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Re: Show HN: Able – an alternative to Medium

#81
post #48

100 on Lighthouse is something to be very proud of. I love this service.

Did you get 100 on lighthouse? For some reason I'm getting 59 on performance on this post itself and 93 on the post he indicated (although everything is around 100 as well).

Regardless, it's a great feat.

Re: Show HN: Able – an alternative to Medium

#82
The oauth2 requirements for twitter signup are quite aggressive.

* See Tweets from your timeline (including protected Tweets) as well as your Lists and collections.

* See your Twitter profile information and account settings.

* See accounts you follow, mute, and block.

* Follow and unfollow accounts for you.

* Update your profile and account settings.

* Post and delete Tweets for you, and engage with Tweets posted by others (Like, un-Like, or reply to a Tweet, Retweet, etc.) for you.

* Create, manage, and delete Lists and collections for you.

* Mute, block, and report accounts for you.

* See your email address.

Re: Show HN: Able – an alternative to Medium

#83
Although this seems great, use Ghost. The editing interface is unreal and the SEO/RSS/integrations are plentiful. You can customize it however you like, but there's some nice templates they have for free as well. I use it on Docker and port it around servers all the time (had some server problems here and there and it's super easy to port it using docker to different servers).

The best part is you don't have to worry if Able.bio goes away one day. Self-host will only go away on your account.

Actually running https://sdan.xyz/blog on it. (I personally love how the design and fonts come together... I created this design and it's available on Github)

Re: Show HN: Able – an alternative to Medium

#84
I think folks might be more comfortable switching to this if they understood the business model (or philanthropic finding source). This platform will only have value if it scales (and therefore has substantial costs). How will those costs be covered? What about paying you for your time you spend building and maintaining it?

Looking forward to learning more about your plans, and having an alternative to the existing ecosystem.

Re: Show HN: Able – an alternative to Medium

#85

Just roll your own blog already. If there's one thing these services reinforce over and over again - it's that they'll change their terms over time. Own your site. Own your data. Put it all on your own terms. If you need help setting one up (unlikely for this crowd), you can have one made for you for free here. https://StartABlog.com/free-blog

Use Ghost. It's self-hosted and gives all the functionality you need for beginners and advanced users alike.

Running it on https://sdan.xyz/blog and it's fantastic. I get RSS/subscriptions (https://sdan.xyz/subscribe)/podcasts/a whole plethora of integrations super easily.

And since it's self hosted, you don't need to worry about it ever going down (unlike if Able.bio ever does).

Also, Lighthouse gives Ghost blogs top scores as well :).

Re: Show HN: Able – an alternative to Medium

#86
post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> For me it's a reflexive response at this point [...] Q: Why would one not install NoScript and get rid of these "interruptions" forever?

Because images on Medium wouldn’t load without JS.

I've just loaded a random Medium link in FF with NoScript enabled and the inline images look just fine.

Q: Am I missing something?

Re: Show HN: Able – an alternative to Medium

#87

The oauth2 requirements for twitter signup are quite aggressive. * See Tweets from your timeline (including protected Tweets) as well as your Lists and collections. * See your Twitter profile information and account settings. * See accounts you follow, mute, and block. * Follow and unfollow accounts for you. * Update your profile and account settings. * Post and delete Tweets for you, and engage with Tweets posted by…

Apologies, we’ll tighten that up. We only want social auth to streamline onboarding.

Re: Show HN: Able – an alternative to Medium

#88
post #85

Just roll your own blog already. If there's one thing these services reinforce over and over again - it's that they'll change their terms over time. Own your site. Own your data. Put it all on your own terms. If you need help setting one up (unlikely for this crowd), you can have one made for you for free here. https://StartABlog.com/free-blog

Use Ghost. It's self-hosted and gives all the functionality you need for beginners and advanced users alike. Running it on https://sdan.xyz/blog and it's fantastic. I get RSS/subscriptions ( https://sdan.xyz/subscribe)/podcasts/a whole plethora of integrations super easily. And since it's self hosted, you don't need to worry about it ever going down (unlike if Able.bio ever does). Also, Lighthouse gives Ghost blogs t…

I was super impressed by how fast your blog loaded, but then I got caught in some sort of loop on this page [1], which won’t load.

1: https://blog.suryad.com/datascience/

Re: Show HN: Able – an alternative to Medium

#89

I think folks might be more comfortable switching to this if they understood the business model (or philanthropic finding source). This platform will only have value if it scales (and therefore has substantial costs). How will those costs be covered? What about paying you for your time you spend building and maintaining it? Looking forward to learning more about your plans, and having an alternative to the existing e…

Hey there, all that info is here in our manifesto: https://able.bio/about

Hope that helps.

Re: Show HN: Able – an alternative to Medium

#90
post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Use Ghost. It's self-hosted and gives all the functionality you need for beginners and advanced users alike. Running it on https://sdan.xyz/blog and it's fantastic. I get RSS/subscriptions ( https://sdan.xyz/subscribe)/podcasts/a whole plethora of integrations super easily. And since it's self hosted, you don't need to worry about it ever going down (unlike if Able.bio ever does). Also, Lighthouse gives Ghost blogs t…

I was super impressed by how fast your blog loaded, but then I got caught in some sort of loop on this page [1], which won’t load. 1: https://blog.suryad.com/datascience/

My bad! Made this post a while back and I used 10+ repl.it embedded editors.

Although it does seem to load eventually, I should update it to use some better editor that loads faster!

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