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GNU Media Goblin 0.3.0 Released

Posted by Unknown on from the zuckerburg-is-goblin-food dept.

A mere year since the Mediagoblin photo/video sharing project was started, the project has hit version 0.3.0. Release highlights include: a rewrite of the database from MongoDB to SQL (via SQLAlchemy, making it much easier to install), audio support (using the HTML5 <audio> tag), a first take on a mobile interface, and smarter video buffering. Not content to sit idle, the developers are starting work on Salmon protocol support to federate with software like Diaspora in the next release.

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  1. Bad move by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    MongoDB is webscale.

    1. Re:Bad move by navyjeff · · Score: 4, Funny

      For those who haven't seen it.

  2. AND? by who_stole_my_kidneys · · Score: 3, Insightful

    are we advertising every product that has a point release on /. now?

  3. Diaspora by vlm · · Score: 3, Funny

    Diaspora... theres a name I haven't heard recently. I checked the github and its certainly alive and kicking. Do many /.ers use Diaspora and could therefore use the Goblin?

    I wondered about the license and had to LOL at the commit comment:

            GNU-AGPL-3.0 2 years ago added license to every single goddamn file. also, put one in the root [Daniel Vincent Grippi]

    Yes, that answers the licensing question quite firmly

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    1. Re:Diaspora by vlm · · Score: 5, Informative

      The funny part is RoR has recently (well, recent YEARS) gone thru the growing pains C++ suffered thru maybe a decade or so ago.
      C++ used to be exactly the same way, you upgrade gcc/g++ and suddenly nothing compiles anymore.
      I think you're pretty much past that with RoR so its safe?

      I think they were also trying to make a political point about scalability. The point of the diaspora is not to centralize, not to scale. There were people who Just Didn't Get It about diasporas goals complaining about RoR "How you gonna scale one RoR site to over 500 million users" etc. Thats, um, kind of the point. Shouldn't have more than a household or so per server. Not enough people per server that the admin could make serious dough selling the private info of people he doesn't care about but are on his server anyway. A self correcting privacy policy, sorta, via dispersal.

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  4. Site's Down by windcask · · Score: 2

    I know Slashdot is a force in webtraffic, but did we just overwhelm their site?

    1. Re:Site's Down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      It's they fault, they moved from MongoDB to SQL, which isn't webscale.

    2. Re:Site's Down by paroneayea · · Score: 2

      It's not totally down but super slow. I guess that'll teach me to include all those high resolution .png files in our release notes. :)

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  5. Re:Vanity Site? by Aleksej · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://issues.mediagoblin.org/ticket/109

  6. Fantastic by jon3k · · Score: 4, Funny

    Another brilliantly named piece of software. Now I use Linux and Gimp and the Media Goblin. I'm sure my parents are very proud.

    1. Re:Fantastic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Say what you want, but it's a better name than Media Dildo.

  7. Try it out! by jwandborg · · Score: 2

    Currently the MediaGoblin wiki is down, which is the residence for a list of live instances. AFAIK there are two instances running with open registration at the moment: http://gobblin.se/ and http://goblinartists.net./

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