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Re: Show HN: Able – an alternative to Medium

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Post by sdan »

gnicholas wrote: post #88
sdan wrote: post #85

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Use Ghost. It's self-hosted and gives all the functionality you need for beginners and advanced users alike. Running it on https://sdan.xyz/blog and it's fantastic. I get RSS/subscriptions ( https://sdan.xyz/subscribe)/podcasts/a whole plethora of integrations super easily. And since it's self hosted, you don't need to worry about it ever going down (unlike if Able.bio ever does). Also, Lighthouse gives Ghost blogs t…

I was super impressed by how fast your blog loaded, but then I got caught in some sort of loop on this page [1], which won’t load. 1: https://blog.suryad.com/datascience/

Also appreciate your comments on how fast it can load! I've been vehemently working on load times across all my websites for over a year now.

Working on a blog post on how I could reduce load times and make it portable, scalable, and reliable (the server itself).

Thanks for the feedback!

Re: Show HN: Able – an alternative to Medium

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Post by somebodythere »

The main reason I don't use Medium is due to its restrictiveness on layout. I often include JavaScript snippets that are connected throughout the webpage to showcase concepts, or like to include table of contents for navigation, which you just can't do on Medium.

Re: Show HN: Able – an alternative to Medium

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Post by alireza94 »

sdan wrote: post #85
joelrunyon wrote: post #29

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

Use Ghost. It's self-hosted and gives all the functionality you need for beginners and advanced users alike. Running it on https://sdan.xyz/blog and it's fantastic. I get RSS/subscriptions ( https://sdan.xyz/subscribe)/podcasts/a whole plethora of integrations super easily. And since it's self hosted, you don't need to worry about it ever going down (unlike if Able.bio ever does). Also, Lighthouse gives Ghost blogs t…

You can even make your deployment easier by using a static site generator like Hugo.

Re: Show HN: Able – an alternative to Medium

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Post by throwyourboat »

Cool, just the other day I was looking for a place to quickly paste the longish top comment from the "who wants to get fired" thread [1] in order to be able to read it reasonably formatted. I've published the story here and given the original author control:

https://able.bio/throwthrowthrowyourboat/my-grand-ulcer-name...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21141785

Re: Show HN: Able – an alternative to Medium

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Post by close04 »

LordDragonfang wrote: post #70
close04 wrote: post #63

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> all non-tech Medium blogs > link to one eg. single useful non-tech Linkedin blog I agree with the first part of your comment. Narrowing the focus to a specific demo makes it far easier to provide exactly what your target audience needs, thus a higher quality product/service. But I have doubts about the second part. You're classifying everything in 2 categories, "tech" and "non-tech" (I assume non-IT here) so this p…

If we expand "tech" to mean "technical" rather than "technology", those statements become much more likely to be true. People who have skills in some sort of technical background seem much more likely to have interesting insights than people who do not. HN loves to post Slate Star Codex, for example, and I doubt most here have the skills in psych to effectively evaluate his writings as correct.

> much more likely

Maybe but when you go from a very low likelihood to begin with increasing it even 10 fold might not make a practical difference.

The point was any one of us here can accurately judge content on a handful of topics in our areas of expertise and to a lesser extent in connecting fields. But we can say next to nothing outside of that. Let alone generalize to "all" platforms and "99%" of content. It's not "tech"/"non-tech" but "what I know"/"what I don't know".

> interesting insights

How would one even realize this if they're an expert web developer reading a blog on astronomy? Every single article on a platform could be either gold or shiny manure and most of us wouldn't really tell the difference unless they solidly overlap with those topics mentioned above.

Re: Show HN: Able – an alternative to Medium

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Post by jakecodes »

new_here wrote: post #87
jakecodes wrote: post #82

The oauth2 requirements for twitter signup are quite aggressive. * See Tweets from your timeline (including protected Tweets) as well as your Lists and collections. * See your Twitter profile information and account settings. * See accounts you follow, mute, and block. * Follow and unfollow accounts for you. * Update your profile and account settings. * Post and delete Tweets for you, and engage with Tweets posted by…

Apologies, we’ll tighten that up. We only want social auth to streamline onboarding.

Cool. I assumed it was unintentional. Once you do that I'm in.

Re: Show HN: Able – an alternative to Medium

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Post by whsheet »

all2 wrote: post #78
whsheet wrote: post #67

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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…

> So your post felt like a (small) attack too. 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…

All good and thanks for the explanation. I was def a bit grumpy and you really wanted just to help.

Re: Show HN: Able – an alternative to Medium

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Post by whsheet »

close04 wrote: post #95
LordDragonfang wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If we expand "tech" to mean "technical" rather than "technology", those statements become much more likely to be true. People who have skills in some sort of technical background seem much more likely to have interesting insights than people who do not. HN loves to post Slate Star Codex, for example, and I doubt most here have the skills in psych to effectively evaluate his writings as correct.

> much more likely Maybe but when you go from a very low likelihood to begin with increasing it even 10 fold might not make a practical difference. The point was any one of us here can accurately judge content on a handful of topics in our areas of expertise and to a lesser extent in connecting fields. But we can say next to nothing outside of that. Let alone generalize to "all" platforms and "99%" of content. It's n…

You are def right that I should not pack everything in a non-tech cluster and call it crap. However I'd still keep my initial statement, it's a simplicatiom but it's true.

Of course there are and must be great blogs in non-tech areas but they are not that many. Writing high quality blogs for free seems not be common in other fields. Often people rather publish the findings in a protected space, call it academic paper and I can read just a lousy abstract. Actually most academic non-tech fields fall in this category.

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