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Re: Show HN: Privacy-first, minimal, fast blogging/newsletter platform

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Post by Groxx »

colinarms wrote: post #22
Groxx wrote: post #16

Impressively fast (honestly, that's stellar work), slightly buggy in the editor (focus is sometimes hard to determine, triple-click doesn't always select a paragraph, etc) but I assume that'll get cleared up eventually, and it's pretty good looking across the board. I might actually use this. Simple and effective and not full of crap. It could use a little bit more documentation (inter-post linking how? hardcoding mi…

Thank you - appreciate all the feedback! I invested quite a bit into speed, and thankfully Next.js has a lot of great built-in support to make things fast - incremental static regeneration, link prefetching, image optimization, etc. For the editor bugs - thanks for highlighting, I filed a bug and definitely hoping to tackle this eventually. Agreed on the documentation as well - it's on my radar to improve. For custom…

I honestly do like 90% of my internet reading through RSS, so yeah, I think that's the more important one anyway :)

Re: Show HN: Privacy-first, minimal, fast blogging/newsletter platform

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Post by chrismorgan »

colinarms wrote: post #69
ayewo wrote: post #68

Your project looks nice! 1. I noticed that the signup email comes from papyrus.dev instead of papyrus.so. Any reason in particular for using 2 domains for the service? 2. Do you plan to support adding third-party tracking JS for services like Google Analytics, Umami etc? 3. I also shared some feedback elsewhere in the thread, not sure if you saw it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29083365

1. I originally registered https://papyrus.dev , with the original idea being a newsletter aimed at developers. I pivoted to be more broader, and with that, changed the TLD to .so. I haven't gotten around to setting up mail on the new TLD yet, so still using the old one for everything. 2. I'm not sure yet. One of the selling points is no third-party trackers, so I'm not sure how readers will feel if some of their blo…

Why .so? Unless you’re actually linked to Somalia, its registration rules don’t allow that, so your registration is liable to be terminated at any time. See https://sonic.so/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/dotso-domain-nam..., clause 5.5.2.

If you ever want to use a ccTLD, I recommend starting by looking at the registration restrictions in the infobox in the ccTLD’s Wikipedia article, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.so says “Limited to institutions and organizations in Somalia, residents of Somalia, others who have a legitimate, clear and provable connection to Somalia”. Also consider whether you trust the country in question to operate its registry well, not to have hostile takeovers that mess up the entire thing, &c.

Generally speaking, I recommend avoiding using ccTLDs in this way. Even new gTLDs are mostly safer. One possibility there is papyrus.pub (“pub” being nominally short for public houses, the eating places and such, but also definitely being used for publishing).

I have seen about three other .so domains, notion.so being by far the best-known; and Notion has definitely had trouble at least once either with their registration or with the operation of the registry.

Re: Show HN: Privacy-first, minimal, fast blogging/newsletter platform

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Post by colinarms »

Groxx wrote: post #71
colinarms wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you - appreciate all the feedback! I invested quite a bit into speed, and thankfully Next.js has a lot of great built-in support to make things fast - incremental static regeneration, link prefetching, image optimization, etc. For the editor bugs - thanks for highlighting, I filed a bug and definitely hoping to tackle this eventually. Agreed on the documentation as well - it's on my radar to improve. For custom…

I honestly do like 90% of my internet reading through RSS, so yeah, I think that's the more important one anyway :)

I just implemented basic RSS functionality. There's now an "RSS" link at the bottom of all blog posts and pages.

Thanks again for the feedback!

Re: Show HN: Privacy-first, minimal, fast blogging/newsletter platform

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Post by colinarms »

Groxx wrote: post #16

Impressively fast (honestly, that's stellar work), slightly buggy in the editor (focus is sometimes hard to determine, triple-click doesn't always select a paragraph, etc) but I assume that'll get cleared up eventually, and it's pretty good looking across the board. I might actually use this. Simple and effective and not full of crap. It could use a little bit more documentation (inter-post linking how? hardcoding mi…

Just circling back here - I launched custom domain support today (for a one-time fee of $50, you can unlock custom domains permanently for your blog).

Re: Show HN: Privacy-first, minimal, fast blogging/newsletter platform

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Post by colinarms »

prox wrote: post #34
colinarms wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you - appreciate all the feedback! I invested quite a bit into speed, and thankfully Next.js has a lot of great built-in support to make things fast - incremental static regeneration, link prefetching, image optimization, etc. For the editor bugs - thanks for highlighting, I filed a bug and definitely hoping to tackle this eventually. Agreed on the documentation as well - it's on my radar to improve. For custom…

I’ve been thinking about blogging for a while, and your offering is the first that makes me want to go ahead. Custom domain would be nice!

Just circling back here - I launched custom domain support today (for a one-time fee of $50, you can unlock custom domains permanently for your blog).

Re: Show HN: Privacy-first, minimal, fast blogging/newsletter platform

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Post by colinarms »

faramarz wrote: post #63

Looking forward to custom domains! I signed up because of stance on privacy and no tracking and also in the same boat; want to write more.

Just circling back here - I launched custom domain support today. For a one-time fee of $50, you can unlock custom domains permanently for your blog. Thanks!
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