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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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Post by _pra »

ido wrote: post #68
mike-cardwell wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Jottit works without JavaScript and also has a HTTPS version: https://jottit.com/ 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...

Why is working without js an advantage? Do you often browse on browsers that do not possess a js interpreter?

I use No(t)Script to whitelist sites I trust. Noticing there was blocked JavaScript on a page of simple text would prejudice me against it.

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

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Post by falcolas »

ido wrote: post #68
mike-cardwell wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Jottit works without JavaScript and also has a HTTPS version: https://jottit.com/ 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...

Why is working without js an advantage? Do you often browse on browsers that do not possess a js interpreter?

There is still a large number of mobile browsers whose javascript support is minimal or non-existant. Sure, the iPhone/Android market will be OK, but what about the Blackberry, Nokia and Motorola folks who still make up a majority of mobile browsers?

Also, a good number of security conscious folks who run Firefox also run noscript. This means that they can't use the site without explicitly whitelisting the site's javascript, which reduces it's immediate usability.

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

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Post by mike-cardwell »

ido wrote: post #68
mike-cardwell wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Jottit works without JavaScript and also has a HTTPS version: https://jottit.com/ 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...

Why is working without js an advantage? Do you often browse on browsers that do not possess a js interpreter?

Because I choose to disable it by default for security and privacy reasons.

There is no good reason that this site should require javascript. Nothing it does is improved by the javascript requirement.

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

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Post by zbanks »

jules wrote: post #38
zbanks wrote: 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…

> 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.

Actually, it's more of an issue with writing down the URL and passing it on.

Less characters means its harder to screw up. Question marks and random letters make non-techie people anxious. If its short, it at least helps.

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

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Post by lisper »

natep wrote: post #76
lisper wrote: post #70

Your competition: http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability

Not really. Readability is for content that's already online. His 'competition' is sites like pastebin.

That depends on what you think the product is. Tidypub is pastebin+readability.

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

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Post by rwolf »

vvpan wrote: post #77
zbanks wrote: 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…

Thanks for the feedback. Much-much appreciated. I was thinking of adding an "author" field, and now that you and some other people mention it, I think I will follow through with it. Honestly, you seem to have put much more thought into URL shortening than I did. I am using just letters for the character set. Shortening the URL sounds like a good idea. And removing the O's and l's is also something that I think I woul…

I'd recommend against shortening the key length, given that keeping the keys hard to guess is how you're keeping them private.

See https://gist.github.com/722474 for a proof of concept scraper. If the key length dropped to 4 chars (and you kept l, o, L, and O in the set), there would only be 7,311,616 urls to try to find all the notes.

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

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Post by handcoding »

vvpan wrote: post #74
extension wrote: post #43

I 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…

Thanks a lot for the suggestions. Agree on the first point. Markdown formatting I actually did implement, but commented out for the first "release". It will be a somewhat restricted markdown, along the line of reddit. I am not sure what you mean about the branding. If you could elaborate, I would be greatful. The feedback button should go, I agree. Thanks again! I decided to follow the "let users tell you what they w…

In case it might be of use, GitHub has come up with a somewhat-restricted version of Markdown: http://github.github.com/github-flavored-markdown/
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