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My first tiny "weekend project": readable text hosting. Useful?

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Re: My first tiny "weekend project": readable text hosting. Useful?

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Looks 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…

I agree with the points here. Markdown seems like a great idea. Maybe have a toggle for what the post is in (Markdown / Plain text)?

Also I'd like to see a post date on the page.

Finally is it open source?

Re: My first tiny "weekend project": readable text hosting. Useful?

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post #7

Looks 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…

At least linkify urls. It's trivial; use http://daringfireball.net/2009/11/liberal_regex_for_matching...

Interestingly I chose 5 letters as well for my url shortener. e.g. http://twitter.com/akkartik/status/7915316453580803

Re: My first tiny "weekend project": readable text hosting. Useful?

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post #14
post #10

See Infogami. It's not available anymore, but maybe some use ideas there. http://web.archive.org/web/20061107190837/http://infogami.co...

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http://blettr.com/ seems closer, with support for photos, videos, and privacy controls as well.

Re: My first tiny "weekend project": readable text hosting. Useful?

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post #17
post #14

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http://blettr.com/ seems closer, with support for photos, videos, and privacy controls as well.

This has got to be one of the most terrible domain names I've ever seen.
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