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Dropbox wins on UX, which is where FOSS fails almost every time. A quick way to know whether such projects will fail: if they mention anything about the technol
by nillort 15y ago
Dropbox wins on UX, which is where FOSS fails almost every time. A quick way to know whether such projects will fail: if they mention anything about the technologies used. Making it obvious to use and "just work" is what is needed.
Too bad that is actually the hard part.
- burgerbrain 15y agoFor what definition of "fail"? I think it's pretty obvious that this isn't intended, at least in it's current incarnation, to be a dropbox-killer. It doesn't need to pander to the same audience. "dares to mention technologies used" is only a killer for a subset of all possible audiences. For example, knowing that Git is hacked together with C and bash doesn't make it any less useful to me (ie, someone who isn't afraid of computers)
- iFire 15y agoLook at Sparkleshare's website and see what you think?
- icebraining 15y agoThe problem is setting up the Git server. Even if you use Github - and then you have to pay if you don't want your files open to the public - creating the repo, adding the keys, understanding what they have to put in the Address field, etc is still extremely difficult with the knowledge (and patience) of the average person.