenting posting CMS stuff seems like a competitor to wordpress... so i am guessing its like a blogging engine focused on media instead of text?
Hi! Lead developer of MediaGoblin here. I agree, the frontpage of mediagoblin.org can use some improvement. We're working on that. If you want a fast summary of things, you can still watch the video from the crowdfunding campaign we ran last year with the FSF (hell, you can still donate too!). http://mediagoblin.org/pages/campaign.html We also have an intern helping us clean up the homepage. Things should be getting…
When do you plan to reach 1.0 with your checklist items? What is a short summary on how federation will work? Do you plan theme-ing support?