My first tiny "weekend project": readable text hosting. Useful?
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Re: My first tiny "weekend project": readable text hosting. Useful?
#32neat idea, nice spike at it. i could see this filling a certain use case for some folks.
Re: My first tiny "weekend project": readable text hosting. Useful?
#33This is great. MathJax support would kick ass too.
Re: My first tiny "weekend project": readable text hosting. Useful?
#34It is useful to share bits of a larger text. A "source" text box to input the URL of the source would be great. Thanks!
//A "source" text box to input the URL of the source//
If the source already has a URL, then why is it needed to create a another (short) URL for that source again! a URL shortener (bit.ly, goo.gl) could be used in that scenario. :)
Re: My first tiny "weekend project": readable text hosting. Useful?
#35Why not expand on the concept that people could use a place to store an annotation of any sort. That way, if I want to leave people text, photos, a presentation, an embedded video, etc, I can do that without the need to create a blog or let that person see a full history of other things I've written. Another idea would be to generate a QR code for the page. That being said, I can't think of very many times I've neede…
> Why not expand on the concept...
Well I'm glad he didn't wait to show it until after he'd expanded on the concept. This is a great example of software that does one thing and does it well.
Re: My first tiny "weekend project": readable text hosting. Useful?
#36How about adding a print button/link on the same page as the text ?
Re: My first tiny "weekend project": readable text hosting. Useful?
#37Aaron Swartz did it first with http://jottit.com/
Re: My first tiny "weekend project": readable text hosting. Useful?
#38Looks 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…
> Any reason why the URLs are 5 letters long?
What has Twitter done to this world? I for one would like to see the title you type appear in the url.
Re: My first tiny "weekend project": readable text hosting. Useful?
#39Interesting, merits further development I think. The idea has merit but not quite just in this current form, you need to find some other missing element to marry it too perhaps.
Re: My first tiny "weekend project": readable text hosting. Useful?
#40Looks 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…
> 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.
I'd suggest using New Base 60, which has some smart readability built in: http://tantek.pbworks.com/w/page/19402946/NewBase60