Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Show HN: Openring, a free and decentralized network of blogs

git.sr.ht

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

21–30 of 101 posts

Re: Show HN: Openring, a free and decentralized network of blogs

#21

Post by boomlinde »

flunhat wrote: post #6
vbsteven wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It allows bloggers that want to keep control over their own platform and content (read: not use Medium) to be part of a bigger network of selfhosted blogs. Like in the good old days. I for one hope it catches on

How does it solve curation & search? Edit: I'm asking because I suspect your answer is going to be "it doesn't/that's not the point/who cares?" But people who read blogs will just flock to the centralized services that solve curation & search quite effectively and keep users reading. And then this centralized service will have strong incentives to become _more_ centralized, not less, and decentralized solutions like…

What does it mean for this to be functionally irrelevant? It fulfills its functional purpose regardless of whether it's popular or not.

Re: Show HN: Openring, a free and decentralized network of blogs

#22

Post by dsr_ »

z3t4 wrote: post #15

What do everyone use for feed reader !? My old phone used to have a built in feed reader. And my old browser also used to have a feed reader. Looked on Google play and there where very little to choose from. Thinking of creating my own feed reader ... Or have "blogging" moved over to "Youtubing" and the occasional podcast !?

I'm quite partial to TinyRSS, available at tt-rss.org.

Re: Show HN: Openring, a free and decentralized network of blogs

#23

Post by mdaniel »

z3t4 wrote: post #15

What do everyone use for feed reader !? My old phone used to have a built in feed reader. And my old browser also used to have a feed reader. Looked on Google play and there where very little to choose from. Thinking of creating my own feed reader ... Or have "blogging" moved over to "Youtubing" and the occasional podcast !?

I'm a lifetime subscriber to Feedly (https://feedly.com) which has behaved sanely since I joined and claims to have mobile apps but I'm not the target audience for reading blogs on my phone.

There are also quite a few self-hosted options, the most famous one that springs to mind is TinyTinyRSS (https://tt-rss.org/) but I'm sure there are folks who have more experience with any alternatives https://alternativeto.net/software/tiny-tiny-rss/

Re: Show HN: Openring, a free and decentralized network of blogs

#24

Post by jeena »

z3t4 wrote: post #15

What do everyone use for feed reader !? My old phone used to have a built in feed reader. And my old browser also used to have a feed reader. Looked on Google play and there where very little to choose from. Thinking of creating my own feed reader ... Or have "blogging" moved over to "Youtubing" and the occasional podcast !?

Tiny Tiny RSS as a backend and https://github.com/jeena/feedthemonkey as a desktop frontend.

Re: Show HN: Openring, a free and decentralized network of blogs

#25

Post by blfr »

mdaniel wrote: post #23
z3t4 wrote: post #15

What do everyone use for feed reader !? My old phone used to have a built in feed reader. And my old browser also used to have a feed reader. Looked on Google play and there where very little to choose from. Thinking of creating my own feed reader ... Or have "blogging" moved over to "Youtubing" and the occasional podcast !?

I'm a lifetime subscriber to Feedly ( https://feedly.com ) which has behaved sanely since I joined and claims to have mobile apps but I'm not the target audience for reading blogs on my phone. There are also quite a few self-hosted options, the most famous one that springs to mind is TinyTinyRSS ( https://tt-rss.org/ ) but I'm sure there are folks who have more experience with any alternatives https://alternativeto.n…

Feedly is excellent. If they only added decent feed management to their Android client (unsubscribing from a post level in particular), it would be perfect.

Re: Show HN: Openring, a free and decentralized network of blogs

#26

Post by meerita »

mdaniel wrote: post #23
z3t4 wrote: post #15

What do everyone use for feed reader !? My old phone used to have a built in feed reader. And my old browser also used to have a feed reader. Looked on Google play and there where very little to choose from. Thinking of creating my own feed reader ... Or have "blogging" moved over to "Youtubing" and the occasional podcast !?

I'm a lifetime subscriber to Feedly ( https://feedly.com ) which has behaved sanely since I joined and claims to have mobile apps but I'm not the target audience for reading blogs on my phone. There are also quite a few self-hosted options, the most famous one that springs to mind is TinyTinyRSS ( https://tt-rss.org/ ) but I'm sure there are folks who have more experience with any alternatives https://alternativeto.n…

I'm using also Feedly and I am a happy user. It feels so good to read blogs, much rewarding than social networks.

Re: Show HN: Openring, a free and decentralized network of blogs

#27

Post by kickscondor »

blondin wrote: post #17

love it! i always wondered what happened to the good old blogroll

Interesting quote from Brad Enslen about Google's possible role in this:

> Search engines in general but Google in particular: they have warped the way we build websites, many websites used to have a splash or landing page first: “You have reached the Gates of Marlborodor” (complete with MIDI music) and a big Enter button. Search engines decided they didn’t like that so word spread to get rid of them. Rumors spread that large link pages (for surfing) might be considered “link farms” (and yes on SEO sites they were but these things eventually trickle down to little personal site webmasters too) so these started to be phased out. Then the worry was Blogrolls might be considered link farms so they slowly started to be phased out. Then the biggie: when Google deliberately filtered out all the free hosted sites from the SERP’s (they were not removed completely just sent back to page 10 or so of the Google SERP’s) and traffic to Tripod and Geocities plummeted. Why? Because they were taking up space in the first 20 organic returns knocking out corporate and commercial sites and the sites likely to become paying customers were complaining.

Comment is from here: https://www.kickscondor.com/when-the-social-silos-fall/#comm...

Blogrolls are returning here and there. Here's one I saw recently: https://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2019/06/04/blogroll/

Re: Show HN: Openring, a free and decentralized network of blogs

#28

Post by frenchman99 »

Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #5
frenchman99 wrote: post #2

What's the use case for something like this ? Looks a bit like what any RSS reader would provide. Or maybe it's meant to publish links to other blogs on a separate site, which could work if the articles have a somewhat permissive license, I guess.

You rig it into your own blog. It's designed for use with static site generators. Check out the links on the bottom of my blog posts: https://drewdevault.com/2019/06/13/My-journey-from-MIT-to-GP... They're generated by this software.

Oh, OK, thanks for the example. That's nice !

Re: Show HN: Openring, a free and decentralized network of blogs

#29

Post by dewey »

z3t4 wrote: post #15

What do everyone use for feed reader !? My old phone used to have a built in feed reader. And my old browser also used to have a feed reader. Looked on Google play and there where very little to choose from. Thinking of creating my own feed reader ... Or have "blogging" moved over to "Youtubing" and the occasional podcast !?

https://miniflux.app - Very minimalistic and written in Go with a hosted and self hosted option.

Re: Show HN: Openring, a free and decentralized network of blogs

#30

Post by dewey »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #7

TL;DR, because comments to date suggest people don't bother reading the link: 1/ Yes, it's a blogroll. 2/ It's meant for static site generators. 3/ It solves curation and search by you doing the curating yourself, in the form of providing links to RSS feeds of the blogs you like. Looks really nice. I think I'll hook it up to my generator.

To be fair, there's not that much information apart from the technical usage on that link. I read it but it's not that easy to parse what it's for and what it looks like.
Post reply on HN