How about adding a print button/link on the same page as the text ?
Why? Can't you use browser's print button?
My first tiny "weekend project": readable text hosting. Useful?
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Re: My first tiny "weekend project": readable text hosting. Useful?
#42My 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.
You can also do this by emailing anything (e.g. text, pictures, YouTube link, gist URL, etc) from any email address to post@posterous.com. Of course, future emails to the same address are tied to the same blog, so if anonymity is your goal (including no association to a previous anonymous post), that option wouldn't work. Nice clean look & feel though. It looks almost exactly the same as what my Readability bookmarkl…
Posterous does the hard stuff while this eliminates the hard stuff. There's a subtle (and interesting difference).
Posterous makes all sorts of decisions for you giving you a good default, eliminating and deferring choices. Here is no hard stuff to do for you. Simple vs easy.
I think this way has a much lower overhead and I wouldn't be surprised is link-less posts make use of this.
Re: My first tiny "weekend project": readable text hosting. Useful?
#43I love this! Tons of places to dump text on the web but I've never seen one that gives you a clean page. Suggestions:
- Set a cookie and let the poster edit/delete the page after it's published. They will make typos, mess up the formatting, post while drunk, etc.
- Markdown formatting. You need at least bold and italics. You could even have a small toolbar. I don't think the editor needs to be super minimal, just the viewer.
- Make sure the branding and links at the bottom are visually distinct from anything the user could enter. Maybe give it a grey background or invert it or something. Fixed positioning is also an option, but might be too annoying.
- Remove the Feedback tab from the viewer.. really spoils the aesthetic.
Re: My first tiny "weekend project": readable text hosting. Useful?
#44My 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.
Keep it as simple as possible. If you do implement any features make them as near invisible to people who aren't interested as possible. eg markup rules on a link somewhere else, 'tiny more options text toggle,' etc.
Don't compromise simplicity.
Re: My first tiny "weekend project": readable text hosting. Useful?
#45I'm out amd about just now and currently lookimg at this on my Kindle browser. looks fantastic! i'll check it out more when i get home.
Re: My first tiny "weekend project": readable text hosting. Useful?
#46Re: My first tiny "weekend project": readable text hosting. Useful?
#47Nice!
How about a script for a *NIX command line?
$ tidypub -t 'Any Title' Re: My first tiny "weekend project": readable text hosting. Useful?
#48Good idea but logo not readable. https://skitch.com/jm3net/rnqge/logo-not-readable
Re: My first tiny "weekend project": readable text hosting. Useful?
#49Nice. If you were to use the placeholder attribute for the title box, and change the publish button to a "submit" type input, then it would work without requiring JavaScript...
Re: My first tiny "weekend project": readable text hosting. Useful?
#50Aaron Swartz did it first with http://jottit.com/
Jottit works without JavaScript and also has a HTTPS version:
There is also a HTTPS-Everywhere ruleset for it in the current development branch.
For those reasons alone, I would always choose jottit over tidypub...