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A Darktable fork minus the bloat plus some design vision.

13 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 1 story, 12 comments · first 2023-11-23 · latest 2026-07-29

Mentions per year 13 mentions · busiest year 2023 (6)
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  1. …steep. Some ex-maintainers hated the direction of Darktable and thus made their own fork, namely https://github.com/aurelienpierreeng/ansel
    comment by thatxliner · 2026-07-29 · in Darktable
  2. …interesting to see a bunch of people stop developing features and fix bugs straight for 4 years. https://github.com/aurelienpierreeng/ansel/issues
    comment by actionfromafar · 2026-07-29 · in Darktable
  3. https://github.com/aurelienpierreeng/ansel
    comment by actionfromafar · 2026-07-29 · in Darktable
  4. https://github.com/aurelienpierreeng/ansel there's also a fork to play with
  5. …Somebody forked it and was trying to do just that; I don't know the status of that project. https://github.com/aurelienpierreeng/ansel
  6. Since no one mentioned it yet. There is a darktable fork called ansel https://github.com/aurelienpierreeng/ansel that tries to remove bloat and make darktable more user friendly. It's rather opinionated and done by Aurélien Pierre. For…
    comment by BlackLotus89 · 2024-12-31 · in Darktable 5.0.0
  7. …tps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38390914 I am only familiar with his YouTube, and then this topic. https://github.com/aurelienpierreeng/ansel Here are his examples. It seems 1:1 compatible when I switched.
    comment by graphe · 2024-02-19 · in Non-code contributions to open source
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    Ansel: A darktable fork minus the bloat plus some design vision
    story by dp-hackernews · 2023-12-26 · 1 comment
  9. …are the recently merged pull requests from the software which is posted about in the blog post: https://github.com/aurelienpierreeng/ansel/pulls?q=is%3Apr+i... On the first page, I see about five authors offering PR's over the course of…
  10. …And even if it did, it would probably not be stable enough to use for anything productively. [0] https://github.com/aurelienpierreeng/ansel#os-support
    comment by flogoe · 2023-11-24 · in Ansel
  11. wow, that README is bitter https://github.com/aurelienpierreeng/ansel
    comment by fs111 · 2023-11-24 · in Ansel
  12. …Mac OS is anyway not playing nice with Open-Source, having deprecated OpenCL and all. Source: https://github.com/aurelienpierreeng/ansel/blob/master/READM...
    comment by still_grokking · 2023-11-24 · in Ansel
  13. …he hasn't made a github Release since December) and `s/darktable/ansel/g`. src = fetchgit { url = "https://github.com/aurelienpierreeng/ansel.git"; rev = "f7669af89a71882ebad15982d698b8df7e6c6ce8"; sha256 =…
    comment by nurple · 2023-11-23 · in Ansel