Show HN: Simple personal blogging service. Looking forward to feedback

#1

Post by robot » Sat, Nov 21, 2015, 11:14 PM UTC

Show HN: Simple personal blogging service. Looking forward to feedback
followme.co

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#2

Post by J_Darnley » Sun, Nov 22, 2015, 8:25 PM UTC

JS;DR - Javascript; Didn't Read.

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#3

Post by litzer » Mon, Nov 23, 2015, 1:52 AM UTC

You should probably compress your images before serving them. (e.g. banner is 7.8 MB)

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#4

Post by archinal » Mon, Nov 23, 2015, 2:23 AM UTC

litzer wrote: post #3

You should probably compress your images before serving them. (e.g. banner is 7.8 MB)

The index page load took over 10 seconds for me, which is about 8 seconds too long.

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#5

Post by skimmas » Mon, Nov 23, 2015, 2:28 AM UTC

follow me sounds incredibly needy

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#6

Post by robot » Mon, Nov 23, 2015, 4:15 AM UTC

archinal wrote: post #4

litzer wrote: post #3

You should probably compress your images before serving them. (e.g. banner is 7.8 MB)

The index page load took over 10 seconds for me, which is about 8 seconds too long.

Thanks, fixed image sizes.

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#7

Post by robot » Mon, Nov 23, 2015, 4:50 AM UTC

skimmas wrote: post #5

follow me sounds incredibly needy

Thanks, we thought about this.

One intention is to make the site name feel white label, so it focuses on the user's name instead of the service.

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#8

Post by truthexplodes » Mon, Nov 23, 2015, 10:18 AM UTC

Add a community for this, and you'll destroy Medium. Nice work!