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Re:GNU MediaGoblin – A decentralized alternative to Flickr, ... by chriswarbo on Thursday August 08, 2013 @10:25AM (#6179075)
"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.

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Re:GNU MediaGoblin – A decentralized alternative to Flickr, ... by TylerE on Thursday August 08, 2013 @10:26AM (#6179086)
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?
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Re:GNU MediaGoblin – A decentralized alternative to Flickr, ... by jfb on Thursday August 08, 2013 @11:07AM (#6179352)
UI is functionality.
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Re:GNU MediaGoblin – A decentralized alternative to Flickr, ... by coldtea on Thursday August 08, 2013 @11:44AM (#6179614)
>You could say the same thing about MS-DOS

And maybe that's why nobody uses it anymore.

If you want to compare, compare to something current. MS DOS was not that amateurish looking for its age and its user base at the time.

(nobody as in "mostly outliers", for you pedants)

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