Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Show HN: Sora, Personal Publishing Platform

sora.city

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

41–50 of 62 posts

Re: Show HN: Sora, Personal Publishing Platform

#41

Post by cycomanic »

WA wrote: post #37

On first sight, the design looks nice. On second sight, it’s a slow SPA, showing placeholders for way too long. The usability around navigation has the typical buggy SPA feeling: Go here https://topcat.sora.city/found Tap an image, use the back button of the browser and you’re all the way back to the client-side no-cache loading of the profile. Or again, tap an image, try to copy the description. It swipes to the nex…

> On first sight, the design looks nice. On second sight, it’s a slow SPA, showing placeholders for way too long. The usability around navigation has the typical buggy SPA feeling:

Actually I'm on mobile right now and I was impressed how speedy it was.

> Go here https://topcat.sora.city/found

> Tap an image, use the back button of the browser and you’re all the way back to the client-side no-cache loading of the profile.

> Or again, tap an image, try to copy the description. It swipes to the next image or something (on mobile). Very weird usability.

Works for me just fine (maybe been fixed in the meantime?) on Firefox on android.

> Or tap one of the last images, close it with the close button and Safari will scroll all the way to the top again.

Again no problem here on Firefox for android.

> Imho, the SSR experience of most personal blogs is quite important if you want to compete with other platforms, because broken back buttons and obnoxius content loading is what you get from places like Medium or LinkedIn. A SPA is totally the wrong way to go here I think.

> In short: it looks nice but feels shitty.

I don't agree compared to many other offerings this feels quite snappy IMO.

Re: Show HN: Sora, Personal Publishing Platform

#42

Post by scrollaway »

lrvick wrote: post #20
chrispuska wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

0: We're going to support ActivityPub at some point this year. Also monitoring all the other protocols popped up recently. 1: Won't sell any data, ever. Bootstrapped for now, user funded once we scaled up. We might temporary suspend signups at a point to ensure uninterrupted service. 2a: Good callout, will update the site with future plans! 2b: We're actively working on making content exportable, so you'll be able to…

> 1: Won't sell any data, ever. Until someone buys the company, and the new owner sells the data. We have all heard this before.

What’s the point of this post? The GP asked if they plan to sell user data, they respond no. Did you want them to just not respond? What?

Re: Show HN: Sora, Personal Publishing Platform

#43

Post by melx »

Nice one! However I'm not trying/paying for a service that its own terms and conditions look like unfinished business. Sora is "a company"... Hmm. No basic details who's behind it. Then there's this "Our servers are located in." In where exactly? Lots of questions probably.

Re: Show HN: Sora, Personal Publishing Platform

#44

Post by defanor »

> Restricted.

> Sora isn't available in Belarus, Hungary and Russia.

Why these countries in particular? I guess it's about having oppressive/authoritarian regimes and being in Europe, but why to restrict it that way?

Edit: or perhaps it's because of the war, but Hungary doesn't seem to be involved as much. Though maybe I missed something there.

Re: Show HN: Sora, Personal Publishing Platform

#45

Post by LoganDark »

melx wrote: post #43

Nice one! However I'm not trying/paying for a service that its own terms and conditions look like unfinished business. Sora is "a company"... Hmm. No basic details who's behind it. Then there's this "Our servers are located in." In where exactly? Lots of questions probably.

> "Our servers are located in." In where exactly?

This is actually hilarious though. Terrible for a ToS, but hilarious.

Re: Show HN: Sora, Personal Publishing Platform

#46

Post by LoganDark »

cycomanic wrote: post #41
WA wrote: post #37

On first sight, the design looks nice. On second sight, it’s a slow SPA, showing placeholders for way too long. The usability around navigation has the typical buggy SPA feeling: Go here https://topcat.sora.city/found Tap an image, use the back button of the browser and you’re all the way back to the client-side no-cache loading of the profile. Or again, tap an image, try to copy the description. It swipes to the nex…

> On first sight, the design looks nice. On second sight, it’s a slow SPA, showing placeholders for way too long. The usability around navigation has the typical buggy SPA feeling: Actually I'm on mobile right now and I was impressed how speedy it was. > Go here https://topcat.sora.city/found > Tap an image, use the back button of the browser and you’re all the way back to the client-side no-cache loading of the prof…

"works on my machine" doesn't mean the issue doesn't exist

Re: Show HN: Sora, Personal Publishing Platform

#47

Post by LoganDark »

defanor wrote: post #44

> Restricted. > Sora isn't available in Belarus, Hungary and Russia. Why these countries in particular? I guess it's about having oppressive/authoritarian regimes and being in Europe, but why to restrict it that way? Edit: or perhaps it's because of the war, but Hungary doesn't seem to be involved as much. Though maybe I missed something there.

Wait, is this just a fad now? People just implementing security measures to specifically deny access from those countries, even for completely innocent services?

Re: Show HN: Sora, Personal Publishing Platform

#48

Post by LoganDark »

diceduckmonk wrote: post #36
chrispuska wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, the iOS app should be available in the App Store sometime next week! Drop an email to feedback@sora.city and I'll send a TestFlight invite.

Also curious about your tech choices. Why did you opt for Supabase instead of headless CMS like Netlify? Why did you opt for Atomic CSS instead of Tailwind?

> Why did you opt for Atomic CSS instead of Tailwind?

I've been using Tailwind since 2019, and I would recommend Tailwind to anyone, but I still don't understand why people always try to get others to use it over something else. Is something wrong with Atomic CSS?

Re: Show HN: Sora, Personal Publishing Platform

#49

Post by defanor »

LoganDark wrote: post #47
defanor wrote: post #44

> Restricted. > Sora isn't available in Belarus, Hungary and Russia. Why these countries in particular? I guess it's about having oppressive/authoritarian regimes and being in Europe, but why to restrict it that way? Edit: or perhaps it's because of the war, but Hungary doesn't seem to be involved as much. Though maybe I missed something there.

Wait, is this just a fad now? People just implementing security measures to specifically deny access from those countries, even for completely innocent services?

Seems to be so: in the past year I encountered notably more seemingly geoip-caused HTTP 403 errors than previously, often with CloudFront or Cloudflare, but usually they don't provide a list of blacklisted countries like that. It's rather surprising to see Hungary there, but not NK and Iran, assuming it's just political (and not a response to some attacks, or has to do with some legal issues).

Re: Show HN: Sora, Personal Publishing Platform

#50

Post by lrvick »

scrollaway wrote: post #42
lrvick wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 1: Won't sell any data, ever. Until someone buys the company, and the new owner sells the data. We have all heard this before.

What’s the point of this post? The GP asked if they plan to sell user data, they respond no. Did you want them to just not respond? What?

I would hope they would respond with how they can -prove- data can never be sold, by having accountable cryptography, etc.
Post reply on HN