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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 SoftwareMaven »

vvpan wrote: post #79
LiveTheDream wrote: post #21

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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…

Weeeelll... I was somewhat inspired by readability, so a resemblance is not coincidental. I have seen posterous, but I was going for something even simpler. The email to post idea is pretty cool though. Thanks a lot for the feedback.

Being able to send an email and get the URL back without having a full blog set up like posterous would be awesome. It really could become an anonymous blog.

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

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Post by wazoox »

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

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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?

Usability. I use a JS-capable browser, but many blind people don't, and they may be interested in this tool nonetheless.

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

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Post by wazoox »

masterj wrote: post #17
[deleted] wrote: post #14

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

Definitely too complex... Tidypub or jottit win on the simplicity.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

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

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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?

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

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Post by ido »

[deleted] wrote: post #94
ido wrote: post #68

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

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Not really, js is an open standard with many competing and free implementations.

In fact I can't think of any reason how the two cases are in any way the same (I could see your point if we were talking about something like activex).

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

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Post by sielskr »

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

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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 using code plus data where just data can be used introduces security risks and limits what people can do with the document. I would have hoped that the industry would have learned that already from PostScript, PDF, COM and the Microsoft Office formats.

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

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Post by vvpan »

handcoding wrote: post #90
vvpan wrote: post #74

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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/

Thanks! It is useful. I am surprised that there are not more of these restricted markdown projects. It's a common need.

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

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Post by umbrae »

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…

Aside: A long while back I wrote a tiny greasemonkey script to remove those annoying feedback tabs. (Here: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/76116 )

I forgot that they even existed until you just mentioned it. Maybe other people would want to use it?

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