What happens with all the comments? Are they migrated as well? It should at least be mentioned somewhere. Obviously, it is harder to set up dynamic content (like comments) for static sites. I've blogged about many solutions to this problem [1].
Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog
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Re: Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog
#122I don't have a blog (medium or anything) so unfortunately I don't have a use for this, but I LOVED the gif. It wasn't an attempt to show "how easy it is to do with one command" but rather a real flow of how it all goes, I appreciate it, well done!
The one of many problems with gifs is that you can't pause or rewind them.
Re: Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog
#123Honest question. Do people still read blog posts these days? I feel like twitter has made me so lazy that I can hardly consume any long content. I hardly even read the articles posted in HN but do go through the comments since they are easily digestible. Is it just me?
I do from time to time. Depends on the authors ability to make it clear in the first paragraphs that the post is worth reading.
In case you're worried about having lost the ability to read longer texts: Find one of those book that you can't put down. A physical book, away from the screens. I used to read a lot as a kid, then stopped. I'm glad I picked it up again. But do start with something easy to read.
Re: Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog
#124I don't have a blog (medium or anything) so unfortunately I don't have a use for this, but I LOVED the gif. It wasn't an attempt to show "how easy it is to do with one command" but rather a real flow of how it all goes, I appreciate it, well done!
The one of many problems with gifs is that you can't pause or rewind them.
That problem could easily be solved by browsers though? Treat an animated gif like an mp4
Re: Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog
#125Great gif. This should be how everyone does readmes.
An 18 MB GIF of some text? No. It's an unfortunate consequence of GitHub still not allowing actual video files. I might not have realized it was an animation if you hadn't said this. It takes forever to load.
If there were only a way to render text in such a way that when clicked would instruct your browser to request and display a resource from another site. :-)
Re: Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog
#126I honestly don't get posts like these. IMHO the main selling point of Medium is not that you can easily set up a blog, there's plenty of platforms that let you do that easily, or great tools like OP's for setting up your own. The point is that there is already a large audience you can reach with your posts, and Medium actively works to distribute your posts to people who would be interested in them. The equivalent he…
The main selling point for Medium for a long time was "cool, minimalist blogging site without all the crap". Now they're not.
I don’t have a blog, but considering Medium and Hugo, but would like to know what happened to them?
Re: Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog
#127I don't have a blog (medium or anything) so unfortunately I don't have a use for this, but I LOVED the gif. It wasn't an attempt to show "how easy it is to do with one command" but rather a real flow of how it all goes, I appreciate it, well done!
While I think the usage of a gif is awesome, I am a huge fan of actually allowing people to see what is happening. The purpose of the gif was to show how it works, but he moved so fast I could barely read anything or follow him.
> he moved so fast I could barely read anything or follow him.
Same here. So
1. I downloaded the gif
2. ffmpeg -i screencast.gif foo.mp4
Re: Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog
#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
I honestly don't get comments like yours. The author of this repo built something to help people move off of medium (where their content is currently stored) to their own blog. This has become progressively more common and people might be putting it off because it takes too long. E.G. the basecamp blog moved in January ( https://m.signalvnoise.com/signal-v-noise-exits-medium/ ). Furthermore, it is super easy to be cr…
> or great tools like OP's for setting up your own I don't see how I was trashing OPs hard work. I'm simply pointing out that there's more that Medium provides than just a way to host a blog. No need to read so much negativity into it.
>> I honestly don't get posts like these.
That's the phrase that caused people to read negativity into your post. You didn't mean it when you were typing but to those reading the phrase has come to mean, "there's something wrong with the {thing}" or even "that {thing} shouldn't be." Could your paragraph have omitted that sentence and conveyed your meaning or is people knowing you don't understand integral to what you were trying to say?
I also appreciate the humor of @jppope using that same sentence as the lead for his/her comment.
Re: Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog
#129Smart, catching on the "hate Medium & I'm leaving it" trend
Re: Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog
#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
The one of many problems with gifs is that you can't pause or rewind them.
That problem could easily be solved by browsers though? Treat an animated gif like an mp4
Or just skip the GIF and create an MP4 file? No need to try and shoehorn GIF into what MP4 can do perfectly well.