Flowhub is now in Public Beta

I'm using the latest Firefox Aurora release and I am getting very sluggish scrolling and slow loading on the main page. I wish this trend of gigantic slide-able pictures and animated transitions would stop. Yes, it feels like I'm browsing through a tablet/phone app, but I'm on a desktop, I'd love to have a desktop experience.

Sorry for the rant, the application itself seems nice though.

EDIT: also please don't force people to register and login to try the app, if I can't just get on the page and try it without giving away some private data, I don't really feel tempted to try it at all.

Re: Flowhub is now in Public Beta

#4

Post by bergie » Wed, May 07, 2014, 4:28 PM UTC

Morgawr wrote: post #3

If the website's performance is a promise of the performance of the application, I don't really feel tempted to try it. I'm using the latest Firefox Aurora release and I am getting very sluggish scrolling and slow loading on the main page. I wish this trend of gigantic slide-able pictures and animated transitions would stop. Yes, it feels like I'm browsing through a tablet/phone app, but I'm on a desktop, I'd love to…

Nah, that is related to GSS stylesheets on the site making use of the matrix3d part of CSS. Unfortunately lots of (expecially Linux) 3D drivers are not exactly up to the task.

Edit: as for required login, that isn't needed to play with just the examples.

Photo booth: http://app.flowhub.io/#example/7804187

Animated clock: http://app.flowhub.io/#example/7135158

Canvas pattern generator: http://app.flowhub.io/#example/1319c76fe006fb34c9c9

Re: Flowhub is now in Public Beta

#5

Post by politician » Wed, May 07, 2014, 4:28 PM UTC

"This program requests read and write access to all of your public repos".

Can this be scoped better? I'm willing to give access to one public repo.

Re: Flowhub is now in Public Beta

#6

Post by bergie » Wed, May 07, 2014, 4:30 PM UTC

politician wrote: post #5

"This program requests read and write access to all of your public repos". Can this be scoped better? I'm willing to give access to one public repo.

Not to my understanding. You either get access to all public repos, or all public/private repos.

If somebody knows a way to make more limited permission requests, please let me know! I'd be more than happy to make that more granular.

https://developer.github.com/v3/oauth/#scopes

Re: Flowhub is now in Public Beta

#7

Post by mikeryan » Wed, May 07, 2014, 4:32 PM UTC

I can not, for the life of me, tell what this is from the website. The video seems like a parody from the HBO's Silicon Valley show. I even clicked through to the app http://app.flowhub.io/ which wants me to log in and then clicked on the "Docs" Button and finally got to this:

Flowhub is a web-based IDE for flow-based programming. It is built on NoFlo.js for both client and server. It can connect to any language or environment that can talk the FBP Network Protocol.

Which is kind of nonsense unless I'm already clear what "flow-based programming" was. Which I wasn't until I google'd that. Maybe its me. It seems if you're going to promote a new tool with for a obscureish programming paradigm you might want to explain the paradigm as well.

Re: Flowhub is now in Public Beta

#8

Post by Morgawr » Wed, May 07, 2014, 4:32 PM UTC

bergie wrote: post #4

Morgawr wrote: post #3

If the website's performance is a promise of the performance of the application, I don't really feel tempted to try it. I'm using the latest Firefox Aurora release and I am getting very sluggish scrolling and slow loading on the main page. I wish this trend of gigantic slide-able pictures and animated transitions would stop. Yes, it feels like I'm browsing through a tablet/phone app, but I'm on a desktop, I'd love to…

Nah, that is related to GSS stylesheets on the site making use of the matrix3d part of CSS. Unfortunately lots of (expecially Linux) 3D drivers are not exactly up to the task. Edit: as for required login, that isn't needed to play with just the examples. Photo booth: http://app.flowhub.io/#example/7804187 Animated clock: http://app.flowhub.io/#example/7135158 Canvas pattern generator: http://app.flowhub.io/#example/1…

I can play 3D videogames with lots of advanced shaders and even develop my own, perform very demanding computations on my 8-core machine and watch HD movies and stream from the web, yet I can't easily view a simple home page from the internet?

Is this the state of technology in 2014?

Re: Flowhub is now in Public Beta

#9

Post by bergie » Wed, May 07, 2014, 4:37 PM UTC

Morgawr wrote: post #8

bergie wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nah, that is related to GSS stylesheets on the site making use of the matrix3d part of CSS. Unfortunately lots of (expecially Linux) 3D drivers are not exactly up to the task. Edit: as for required login, that isn't needed to play with just the examples. Photo booth: http://app.flowhub.io/#example/7804187 Animated clock: http://app.flowhub.io/#example/7135158 Canvas pattern generator: http://app.flowhub.io/#example/1…

I can play 3D videogames with lots of advanced shaders and even develop my own, perform very demanding computations on my 8-core machine and watch HD movies and stream from the web, yet I can't easily view a simple home page from the internet? Is this the state of technology in 2014?

Yeah, it is a shame. I'm getting some checkerboarding there too as my Chromebook Pixel can't always keep up with rendering the surfaces when scrolling quickly.

Funnily enough my (a lot slower) Nexus 7 scrolls much better. That is what points me towards 3D drivers.

But anyway, shall we talk about Flowhub itself? ;-)

Re: Flowhub is now in Public Beta

#10

Post by Mithaldu » Wed, May 07, 2014, 4:38 PM UTC

In Opera 12 i get only a black page on which i can scroll down a bit to more black.