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

#41

Post by tonyarkles »

vbsteven wrote: post #4
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.

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

Yeah, I remember webrings back in the day and absolutely miss it. The discovery aspect of it was awesome! You come across a great article through a search engine and are curious who the author likes reading.

Most centralized platforms seem to recommend other authors based entirely on the topic. You’re reading a post about Rails Generators? It’ll recommend other articles about the same thing. With WebRings it was way more diverse than that. End up on an electronics page and discover all sorts of other fascinating authors doing entirely different things.

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

#42

Post by masukomi »

Is it just me, or is this just an automated way to steal other people's content and put it on your blog without their permission?

> ...fetch the latest 3 articles from among your sources... Then you can include this file with your static site generator's normal file include mechanism.

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

#43

Post by Sir_Cmpwn »

masukomi wrote: post #42

Is it just me, or is this just an automated way to steal other people's content and put it on your blog without their permission? > ...fetch the latest 3 articles from among your sources... Then you can include this file with your static site generator's normal file include mechanism.

It only fetches the first 256 characters and links through to the article on your own site... I guess if you don't like it you can send me a DMCA request.

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

#44

Post by dewey »

tschellenbach wrote: post #35
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 !?

almost 7k stars: https://github.com/GetStream/Winds

Disclaimer: it's your project :P

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

#46

Post by apsdsm »

trulyrandom wrote: post #45

It's interesting that none of the comments so far complain about the size of the binary (13MB!). Nodejs and Electron projects get flak for this all the time, but Go somehow gets away with it.

I imagine because go compiles to an actual native binary, whilst electron wraps a browser and a chunk of JavaScript in a zip file.

You can’t really say “go gets away with it” as though these languages are doing the same thing.

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

#47

Post by thinkingemote »

tonyarkles wrote: post #41
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

Yeah, I remember webrings back in the day and absolutely miss it. The discovery aspect of it was awesome! You come across a great article through a search engine and are curious who the author likes reading. Most centralized platforms seem to recommend other authors based entirely on the topic. You’re reading a post about Rails Generators? It’ll recommend other articles about the same thing. With WebRings it was way…

It was also a key feature of Google reader kind of. You would be able to follow other readers and not just publishers also increasing discovery.

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

#48

Post by trulyrandom »

apsdsm wrote: post #46
trulyrandom wrote: post #45

It's interesting that none of the comments so far complain about the size of the binary (13MB!). Nodejs and Electron projects get flak for this all the time, but Go somehow gets away with it.

I imagine because go compiles to an actual native binary, whilst electron wraps a browser and a chunk of JavaScript in a zip file. You can’t really say “go gets away with it” as though these languages are doing the same thing.

You're right. My observation was just that the discussions often don't go much deeper than "look at this big binary", so I was surprised to find none of that here.

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

#49

Post by albertgoeswoof »

If this is widely adopted, it would be quite straightforward to crawl and graph a network of all the blogs in the ring. This would be really cool! Search sucks for finding good blogs in my experience.

Is there anything in the output html that would make this crawling easier to do?

RSS seems to persist because it’s on by default on almost all blogging platforms. How can we make this into an on by default option in the main static site generators and CMS’s?

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

#50

Post by sethetter »

trulyrandom wrote: post #45

It's interesting that none of the comments so far complain about the size of the binary (13MB!). Nodejs and Electron projects get flak for this all the time, but Go somehow gets away with it.

I think the larger complaint about electron is the memory usage, not disk space usage. Go may have large binaries, but they run fast and efficient.
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