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Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by bachmeier »

gen220 wrote: post #77
bachmeier wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What I want is a Yahoo-style directory for blogs. Blog owners can put their blog in exactly one category. Users can star the blogs they like, similar to GitHub, and identify the low quality click generators/marketing blogs. I personally find Medium to be a horrible way to find content. Maybe it works for new content, if that's what you're after.

The success of search engines prompted Yahoo to ditch its original product (the curation and categorization of the web) in favor of its competitors automated (and thereby game-able) crawl-index-search approaches. Now, decades later, there seems to be a shared yearning for the curated web, perhaps in response to the low signal:noise ratio of search. Isn't it funny, how the world works in cycles? Curated search (domain…

I was probably one of the last users of their original directory. It was my browser homepage until the day they removed it.

I eventually stopped using it because it didn't keep up. These days, search is for many purposes completely useless. If I want to find someone to do work on my house, the last place I'll go is Google. It's truly amazing just how worthless the results are. You'll get results from Michigan and Florida and Oregon all for the same search, in the same town, and claiming to be a local business. I imagine it's a fraud-ridden garbage dump if you actually try to use Google to find businesses to do work for you.

On the topic of blogs - not completely useless, but overrun with shallow, uninformative trash posts by SEO experts. I think Google is more vulnerable now than at any time in the past 20 years.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by masukomi »

HermanMartinus wrote: post #41
SquareWheel wrote: post #33

The comparisons are all to large content management systems. However this seems like a better fit for static site generators. Would it be better to compare to Jekyll, Hugo, etc?

Sure, serving static files will always be the fastest, but this is for people looking for a service like Medium, or Blogger, where there's no need to handle anything locally.

to be clear, you don't _need_ to do anything locally. It's possible to use static blogs without touching your site and there are lots of competing tools out there that will give you a web front end to your static blog.

For example. I use Hugo, with Forestry.io and don't have to touch my filesystem (or even my personal computer) to blog. I just go to a web page like all the CMS blogs.

I'm self-hosting rather than using something like netifly so the setup was a bit more geeky BUT it's totally doable and doesn't have to be tooo geeky.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by Gooblebrai »

notadog wrote: post #67
katktv wrote: post #8

So can I self-host this? The comparisons make no sense if I can't self-host the thing.

From the creator elsewhere in the comments: > You can't self host it, otherwise you'd be better off writing your own basic HTML pages or using a static site generator. You can check out the source code on github though https://github.com/HermanMartinus/bearblog

Looking at the source code, you could self host it making some changes in the code.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by dktoao »

snazz wrote: post #127
diarrhea wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"mb" is not millibar; "mbar" is.

Maybe not officially, but in practice that's how it's used: The unit's official symbol is bar; the earlier symbol b is now deprecated and conflicts with the use of b denoting the unit barn, but it is still encountered, especially as mb (rather than the proper mbar) to denote the millibar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_(unit)

Yeah, in general, there are many, many "unit collisions" that can really only be exactly interpreted from context. I think it would be great if everyone started using bracket notation (or similar) for prefixes. E.g. [k]B [Mi]B This is the convention used in pqm.js and it works really well. this would go a long way toward units that can be accurately read by a computer.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by j1elo »

jedberg wrote: post #188

Things I would like in a blogging platform: * Generate lightweight static website * Good clean default CSS so I don't have to mess with it * Automatically upload website to CDN and trigger expirations as necessary. * Self-hosted * Runs on AWS Lambda or any other Function as a Service equivilient * Has a super lightweight CMS that I can easily use on both desktop and mobile, so if I have ideas I can start writing anyw…

Maybe a static blog (e.g. Hugo), hosted on Netlify and making use of their netlify-cms package?

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by diarrhea »

snazz wrote: post #127
diarrhea wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"mb" is not millibar; "mbar" is.

Maybe not officially, but in practice that's how it's used: The unit's official symbol is bar; the earlier symbol b is now deprecated and conflicts with the use of b denoting the unit barn, but it is still encountered, especially as mb (rather than the proper mbar) to denote the millibar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_(unit)

Pressure measurements/specifications are part of my daily work. I have never seen "b" referring to bar, also not in any of the many American (imperial) papers I have come across. So this is either properly old usage indeed, or very specific to certain regions or industries (like usage of relative v absolute pressure). Or Wikipedia being properly pedantic.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by regynald »

jedberg wrote: post #188

Things I would like in a blogging platform: * Generate lightweight static website * Good clean default CSS so I don't have to mess with it * Automatically upload website to CDN and trigger expirations as necessary. * Self-hosted * Runs on AWS Lambda or any other Function as a Service equivilient * Has a super lightweight CMS that I can easily use on both desktop and mobile, so if I have ideas I can start writing anyw…

https://blot.im/ might be close to what you want. I think it's run on ec2 instances though.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by jedberg »

j1elo wrote: post #195
jedberg wrote: post #188

Things I would like in a blogging platform: * Generate lightweight static website * Good clean default CSS so I don't have to mess with it * Automatically upload website to CDN and trigger expirations as necessary. * Self-hosted * Runs on AWS Lambda or any other Function as a Service equivilient * Has a super lightweight CMS that I can easily use on both desktop and mobile, so if I have ideas I can start writing anyw…

Maybe a static blog (e.g. Hugo), hosted on Netlify and making use of their netlify-cms package?

Netlify is awesome and I love their service, but it's not self hosted. In particular you have to pay lots of money to get logs.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by jedberg »

regynald wrote: post #197
jedberg wrote: post #188

Things I would like in a blogging platform: * Generate lightweight static website * Good clean default CSS so I don't have to mess with it * Automatically upload website to CDN and trigger expirations as necessary. * Self-hosted * Runs on AWS Lambda or any other Function as a Service equivilient * Has a super lightweight CMS that I can easily use on both desktop and mobile, so if I have ideas I can start writing anyw…

https://blot.im/ might be close to what you want. I think it's run on ec2 instances though.

It's not self hosted.
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