My first tiny "weekend project": readable text hosting. Useful?
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Re: My first tiny "weekend project": readable text hosting. Useful?
#2My point was to be able to publish readable "blog posts" on sites like HN and reddit without an actual blog. I'd love to hear feedback on whether it might be useful, and if not, what might make it so.
Re: My first tiny "weekend project": readable text hosting. Useful?
#3It is useful to share bits of a larger text. A "source" text box to input the URL of the source would be great. Thanks!
Re: My first tiny "weekend project": readable text hosting. Useful?
#4My point was to be able to publish readable "blog posts" on sites like HN and reddit without an actual blog. I'd love to hear feedback on whether it might be useful, and if not, what might make it so.
anonymous functions:functions::tidypub:blogs
Re: My first tiny "weekend project": readable text hosting. Useful?
#5It's useful as a user interface experiment. Most blogs require signing up before posting. This lets people post first, maybe get some traffic, then you can gradually suggest new features based on how each user uses it.
I doubt you'll get enough users though.
Re: My first tiny "weekend project": readable text hosting. Useful?
#6It is useful to share bits of a larger text. A "source" text box to input the URL of the source would be great. Thanks!
If by the source you mean another page, then what's the point? Besides, scraping capabilities should be in place for some kind of text-import functionality to work.
Re: My first tiny "weekend project": readable text hosting. Useful?
#7Looks really awesome. I dig the clean interface/presentation.
The app is done well enough where nothing is overtly bad or glaring. That being said, I do have a few light thoughts & suggestions.
- I agree a source textbox for citations would be nice, but it's not too pressing considering you can include it at the end. In a similar vein, an author box would be nice too.
- Any reason why the URLs are 5 letters long? Not to undervalue the popularity of the service, but you could easily start out with 3 letter abbreviations, which would give you ~150k URLs.
- For that matter, what is your character set? Are you using just letters, or alphanumeric characters? Again, I'd prefer the former since you aren't going to get a significant boost from the extra choices. You might also want to take out 'O', 'o', and 'l' so its unambiguous when written out.
- Finally, although I'd be weary of allowing crazy markup systems, it might be good to implement a lightweight format such as Markdown. Nothing too fancy, but it's nice to be able to add emphasis without having to SHOUT.
For fun, my comment on tidypub: http://tidypub.org/moAbu
Re: My first tiny "weekend project": readable text hosting. Useful?
#8My point was to be able to publish readable "blog posts" on sites like HN and reddit without an actual blog. I'd love to hear feedback on whether it might be useful, and if not, what might make it so.
Is there any text lenght limitation?
Re: My first tiny "weekend project": readable text hosting. Useful?
#9Could you tell us something about how it was built?
Re: My first tiny "weekend project": readable text hosting. Useful?
#10See Infogami. It's not available anymore, but maybe some use ideas there. http://web.archive.org/web/20061107190837/http://infogami.co...