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57 pointsamelius21 comments

Seems like they have the code. Now they need a Framadesigner to make the things look framagood.

This reminds me of something I heard about restaurants not too long ago (paraphrased):

> Avoid restaurants with too many things on the menu. It means the cooking staff doesn't focus on quality, instead opting to offer many choices to appease as many customers as possible.

If you heed that advice you miss out on the experience of a diner, which is fine if all you want is upscale food.

Isn't "the experience of a diner" just greasy food cooked from frozen ingredients and average service?

The thing I love most about a diner is they poor you coffee while handing you the menu.

Aha, this restaurant analogy must be why Amazon never took off for retail.

Your snarky comment misapplies the analogy. Amazon doesn't produce the things sold on its marketplace.

and not fresh to order

I really dislike how it is just relabeled projects from others.

From what I'm seeing, they don't relabel them. What they do is host the open source project "Foo" so that you don't have to figure out how to host it yourself and they name that hosting service "FramaBar". But "Foo" is always there under the heading of "FramaBar", to explain that "FramaBar" is really "Foo".

I also find all the social media links at the bottom (including Facebook) funny / ironic considering the message being delivered.

Yeah, solve centralization by more centralization.

Also: one reason people use Google is that their services are in one place, users don't have to keep track of n amount of sites, it's all there.

P.S. I don't like Google.

Isn't this a website for self-hosted alternatives to Google services?

Good intention, bad execution.

Although we have deep respect for many languages, HN is an English-language site, so this is off topic here.

Are we looking at different things here? When I click through, I get a page in English.

Moi, je vois français.

They must have some locale detection that's misfiring here. I also see English.

Alright, I've restored the title and removed the moderation penalty.

could you get some sort of network view and post your request headers?

especially Accept-Language.

That kind of thing has proven really hard to get working in the general case.

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