"Forestry". Really? I can understand many other hot startups using names of random objects, but using the name of an entire completely different profession?
Something something about growing and monetising (b)logs?
Nah, I got nothing.
Forestry.io
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#62Not a very descriptive headline. I see many headlines like this on Hacker News with just a name, and I often skip over them. Give people some information to draw them in, and to assure them it will not be a waste of time. All I can assume at this point is that your site is about forestry. Edit: I have looked at the site, and indeed it has nothing to do with forestry. You would do well to include in the headline the s…
I agree. I'm always confused how non-descriptive stories make it to the frontpage of HN though...
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#63Not a very descriptive headline. I see many headlines like this on Hacker News with just a name, and I often skip over them. Give people some information to draw them in, and to assure them it will not be a waste of time. All I can assume at this point is that your site is about forestry. Edit: I have looked at the site, and indeed it has nothing to do with forestry. You would do well to include in the headline the s…
I'm the opposite. When it's just a name I become intrigued, always thinking "is this the next big thing?" and thrilled to find out what it is.
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#64Not a very descriptive headline. I see many headlines like this on Hacker News with just a name, and I often skip over them. Give people some information to draw them in, and to assure them it will not be a waste of time. All I can assume at this point is that your site is about forestry. Edit: I have looked at the site, and indeed it has nothing to do with forestry. You would do well to include in the headline the s…
Was expecting some IoT SAAS for actual forest/garden management. Was disappointed.
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#65Any plans on supporting Gitlab and Gitlab Pages? Would also be stoked if it was open source, I'd probably still pay for the service but just knowing that it is OSS and that I could tweak it myself would be great.
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#66This looks great! I'd probably only use it for a real project, if it came with more fine-grained permissions, though. I wouldn't want writers or editors to control pages and chunks, for instance. Still the best Jekyll CMS I've seen.
We are working on permissions. Ideally, what would you like to see?
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#67Well I didn't want to post this on HN but I can't find any contact info in your site nor your HN profile so .... The mobile landing page plays the video on touchstart which makes it hard to scroll through the page since any touch of the thumbnails, even just for the purpose of scrollong, starts the videos :(
Thanks. We will fix that.
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#68This looks great! I'd probably only use it for a real project, if it came with more fine-grained permissions, though. I wouldn't want writers or editors to control pages and chunks, for instance. Still the best Jekyll CMS I've seen.
We are working on permissions. Ideally, what would you like to see?
Awesome.
Probably an Admin/Editor/Writer hierarchy where admins can manage both Posts, Pages, and Chunks, and Editors can edit all writers' posts, whereas Writers can only create posts and edit their own. Perhaps Writers could also be restricted to only submitting a post for publication, which the editor could then pull the trigger on.
Chunks are really interesting, but I feel that permissions should be more granular. They're great to collate information about the writers (bio, Twitter, e-mail), but they should probably only be able to edit their own field.
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#69Good job. The UI looks really nice. The ability to upload it to lots of different endpoints allows for so much flexibility. I've just uploaded a Jekyll site, but it failed, the error message could have been more descriptive.
Thanks for the feedback. We are working on making our error messages better.
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#70Not a very descriptive headline. I see many headlines like this on Hacker News with just a name, and I often skip over them. Give people some information to draw them in, and to assure them it will not be a waste of time. All I can assume at this point is that your site is about forestry. Edit: I have looked at the site, and indeed it has nothing to do with forestry. You would do well to include in the headline the s…
I agree. I'm always confused how non-descriptive stories make it to the frontpage of HN though...
Getting friends to upvote their submissions, I'd guess.