Apache Guacamole 1.1.0
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Apache Guacamole 1.1.0
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Re: Apache Guacamole 1.1.0
#2The antithesis of a good landing page.
I'd never heard of it before. What does Apache Guacamole actually do? Is it of interest to me? I click...
Nothing on the home page immediately tells me. I note HTML5 and there is something going on with a client and I guess a server? I scroll down the page. Literally, nothing telling me how Guacamole might be of interest to me, but I notice a mention to RDP - hmmm, that might be a clue, but it might not be.
I go up to docs. FAQ? OK, that might help. I click. Nope. Nothing. I scroll through the first five or six questions and I'm none the wiser.
I go back to the docs and notice the user manual. Surely that must tell me? I click.
Right, which section might tell me? Introduction? I click.
Several paragraphs in:
> Guacamole is an HTML5 web application that provides access to desktop environments using remote desktop protocols (such as VNC or RDP). Guacamole is also the project that produces this web application, and provides an API that drives it. This API can be used to power other similar applications or services.
I realise F/LOSS might not feel the need to "market" itself like it were a business, but is it too much to ask that the first thing we see on the home page is a brief description of what the project is, and some of the benefits so a curious chap can decide if it's of interest?
Re: Apache Guacamole 1.1.0
#3The antithesis of a good landing page. I'd never heard of it before. What does Apache Guacamole actually do? Is it of interest to me? I click... Nothing on the home page immediately tells me. I note HTML5 and there is something going on with a client and I guess a server? I scroll down the page. Literally, nothing telling me how Guacamole might be of interest to me, but I notice a mention to RDP - hmmm, that might be…
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Re: Apache Guacamole 1.1.0
#4The antithesis of a good landing page. I'd never heard of it before. What does Apache Guacamole actually do? Is it of interest to me? I click... Nothing on the home page immediately tells me. I note HTML5 and there is something going on with a client and I guess a server? I scroll down the page. Literally, nothing telling me how Guacamole might be of interest to me, but I notice a mention to RDP - hmmm, that might be…
Do you have an example of what they could have written? I agree with you that lots (mostly the corporate and startup) of homepages aren't good in describing the product but this seems like a relatively okay summary to me:
"Apache Guacamole is a clientless remote desktop gateway. It supports standard protocols like VNC, RDP, and SSH.[...]
Thanks to HTML5, once Guacamole is installed on a server, all you need to access your desktops is a web browser."
It's a tool you install on your machine and then you can access said machine via a web browser, no?
Re: Apache Guacamole 1.1.0
#5The antithesis of a good landing page. I'd never heard of it before. What does Apache Guacamole actually do? Is it of interest to me? I click... Nothing on the home page immediately tells me. I note HTML5 and there is something going on with a client and I guess a server? I scroll down the page. Literally, nothing telling me how Guacamole might be of interest to me, but I notice a mention to RDP - hmmm, that might be…
The post links to the 1.1.0 release https://guacamole.apache.org/releases/1.1.0/
IMHO this is not an intended landing page for the project. I touched the title and got to the home page which explains pretty well what the project is about
Maybe they should add an explicit Home link.
Re: Apache Guacamole 1.1.0
#6The antithesis of a good landing page. I'd never heard of it before. What does Apache Guacamole actually do? Is it of interest to me? I click... Nothing on the home page immediately tells me. I note HTML5 and there is something going on with a client and I guess a server? I scroll down the page. Literally, nothing telling me how Guacamole might be of interest to me, but I notice a mention to RDP - hmmm, that might be…
The link on HN is not a landing page.
https://guacamole.apache.org/ - this is and it is very self explanatory to me.
`Apache Guacamole is a clientless remote desktop gateway. It supports standard protocols like VNC, RDP, and SSH.`
Re: Apache Guacamole 1.1.0
#7The antithesis of a good landing page. I'd never heard of it before. What does Apache Guacamole actually do? Is it of interest to me? I click... Nothing on the home page immediately tells me. I note HTML5 and there is something going on with a client and I guess a server? I scroll down the page. Literally, nothing telling me how Guacamole might be of interest to me, but I notice a mention to RDP - hmmm, that might be…
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Re: Apache Guacamole 1.1.0
#8The antithesis of a good landing page. I'd never heard of it before. What does Apache Guacamole actually do? Is it of interest to me? I click... Nothing on the home page immediately tells me. I note HTML5 and there is something going on with a client and I guess a server? I scroll down the page. Literally, nothing telling me how Guacamole might be of interest to me, but I notice a mention to RDP - hmmm, that might be…
It's a release page. If ever in doubt of where you are, look at the URL.
Guacamole is quite well known in the Linux world.
Release page being linked is appropriate given the title.
Re: Apache Guacamole 1.1.0
#9The antithesis of a good landing page. I'd never heard of it before. What does Apache Guacamole actually do? Is it of interest to me? I click... Nothing on the home page immediately tells me. I note HTML5 and there is something going on with a client and I guess a server? I scroll down the page. Literally, nothing telling me how Guacamole might be of interest to me, but I notice a mention to RDP - hmmm, that might be…
> is it too much to ask that the first thing we see on the home page is a brief description of what the project is, and some of the benefits so a curious chap can decide if it's of interest?
It's not too much to ask, especially if you actually look at the home page and not the release notes that's clearly linked here.
Re: Apache Guacamole 1.1.0
#10The antithesis of a good landing page. I'd never heard of it before. What does Apache Guacamole actually do? Is it of interest to me? I click... Nothing on the home page immediately tells me. I note HTML5 and there is something going on with a client and I guess a server? I scroll down the page. Literally, nothing telling me how Guacamole might be of interest to me, but I notice a mention to RDP - hmmm, that might be…
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