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

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Post by ddevault »

asdkhadsj wrote: post #64
Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I prefer getopt because it's more succinct and more standardized. I made sr.ht :) I can't give you an unbiased opinion, but naturally I think it's quite nice given that I designed it explicitly to suit my needs. Check out the marketing page for some more details: https://sourcehut.org

Heya, so I just checked out Sourcehut and despite really wanting to use it (and pay) I decided not to. But because I find the product cool, I figured I should note why. So, 1. My primary projects of which I need private hosting contain many (less than a GB, currently) "large" files hosted. Of course, these files need to be tied to the source code. Currently I'm solving this with Git LFS. Now, I'm not exactly tied to…

Hey, thanks for the feedback.

Regarding point 1, I do eventually want to add git lfs support.

Regarding point 2, the only thing I can say is "don't knock it until you've tried it". As someone who's spent thousands of hours each in GitHub, Gerrit, and email, as well as some time in GitLab, Gitea, and Phabricator, I've tried a lot of workflows and email is by far the most efficient. However, in the future I plan on adding web UIs for review and patch submission which are backed by email underneath, so you can use the web or email - whichever you prefer. I think you ought to give email an earnest shot, though.

https://git-send-email.io

https://aerc-mail.org

Also, lots of people use a subset of SourceHut, like the CI service for example, while still hosting git repos on GitHub or GitLab. Because it's modular in design, each piece can be useful ala-carte or composed freely with other solutions.

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

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Post by spacecowboy17 »

Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #19
nathcd wrote: post #18

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Hmmm oh I suppose if I just exposed my feed reader's aggregated feed as an rss feed over a local http server, I could just point Openring at that! I might try to whip that together this afternoon! (I use newsboat in case anyone else is interested in such a thing.)

Actually, I'm afraid this won't work (but I would be interested in seeing if you could write a patch for it). Openring is designed to only use up to one article from each feed, to keep the set of links diverse.

All RSS readers support import/export feeds in OPML format. Maybe you could support that format as the input to Openring?

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

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Post by Sir_Cmpwn »

spacecowboy17 wrote: post #72
Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually, I'm afraid this won't work (but I would be interested in seeing if you could write a patch for it). Openring is designed to only use up to one article from each feed, to keep the set of links diverse.

All RSS readers support import/export feeds in OPML format. Maybe you could support that format as the input to Openring?

Patches welcome! I think this would be a great addition.

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

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Post by misterdoubt »

samb1729 wrote: post #59
Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I prefer getopt because it's more succinct and more standardized. I made sr.ht :) I can't give you an unbiased opinion, but naturally I think it's quite nice given that I designed it explicitly to suit my needs. Check out the marketing page for some more details: https://sourcehut.org

Might I ask whether you have any intention to revisit this issue? https://todo.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/todo.sr.ht/176

Ooh no one tell them about the terrifying hybrid feline/invertebrate that lurks on a different git hosting platform. O, the unprofessionalism!

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

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Post by bjg »

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's just you.

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

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Post by dosy »

anigbrowl wrote: post #55
albertgoeswoof wrote: post #49

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…

How would you go about getting that information on existing blogs? A great many blogs have 'blogrolls' but scraping that information seems far more time-consuming than it ought to be due to the variations in layout etc. etc.

What about just asking people to submit their favorite blogs, collecting the thousand or so links and then release them in a directory ranked by submissions, or in a weekly newsletter with like 5 links?

Oh hey I made that: https://forms.gle/QKdHTMJEXroyYj386

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

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Post by SkyMarshal »

sethetter wrote: post #50
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.

Exactly. Who cares about 13MB disk usage in this day and age? But RAM is still too easily exhausted on a workstation with a decent amount of multitasking going on.

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

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Post by hutattedonmyarm »

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 used Feedly for quite a while since google reader shutdown, but switched to Inoreader about 3 or 4 months at. Generally I’m happy with it, although most of the time I access the feed via the Reeder MacOS and iOS apps

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

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Post by datashaman »

This article gives a good rundown of what a webring was.

https://www.hover.com/blog/what-ever-happened-to-webrings/

> A webring contained a list of websites that all contained a similar theme. A single moderator — or Ringmaster — was in charge of approving and adding each website to a webring. Sites participating in a webring would then place the ring’s navigation box at the bottom of their site, which would bring visitors to whichever site was next or previous in the list (depending on which option they selected). If a visitor was on the last site in the list and clicked next, the list would loop back and load the first website in the list, in essence forming a ring of websites.

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

#80

Post by outime »

samb1729 wrote: post #59
Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I prefer getopt because it's more succinct and more standardized. I made sr.ht :) I can't give you an unbiased opinion, but naturally I think it's quite nice given that I designed it explicitly to suit my needs. Check out the marketing page for some more details: https://sourcehut.org

Might I ask whether you have any intention to revisit this issue? https://todo.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/todo.sr.ht/176

That was a disappointing response. The overall design is ok but this really felt out of place. Hopefully he realizes that and stops blaming the “puritanical jerks” as he himself said.
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