> Blogging like it's 1999
> 3. It's written in JavaScript and runs under Node.js.
1999.io: Blogging like it's 1999
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Re: 1999.io: Blogging like it's 1999
#521999? XML is our savior! The future of the web will be interconnected SOAP services! It's the year of the Linux desktop! Itanium will revolutionize software if someone would just make a sufficiently smart compiler!
To be fair, the neat parts of SOAP, WSDL, still is pretty neat. XML is mostly hated because named closing tags make it stupidly verbose -- a big mistake. After that it was extra complicated which made platforms like PHP have crappy implementations, I guess. But having to rewrite lots of boilerplate code for everyone's JSON or "REST" API is annoying. There's even projects to describe JSON schemas and APIs because that…
> After that it was extra complicated which made platforms like PHP have crappy implementations, I guess.
If the implementations are bad, the specification may be not simple enough.
Re: 1999.io: Blogging like it's 1999
#53When I go to their "about" page, this is the entirety of the content that I see:
> How is 1999.io different from other blogging platforms?
Looking at the source, I see a little more content.
"Create a test site" is almost completely blank (no text, just a drop shadow and some pull-down arrows near the top of the page). Their other links seem to work as designed.
My work blocks some domains, and is stricter about ones that it doesn't know about (like 1999.io), but I didn't have trouble with accessing any of the fargo.io css or js files.
Re: 1999.io: Blogging like it's 1999
#54If I have to enable javascript to view parts of your website at all, then it isn't anything like 1999.
> If I have to enable javascript to view parts of your website at all, then it isn't anything like 1999. JS is older than that, and early uses of it were notorious for not having graceful fallbacks, so, no, I think that description is not at all unlike 1999.
We need the little text+logos at the bottom of the page telling us which browsers we can expect it to work on.
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#57This confuses me. Several months ago Dave Winer wrote a post titled 'Anywhere but Medium' where he railed against closed platforms such as Medium that could disappear at a moment's notice and where the editorial voice was controlled by a company (as an individual gets to decide who gets noticed).
Now Dave Winer is launching a platform that could also disappear at a moments' notice, where the best chance of being 'noticed' is likely to be getting reposted by Dave Winer.
What's more, it seems to go against some of the Open Web principles that Winer espouses (seems to require JavaScript to view any content, doesn't seem to render anything if you have Safari Content Blockers running, requires a Twitter account even to get up and running with the thing). All in all it seems to have very little to do with 1999 or any kind of 'golden age' for the Web.
Developers already have tons of options for getting a blog up and running, from GitHub Pages to Posthaven and Ghost - what gives with this?
Re: 1999.io: Blogging like it's 1999
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
You have to enable JavaScript (from fargo.io) to view posts (or at least to view the About page.)
The About page should NOT have required JS. That was a mistake. I'm going to fix it, but not tonight. Here's an example of a blog post written in 1999.io. http://scripting.com/2016/06/08/1311.html You do NOT need JS on to read it, by design.
I feel like a lot of people are harshing on the fact that this is not like, I dunno, geocities or something, but I just want to express some appreciation that an effort is made for those of us who do not want to execute arbitrary code just to read a blog entry.
One note - on that page, it seems that while the content is there independent of Javascript, the navigation is loaded (from three different domains) with Javascript. I suspect there's a more graceful way to fallback there.
Re: 1999.io: Blogging like it's 1999
#59This confuses me. Several months ago Dave Winer wrote a post titled 'Anywhere but Medium' where he railed against closed platforms such as Medium that could disappear at a moment's notice and where the editorial voice was controlled by a company (as an individual gets to decide who gets noticed). Now Dave Winer is launching a platform that could also disappear at a moments' notice, where the best chance of being 'not…
> Now Dave Winer is launching a platform that could also disappear at a moments' notice,
Looks like you can set up your own server, so assuming you point your own domain at this, if 1999 goes belly-up, you can just switch to another host seamlessly:
https://github.com/scripting/1999-project/blob/master/docs/s...
> (seems to require JavaScript to view any content
This is true of the "About" page, but it looks like that is not true of actual blog entries. If you enable JS on the about page, they explicitly state that one of their goals is a graceful fallback when JS is not present.
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#60> We use Twitter for identity, so creating a connection to Twitter is part of the setup process. That must be as far from "blogging like it's 1999" one will ever get. :-/
Reminds me of the "frozen in time" NBA Jam site ... with Google analytics.