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It's becoming impossible to "pardon the interruption" with Medium when it happens multiple times a day. For me it's a reflexive response at this point, I don't even remember what they're asking for, my hand just moves to close the thing.
> For me it's a reflexive response at this point [...] Q: Why would one not install NoScript and get rid of these "interruptions" forever?
I'm always glad to see competition in any space - especially anything that can keep the big boys (Medium!) in check. Kudos to you for giving this a shot! Although, while i wish you plenty of luck, the only way you're going to get my money is if/when you think about functions and features supporting things like POSSE or even better yet ActivityPub. The last few years have taught me that I'm not going to spend my money…
What functionality does Able provide for technical bloggers who want to do POSSE? Can users import draft articles from their site's RSS feed, for example? Also, have you given any thought to integrating with the Fediverse by implementing ActivityPub?
We're definitely keen to do both of these things when our time/resources permit. What would be the first step you'd like to see here?
I'm always glad to see competition in any space - especially anything that can keep the big boys (Medium!) in check. Kudos to you for giving this a shot! Although, while i wish you plenty of luck, the only way you're going to get my money is if/when you think about functions and features supporting things like POSSE or even better yet ActivityPub. The last few years have taught me that I'm not going to spend my money…
Thanks for the feedback! We're busy working on RSS imports right now and should have something up in a day or two. We're open to ActivityPub too but this might take a bit longer just because we're building Able in our spare time. Ultimately, we want to create a great place for developers and then charge businesses to advertise their job vacancies to that community. Because we're self-funded we don't have pressure to…
I'm always glad to see competition in any space - especially anything that can keep the big boys (Medium!) in check. Kudos to you for giving this a shot! Although, while i wish you plenty of luck, the only way you're going to get my money is if/when you think about functions and features supporting things like POSSE or even better yet ActivityPub. The last few years have taught me that I'm not going to spend my money…
It sounds like what you want is https://writefreely.org/ ? they have both a hosted option and a self-hostable open source version. The missing part is the discoverability that Medium had and that Able and dev.to are working towards, so I don't think it's totally comparable. Actually, saying that now, I'd love it if it even went one way--so I could choose to post my article on my write freely blog, but also syndicate…
Just roll your own blog already. If there's one thing these services reinforce over and over again - it's that they'll change their terms over time. Own your site. Own your data. Put it all on your own terms. If you need help setting one up (unlikely for this crowd), you can have one made for you for free here. https://StartABlog.com/free-blog
Agree that everyone should have their own site but we just want to create another corner on the web where you can read and write interesting, well presented content and find jobs etc. You're also welcome to cross-post to Able to help build an audience to your blog too. One thing we don't want to do is bait and switch users like other venture funded companies have done recently. We just want to build a good community…
> Firefox gets first-class support and is the primary browser we test in. Wow. I would not have believed to ever read something like this for any service, ever again.
That happens all the time it seems with those who work in a certain other browser. Why? I can’t say for certain, I guess it is because that other browser doesn’t care as muvh about web standards but there might also be some part that has to do with most users of that other browser not caring too much about the web ecosystem.
[0]: I always do that anyway hehe, it is my not-so-secret research tool ;-)
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You asked why. I answered. I don't think that merits a personal attack. As for modals, that's UI. Google's algorithm doesn't care that I've seen.
Apologies for the attack, couldn’t resist. However, what you wrote is common sense and you should assume that anyone lurking around on HN knows that stuff. I mean you actually described the page rank algorithm which was the foundation of Google but there are many more signals nowadays. So your post felt like a (small) attack too. FYI, Google runs quite a large spam team which flags scammy sites manually . Sites with…
Certainly not my intent. I come across stuff like GGP and I have a gut reaction "Oh! I know a thing! Here, see what I know?! I am helpful!"
I do this occasionally at work, too: where I explain something fundamental to people who have been doing the work for 20+ years.
Part of it is that I'm reinforcing my mental model, and part is I'm trying to be helpful. I suppose this can come across as patronizing or insulting. That's never my intent. I try not to assume what people do or don't know, because I don't know quite a lot and the asides that people make are super helpful to me (especially in fields that I know nothing about).
How about math formula support?
It's always seemed odd to me that there isn't a hosted service with a headless web/mobile CMS, compiling to a static site, that saves to a few common backends (s3, etc.), with reasonable pricing (i.e. not $10+/mo). Let the user pay for their own storage.
Hosting it on https://sdan.xyz/blog actually.