MediaGoblin 0.7.0 "Time Traveler's Delight" Released

paroneayea (642895) writes "The GNU MediaGoblin folks have put out another release of their free software media hosting platform, dubbed 0.7.0: Time Traveler's Delight. The new release moves closer to federation by including a new upload API based on the Pump API, a new theme labeled "Sandy 70s Speedboat", metadata features, bulk upload, a more responsive design, and many other fixes and improvements. This is the first release since the recent crowdfunding campaign run with the FSF which was used to bring on a full time developer to focus on federation, among other things."

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Because the summary won't tell you

[guruevi]

MediaGoblin is a free software media publishing platform that anyone can run. You can think of it as a decentralized alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud, etc.

Is this spam?

[NoImNotNineVolt]

The last time this paroneayea fellow posted a comment on slashdot was Sunday February 10, 2013.

Since then, it's been nothing but a bunch of story submissions, mostly about MediaGoblin. I wouldn't consider paroneayea to be a member of the slashdot community, and the singleminded focus on MediaGoblin suggests some undisclosed relationship with MediaGoblin.

Re:Great! !

[i kan reed]

For once, the summary actually includes a clear description of the open source product that was updated, it's a "free software media hosting platform".

And if you can't guess at the primary functions from that description, they also helpfully link the product's home page for more information.

I bitch about these sorts of summaries all the time, but this one is practically the gold standard for doing it right.

What's MediaGoblin? Do we care?

[Animats]

The Slashdot article doesn't tell me what MediaGoblin does, or what it's for. Nether does the MediaGoblin site. The documentation, in typical Gnu syle, starts out with "how to participate" and continues with installation instructions.

It's sort of like Wordpress, but with different features and support for streaming media. There's a list of sites that use it. Of the public sites listed, all but one are demos of MediaGoblin. The first site on the list that isn't a a demo and works is this set of baby pictures. There's one site that lets you upload stuff. It's a collection of uploaded pictures with no organization.

This seems to be a publishing system for people with nothing to say.

Re:What's MediaGoblin? Do we care?

[theshowmecanuck]

The very first thing you need to do is describe on the front page of your Website what your project is

In non-technical terms. Everyday language an average computer user can understand, free of jargon. More than one or two sentences, with pictures. Think extra long user story written by an end user who is going to use the output, not the one installing it. You can have as many other web pages you wish to get esoteric with.