First I got the feeling because of how they store things on disk and try to get all models rehosted in their own closed library.
Second time I got the feeling is when it's not obvious at all about what their motives are, and that it's a for-profit venture.
Third time is trying to discuss things in their Discord and the moderators there constantly shut down a lot of conversation citing "Misinformation" and rewrites your messages. You can ask a honest question, it gets deleted and you get blocked for a day.
Just today I asked why the R1 models they're shipping that are the distilled ones, doesn't have "distilled" in the name, or even any way of knowing which tag is which model, and got the answer "if you don't like how things are done on Ollama, you can run your own object registry" which doesn't exactly inspire confidence.
Another thing I noticed after a while is that there are bunch of people with zero knowledge of terminals that want to run Ollama, even though Ollama is a project for developers (since you do need to know how to run a terminal). Just making the messaging clearer would help a lot in this regarding, but somehow the Ollama team thinks thats gatekeeping and it's better to teach people basic terminal operations.
For what it's worth, HuggingFace provides documentation on how you can run any GGUF model inside Ollama[0]. You're not locked into their closed library or have to wait for them to add new models.
Granted, they could be a lot more helpful in providing information on how you do this. But this feature exists, at least.
Ollama team's response (verbatim) when asking what they think of the comments about Ollama in this HN submission: "Who cares? It's the internet... everybody has an opinion... and they're usually bad". Not exactly the response you'd expect from people who should ideally learn from what others think (correct or not) about your project.
Not parent, but same feeling.
First I got the feeling because of how they store things on disk and try to get all models rehosted in their own closed library.
Second time I got the feeling is when it's not obvious at all about what their motives are, and that it's a for-profit venture.
Third time is trying to discuss things in their Discord and the moderators there constantly shut down a lot of conversation citing "Misinformation" and rewrites your messages. You can ask a honest question, it gets deleted and you get blocked for a day.
Just today I asked why the R1 models they're shipping that are the distilled ones, doesn't have "distilled" in the name, or even any way of knowing which tag is which model, and got the answer "if you don't like how things are done on Ollama, you can run your own object registry" which doesn't exactly inspire confidence.
Another thing I noticed after a while is that there are bunch of people with zero knowledge of terminals that want to run Ollama, even though Ollama is a project for developers (since you do need to know how to run a terminal). Just making the messaging clearer would help a lot in this regarding, but somehow the Ollama team thinks thats gatekeeping and it's better to teach people basic terminal operations.
For what it's worth, HuggingFace provides documentation on how you can run any GGUF model inside Ollama[0]. You're not locked into their closed library or have to wait for them to add new models.
Granted, they could be a lot more helpful in providing information on how you do this. But this feature exists, at least.
[0] https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/en/ollama
Ollama team's response (verbatim) when asking what they think of the comments about Ollama in this HN submission: "Who cares? It's the internet... everybody has an opinion... and they're usually bad". Not exactly the response you'd expect from people who should ideally learn from what others think (correct or not) about your project.
This is helpful, thank you.