> Firefox gets first-class support and is the primary browser we test in.
Wow. I would not have believed to ever read something like this for any service, ever again.
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#12I'm always glad to see competition in any space - especially anything that can keep the big boys (Medium!) in check. Kudos to you for giving this a shot! Although, while i wish you plenty of luck, the only way you're going to get my money is if/when you think about functions and features supporting things like POSSE or even better yet ActivityPub. The last few years have taught me that I'm not going to spend my money…
Thanks for the feedback! We're busy working on RSS imports right now and should have something up in a day or two. We're open to ActivityPub too but this might take a bit longer just because we're building Able in our spare time.
Ultimately, we want to create a great place for developers and then charge businesses to advertise their job vacancies to that community. Because we're self-funded we don't have pressure to grow at all costs but we'll need the support from the developer community if we want to turn this into a sustainable business.
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#13This is awesome! Especially for data science, Medium has a stranglehold on reliable articles. Excited to see an alternative, and one that actually seems to work better.
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#14Any plans to support custom domains?
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#15Any plans to support custom domains?
Yes.
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#16Great. When medium started throwing up paywalls we stopped using it. Anyone want to guess when these guys put up their first paywall? I'll go with January 2021.
It's becoming impossible to "pardon the interruption" with Medium when it happens multiple times a day. For me it's a reflexive response at this point, I don't even remember what they're asking for, my hand just moves to close the thing.
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#17Is there an RSS feed or am I just blind?
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#18Some pages have horizontal scrollbar on my mobile firefox, such as this https://able.bio/DavidLandup/password-encoding-with-spring-s...
Also, why .bio? Sounds like biotech web site.
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#19Is there an RSS feed or am I just blind?
Just for individual users at the moment. You can find them on user profiles or at the bottom of articles.
When we launch support for publications you'll be able to follow the publication feed too.
Would you want a feed for all articles?
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#20Great work - there needs to be a good place to write for free without the site then trying to sell the writing on. I've signed up to your newsletter but it took me a little scrabbling about to figure out how.