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by mikeryan 4433 days ago
I can not, for the life of me, tell what this is from the website. The video seems like a parody from the HBO's Silicon Valley show. I even clicked through to the app http://app.flowhub.io/ which wants me to log in and then clicked on the "Docs" Button and finally got to this:

Flowhub is a web-based IDE for flow-based programming. It is built on NoFlo.js for both client and server. It can connect to any language or environment that can talk the FBP Network Protocol.

Which is kind of nonsense unless I'm already clear what "flow-based programming" was. Which I wasn't until I google'd that. Maybe its me. It seems if you're going to promote a new tool with for a obscureish programming paradigm you might want to explain the paradigm as well.
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gtaylor 4433 days ago
> I can not, for the life of me, tell what this is from the website.

This makes me feel a little better. I couldn't tell what this is, either.

I scrolled all the way down and eventually found a FAQ link that helps: http://flowhub.io/documentation/flowhub-faq/

May be worth putting that somewhere more prominent.

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Goopplesoft 4433 days ago
Similar. I watched the video, read all the copy too, which I usually wouldn't do. Sucks these things are hard to fix on announcement day...
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bergie 4433 days ago
Would this help too? http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/noflo-kickstarter-launch/ (from back when it was still called NoFlo UI)
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eric_cc 4433 days ago
You're not the only one who had no clue. I still don't. I watched the video. I made this comment. And I'm not wasting another second of my time on flowhub..
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jonahx 4433 days ago
You're not alone. Even the wikipedia page on flow-based programming doesn't help me much.

I'd love to see something like todomvc implemented with this, to give it some grounding.

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mov 4433 days ago
An implementation of TodoMVC is really a good idea! There is already a (re)implementation of Jekyll using NoFlo that you might find interesting: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/noflo-jekyll/
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xanderstrike 4433 days ago
Not to mention the app itself seems very broken. I think they're in much to early a stage to launch a public "beta."
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bergie 4433 days ago
We built on Polymer, so that imposes quite strict browser requirements. See http://flowhub.io/documentation/flowhub-faq/#browser-require...

However, if you're having one of the supported browsers and still have problems, we'd love a ticket at https://github.com/noflo/noflo-ui/issues

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