Re: [GMG-Devel] What does it do?

[Christopher Allan Webber]

You're right that the website could use improvements.  There's a design
that's got some improvements to it, but it's been hanging in the works
for a bit...

Mike Gran writes:

> Hello,
>
> I've read over your website a couple of times and I don't think
> it really explains what your project does.
>
> It says "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.
>
> Then on the "take the tour" page it says it shares media, does
> comments, and has a clean look.
>
> While I've figured it out now, the following questions weren't
> obvious from the descriptions...
>
> Is thepoint that you give it pictures and it makes webpages with
> comment boxes? How it is different from hosting a blog and
> putting pictures in a blog, then?
>
> How do you give it pictures? Does it look for pictures on your
> computer?
>
> Does it have a standalone webserver in it? or do you have to
> somehow set it up to run in Apache, like you would if you downloaded
> a blogging engine?
>
> Anyway, just FYI that it seems like some remedial information is
> missing.
>
> -Mike
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