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GNU MediaGoblin – A decentralized alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud

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Re: GNU MediaGoblin – A decentralized alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud

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Post by TylerE »

Reminds 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.

Re: GNU MediaGoblin – A decentralized alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud

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Post by CharlesW »

TylerE wrote: post #2

Reminds 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.

Your comment reminds me of the line from Meet the Feebles: "No. That's lousy."

I'm not the creator, but perhaps you could offer 1 (or 2!) actionable critiques? For example, you mentioned the navigation path. Where did you get stuck?

Re: GNU MediaGoblin – A decentralized alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud

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Post by chriswarbo »

TylerE wrote: post #2

Reminds 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.

Re: GNU MediaGoblin – A decentralized alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud

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Post by TylerE »

chriswarbo wrote: post #4
TylerE wrote: post #2

Reminds 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.

What exactly is the functionality though? They don't make it obvious - it looks like any of 1,000 generic photo sharing sites. It doesn't make any sort of compelling value proposition. What makes it so special to be worthy of being a GNU project?

Re: GNU MediaGoblin – A decentralized alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud

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Post by qnrq »

TylerE wrote: post #2

Reminds 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.

So it's an excellent opportunity for up and coming designers to contribute to a promising open source project.

Re: GNU MediaGoblin – A decentralized alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud

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Post by synctext »

qnrq wrote: post #6
TylerE wrote: post #2

Reminds 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.

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.

Re: GNU MediaGoblin – A decentralized alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud

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Post by diminish »

I 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 talk at Pycon US. http://pyvideo.org/video/725/40-media-goblin-the-road-to-fed...

Edit2: Everyone may run their own instances and The 'federation' idea suggests to me that independent instances will be able to enable social interactions. http://pyvideo.org/video/725/40-mediagoblin-the-road-to-fede.... See also this checklist. http://mediagoblin.org/news/mediagoblin-1.0-checklist.html

Re: GNU MediaGoblin – A decentralized alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud

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Post by amirouche »

This is great for any one like me that believe/think in GNU goals that such a project exists and is viable alternative to private systems. Also it's good opportunity for Python people to contribute to GNU. Moreover, MediaGoblin is the only project in this vein I know of, there's not much free 2.0 services available in Python.
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