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I really like the spirit of this, and I hate to be the gnu in the room, but the only thing holding this back is that it's centralised. Again, I totally get how

I really like the spirit of this, and I hate to be the gnu in the room, but the only thing holding this back is that it's centralised. Again, I totally get how that might sound stupid. "How can we have nice things if we always need to solve the decentralisation problem first?", is one of a billion reasonable responses to my comment, but I'm just a guy who has gotten his heart broken before by the likes of Geocities, which they reference directly in the Overview video. I trust FogCreek a lot more than I ever trusted Yahoo!, but I still never stray too far from the sidewalk anymore.

jc4p 10y ago
Just FYI while it is definitely centralized, and you are correctly tensing up at the sight of that, here are the "Advanced" options you get when managing a project: http://i.imgur.com/ohDUnKI.png http://i.imgur.com/ohDUnKI.png You can import any code from a Github repository you have, or export the project you're working on to a Github repository, or download a .tgz of the entire thing. Anil's opinions on "the web we lost"[0] fit into the ethos of Fog Creek and co well, I think. [0] http://anildash.com/2012/12/the-web-we-lost.html http://anildash.com/2012/12/the-web-we-lost.html
ProAm 10y ago
I think its a great idea by still cant get past the new latest name for it. HyperDev was geared toward the technical crowd, But GoMix??? It speaks to no one...
- carbocation 10y ago
  The name reminded me of a derogatory term for patients. Or a Go library called "mix". Those reservations aside, it does seem descriptive of what the service actually does. Still, it lacks the charm of "StackOverflow," or the uniqueness of "Trello."
kowdermeister 10y ago
What's wrong with being centralized? It's just a prototyping platform. I doubt anyone would build a production app on this. I recently used it to play with websockets and being centralized was the main reason it worked so well.
- arkitaip 10y ago
  I was hoping it would be for production apps...
- pdkl95 10y ago
  In software, unfortunately, the prototype often is the production app.
- svantana 10y ago
  Exactly this. It's like saying shadertoy is bad because it's centralized. When in reality it doesn't matter because everyone is going to lift their code out to their production env when they're done experimenting.
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- mstade 10y ago
  I think the OP's concerns with centralization is that over time this might become a great collection of fun/useful/interesting/<insert adjective here> sites, just like geocities, but because it is centralized it can all irrevocably just go away one day at the whim of the controlling company. Just like geocities.
anildash 10y ago
That's a fair concern. There are two paths I think we'll offer to address the issue. First, the code you're running is just totally standard Node.js, and we've got easy tools for taking what you make and running it anywhere else, if you want. Second, we'll be building more reasons that you'd want to stay in the Gomix community — features that give you benefit from being in a network. In some ways it's similar to Stack Overflow, in that everybody owns what they contribute, but having a place to do so benefits everyone.
WhitneyLand 10y ago
I don't see how centralization is a big concern in this case. One of the fundamental features is that you can take the code anytime and hoist it up anywhere you please. If anything centralization in this case just greases the skids to running quickly without any lock-in.
adamryman 10y ago
This comment made me laugh a lot. So I made this: http://i.imgur.com/OJ3ZgDD.jpg http://i.imgur.com/OJ3ZgDD.jpg

jc4p 10y ago

Just FYI while it is definitely centralized, and you are correctly tensing up at the sight of that, here are the "Advanced" options you get when managing a project: http://i.imgur.com/ohDUnKI.png http://i.imgur.com/ohDUnKI.png You can import any code from a Github repository you have, or export the project you're working on to a Github repository, or download a .tgz of the entire thing. Anil's opinions on "the web we lost"[0] fit into the ethos of Fog Creek and co well, I think. [0] http://anildash.com/2012/12/the-web-we-lost.html http://anildash.com/2012/12/the-web-we-lost.html

ProAm 10y ago

I think its a great idea by still cant get past the new latest name for it. HyperDev was geared toward the technical crowd, But GoMix??? It speaks to no one...

carbocation 10y ago
The name reminded me of a derogatory term for patients. Or a Go library called "mix". Those reservations aside, it does seem descriptive of what the service actually does. Still, it lacks the charm of "StackOverflow," or the uniqueness of "Trello."

kowdermeister 10y ago

What's wrong with being centralized? It's just a prototyping platform. I doubt anyone would build a production app on this. I recently used it to play with websockets and being centralized was the main reason it worked so well.

arkitaip 10y ago
I was hoping it would be for production apps...
pdkl95 10y ago
In software, unfortunately, the prototype often is the production app.
svantana 10y ago
Exactly this. It's like saying shadertoy is bad because it's centralized. When in reality it doesn't matter because everyone is going to lift their code out to their production env when they're done experimenting.
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mstade 10y ago
I think the OP's concerns with centralization is that over time this might become a great collection of fun/useful/interesting/<insert adjective here> sites, just like geocities, but because it is centralized it can all irrevocably just go away one day at the whim of the controlling company. Just like geocities.

anildash 10y ago

That's a fair concern. There are two paths I think we'll offer to address the issue. First, the code you're running is just totally standard Node.js, and we've got easy tools for taking what you make and running it anywhere else, if you want. Second, we'll be building more reasons that you'd want to stay in the Gomix community — features that give you benefit from being in a network. In some ways it's similar to Stack Overflow, in that everybody owns what they contribute, but having a place to do so benefits everyone.

WhitneyLand 10y ago

I don't see how centralization is a big concern in this case. One of the fundamental features is that you can take the code anytime and hoist it up anywhere you please. If anything centralization in this case just greases the skids to running quickly without any lock-in.

adamryman 10y ago

This comment made me laugh a lot. So I made this: http://i.imgur.com/OJ3ZgDD.jpg http://i.imgur.com/OJ3ZgDD.jpg