Fuck yeah!

It’s pretty amazing isn’t it?! There’s no way that I would have had the time and patience set up a server without it.

Thanks! Looks like a really interesting app as well.

Do you know if hugo blogs can federate?

Peachy. Sounds like there’s nothing to worry about then (from a user POV).

It’s bad because it’s full-featured?

I find it great and in fact I prefer some things to photoshop, like the default keyboard shortcuts, saves as a project file, better filters, amazing plugins, full control over preferences and scriptability. I also prefer the foreground select tool and unified transform tool. There are a few things that PS does better though, like its warp tool and custom print settings, plus obviously nondestructive editing (coming in next GIMP release). People shit on GIMP way more than it deserves. I put it down to a) sunk costs in learning Photoshop b) slow development in the past and c) groupthink/fashionable.

If you’re doing serious printing you need to convert to the printer profile before printing anyway.

I find the UI completely fine. But I think a lot of people expect it to be a perfect and direct clone of photoshop that you don’t have to pay for, rather than its own piece of software and are consequently upset when they have to learn how to use it. People forget that they had to learn how to use photoshop as well.

Like you, I’ve asked people to give a specific example of something that is clearly bad about GIMP and either don’t get a proper answer, or they name something from an ancient version.

I’ve installed it from F-droid but still. Fuck google. They really do need breaking up.

I heavily rely on Syncthing. Does anyone know what the outlook is for Syncthing-fork, or what the likelihood is of someone taking on maintenance of this version?

Yeah, Scribus has come up a lot when I’ve been looking into FOSS & Linux printing workflows. I will give it a proper look! Thanks :)

From what I’ve experienced of Krita it is absolutely lovely for drawing and I know a lot of people really enjoy using it for general graphic design too. I think it might still be a bit too complex for the sort of people and uses I have in mind though. I think what they need is: Pick a page size, make a box in a very basic and visually obvious way, type in the box. Make another box in a very visually obvious way, put a picture in the box which automatically scales. Move boxes around.

Of course this is what GIMP and Krita do, but because they incorporate so much control and extra functionality there are also a lot of things that can ‘go wrong’ for a novice without them knowing why. I’m actually wondering whether Libreoffice Draw or even Writer might be the best option! I’m not aware that they have any image manipulation tools though…

By the way; which messaging platforms, protocols or ‘services’ are currently supported by Pidgin? I haven’t looked at it in a while.

Was the plugin open source?

Edit: looks like it wasn’t and the incident has prompted more more transparency. Good stuff.

Awesome! I’m super excited about 3.0 :D

100%

Very helpful contribution - thanks 🙏

More people should know about F-droid.

WordPress is good in this respect because a) RSS and b) Activitypub (and therefore fediverse) integration.

I really love the vibe of the arts scene here on the fediverse, especially seen through Pixelfed.

Reuters is pretty boring.