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Re: Micro.blog

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Post by detaro »

prepend wrote: post #36
deyan wrote: post #22

Lots of negativity here, as is unfortunately typical at HN far too often these days. Especially given that this project is what HN is supposed to be about - done by a lone hacker with help from volunteers, trying to create a different and hopefully better social media. Sure, it may or may not work, it has all sorts of pros and cons, but I’d vote for being open-minded and constructive rather than cynical from the get…

I think it’s a neat idea and seems to be what blogger was way back in the day. $5/month is completely unreasonable as a github pages account is free and Dropbox/OneDrive is $8/month. This would be a really neat oss project. And I’m sure some people will find this useful, but seems like not the solution to social media problems. The only way I would think this is good is if it donates $4.95/month to some sort of simpl…

On the other hand, $5 is relatively cheap compared to other paid hosting platforms, so clearly people are willing to pay for additional comfort over Github Pages. I seriously don't get how people don't seem to understand that (and I say that as someone who self-hosts a lot of stuff, and thus personally isn't interested paying for a blog, but know plenty people who do).

Re: Micro.blog

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Post by detaro »

drb91 wrote: post #33
deyan wrote: post #22

Lots of negativity here, as is unfortunately typical at HN far too often these days. Especially given that this project is what HN is supposed to be about - done by a lone hacker with help from volunteers, trying to create a different and hopefully better social media. Sure, it may or may not work, it has all sorts of pros and cons, but I’d vote for being open-minded and constructive rather than cynical from the get…

I would want to know if my product did not address any demands, especially since they’re charging money. This is not a run-it-yourself Show HN link to a github repo, and honest critique is the whole reason to post here. Personally, I’m struggling to see the value over any of the many static blog generators out there, considering the recurring(!) cost.

As other comments have noted, you can integrate your (static) blog hosted somewhere else into its platform for free. Other people don't want to mess with setting that up, like having mobile apps, and pay for that extra comfort.

Re: Micro.blog

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Post by quickthrower2 »

Aissen wrote: post #54
SyneRyder wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was about to say the same thing. Think of the username.micro.blog pages as your personal home page, like a Wordpress or Squarespace blog site. They're a hosting option for people who aren't tech-savvy enough to setup an RSS feed / 280-char micro-post RSS feed on their own site, or just don't want the hassle of maintaining that setup. I believe others have tried posting similar XSS into a Micro.Blog post, and it get…

I think it's only true as long as every *.micro.blog subdomain is properly isolated, and you can't access cookies/sessions from micro.blog (e.g post/comment as someone else, if there's no CSRF token). I haven't checked, but hopefully it's the case here. See: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/95369/persisten...

Different subdomains are different origins. So it's safe.

Re: Micro.blog

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Post by zhte415 »

SyneRyder wrote: post #29
zhte415 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The ToS and Privacy Policies links you posted are nowhere to be seen on the front page, registration page, or indeed any page that is clickable on visiting the link. Where's the about page? Whois just has tucows REDACTED FOR PRIVACY. Could you also link to an About page via HN instead of clearly posting on your own website?

> Whois just has tucows REDACTED FOR PRIVACY. That's the same for every domain right now. You can thank the GDPR for that, it wiped out Whois globally and doesn't provide an option for you to say "actually I do want my details published in Whois". ICANN is currently suing Tucows about it: https://www.tucows.com/blog/2018/05/28/tucows-statement-on-i...

I can blame that the of an about page for there being a lack of an about page.

Re: Micro.blog

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Post by qwerty456127 »

I actually find it a problem (for myself at least but there probably are many people who feel the same) that we only seem to have Medium-like big-article blogging and Twitter-like SMS-y single-sentence microblogging platforms. I really want a hybrid, something in between, something for short posts but without twitterish post length limits, with markdown and media embedding support, letting you to edit your posts whenever you want and leveraging a HN-like first-class comments feature (instead of a Twitter-like response model). Google+ was the most close to this of what I've seen so far.

Re: Micro.blog

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Post by ckastner »

deyan wrote: post #22

Lots of negativity here, as is unfortunately typical at HN far too often these days. Especially given that this project is what HN is supposed to be about - done by a lone hacker with help from volunteers, trying to create a different and hopefully better social media. Sure, it may or may not work, it has all sorts of pros and cons, but I’d vote for being open-minded and constructive rather than cynical from the get…

> Lots of negativity here, as is unfortunately typical at HN far too often these days.

Lot's of objectivity here, I'd say. You admit yourself that "it has all sorts of pros and cons", so why shouldn't the cons be discussed here?

Constructive criticism is something positive.

Re: Micro.blog

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Post by Griffinsauce »

stedaniels wrote: post #38
prepend wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it’s a neat idea and seems to be what blogger was way back in the day. $5/month is completely unreasonable as a github pages account is free and Dropbox/OneDrive is $8/month. This would be a really neat oss project. And I’m sure some people will find this useful, but seems like not the solution to social media problems. The only way I would think this is good is if it donates $4.95/month to some sort of simpl…

You reckon you could build and run this as a service for $0.05 a user per month? Whilst perhaps scraping profit? Care to share some of your own products, I'm keen to see how sustainable your business models are.

Sustainability and viability are not linked.

Re: Micro.blog

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Post by TeMPOraL »

teddyh wrote: post #57
gl0w wrote: post #43

> Registration error. Email address must not include a "+" character. Why not? "+" is valid in email addresses.

They want to spam you later (or sell your address to spammers) and have you not know where they got the address.

More likely, they just googled "e-mail vaildation regex" and copied the first/smallest result from StackOverflow. Happens all the time.

Re: Micro.blog

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Post by vectorEQ »

it would be interesting to learn how it works and does what it does before i register. It says nothing about it on the homepage apart from a general idea which is good, but how is it implemented???
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