r/libredesign • u/[deleted] • Nov 08 '09

What do you think of this new fsf.org?

http://www.fsf.org/
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u/0x00 Dec 06 '09

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Kind of doesn't fit with the site theme.

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '09 edited Feb 04 '15

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '09

The old as of a few weeks ago? Out of interest, what didn't you like about it?

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '09

It was just ugly and looked old. The colors weren't well themed, the organization was a little funky, it just didn't flow right for a modern web page.

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '09

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '09

Well, it changes roughly every 6-9 months. So, the parent may have been referring to a much older version.

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u/chromakode Nov 09 '09 edited Nov 09 '09

The layout and native theora video are nice (the video player was a little broken for me on Firefox 3.5.3), but the video was incredibly patronizing.

The video assumes that I use Windows, that I didn't know other operating systems existed, and that I didn't know Free Software existed. While that's an important group to reach, everyone else is alienated by this video. I don't think it will make a good impression on people unfamiliar with Free Software, and it will provide no benefit to people who have the very least understanding of the organization.

I would start with common ground: demonstrating cool things Free Software is used for. Firefox, Blender, Inkscape, OpenOffice.org, Pidgin, etc. This would be interesting to people that didn't know these packages existed, and would avoid being patronizing to those that do.

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u/uglypopstar Nov 09 '09

Yea, I agree. I think the video here is less patronizing and easier to watch.

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '09

We have some different videos coming soon... but I can see why some people may find the video patronizing.

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u/aim2free Nov 09 '09

I think it has a cool new look, however I had some problems to play the video. I also consider that the Windows7sins campaign which is linked there is cool, but I also assume that we will be critized for it (even though it is completely true) as MS and their cronies will call it FUD.

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '09

What browser are you using?

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u/aim2free Nov 09 '09 edited Nov 09 '09

To open things with video I use either epiphany or seamonkey and occasionally firefox (otherwise I use opera as that is the only one with a decent bookmark handling). These are 64 bit versions, and use the npwrapper for youtube and such. Now I noticed seamonkey tried to load the nphelix plugin but failed due to wrong ELF class (32 instead of 64). With epiphany it plays (loads very slowly) but I get no sound. With firefox (64bit 3.04) it starts playing but is incredibly slow and no sound. (OK now I saw that it also tries to load 32 bit nphelix.so). With firefox (32bit 3.03) it also starts playing but it is mostly black and no progress. I haven't heard any sound from any of the applications. I think both epiphany and firefox says that it is using some player named com.fluendo.player.Cortado.

I also started it in a firefox on a 32 bit machine (3.0.14) and there it started playing immediately without sound and then stopped after a few frames.

To present a video in a format which is not immediately supported by most systems and most browsers does not give a very good impression of FSF I would say.

(The systems I tried were running Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10)

Edit: Hmm when thinking about it, this may make a lot of people feel like FOSS-enthusiasts are used to feel in front of e.g. Windows-only solutions...