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As long as they're hosted somewhere on the internet, you can add images with regular Markdown. Built-in support for photo management is in the pipeline though!

Yep, that's exactly it! (Creator here.) Would also note it works pretty well for microblogging -- here's an example (with some custom styling)[0]. Small posts with a single paragra…

Yes, the project is still alive and well! It also powers our very alive commercial service, Write.as, which has most of my attention. The open source project is just moving at a on…

You might like what we've built with Write.as [0]. It's Markdown-based, but without all the publishing overhead of a static site generator. There are a lot of other great small pla…

Allowing alternative payment systems. This would be absolutely huge for small devs, as you no longer have to pay the ridiculous 15%-30% rent to Apple.

I appreciate the feedback. Our setup does require some basic sysadmin knowledge... But did you try installing from source or one of our binaries [0]? What kind of federation issues…

Hey, really sorry this happened to you, we obviously dropped the ball there. If this still needs to be resolved, can you email me again: matt [at] write.as with your username, or a…

Sounds awesome! Would love to be a part of it. I'll reach out soon!

Just curious, which features did you want that were proprietary at the time? The primary reasons for including certain features in Write.as but not in WriteFreely are when they're …

Besides everything else mentioned, you can create an account on our official demo instance here: https://pencil.writefree.ly/invite/NB8Ycb

Hi! I'm the lead developer of WriteFreely -- happy to answer any questions you have! For a little update on where the project is today: we just put out our last update [0] before v…

There isn't a direct way to import from WordPress so far, but there is an open API [0] you could use to move your blog. That's the tack we took for our Hugo import tool [1]: just t…

Write.as - Remote (I'm based in Florida) - Seeking marketer / business developer Write.as is a simple, privacy-friendly blogging platform made for writers. It's focused on doing ju…

Yep, there's no way they'll be widespread, and for the limited places they are used, they'll have a human ready to grab the wheel. Largest users might be trucking companies. I thin…

This is how Mastodon works, unfortunately -- it doesn't pull in old posts. But now that you're following the blogs, you'll start seeing any new posts that come in.

Indeed, this is running on our new Teams [0] infrastructure, so HN is giving us some good real-world testing :) Performance issues should be fixed now. [0] https://write.as/for/tea…

> This is not intended to be a (de)valuation of the software behind the platform and the effort to maintain the platform. That's the rub. If you were running the service, just spea…

Customers find these services valuable enough to pay their prices, and services optimize for that audience. But what would be your ideal price for a personal blog?

Yes, it's especially important when these games are used to educate students. Recently came across this [0] very informative talk that discusses some of the same things. On another…

I don't think it's too much to ask of the general public. Think of WordPress -- free software you can either run yourself or pay a company to run for you. If you don't like a parti…

If you use a static site generator, especially to create a blog, why do you use it? Some reasons I've heard before are: * Pages load faster * Hosting costs are low or free * Can wr…