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It'd be interesting to see an open source competitor to Medium; developments in and usage of markdown editors is an added bonus!
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Agree that everyone should have their own site but we just want to create another corner on the web where you can read and write interesting, well presented content and find jobs etc. You're also welcome to cross-post to Able to help build an audience to your blog too. One thing we don't want to do is bait and switch users like other venture funded companies have done recently. We just want to build a good community…
I would encourage you to release this under a free software license like GPL. People are increasingly skeptical of "platforms" and proprietary licensing.
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Yes, we want to support this too and will be looking into it.
Maybe blocks that can render LaTeX?
I've played with ProseMirror and math support before, so this is what it about looks like. [1] https://imgur.com/a/rV2AATD
Is 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?
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
For the less-technical crowd, you can put markdown files in a Gitlab repo. You don't even have to know how to use Git. You can create and edit files without leaving the website.
I am bookmarking your site because I will be using the jobs board.
As far as the blogging part is concerned, I would rather use Medium because it has a bigger network and, more importantly, I do not trust your platform.
I don't think "we don't take VC money" and "no ads" will help you build trust. It's good that you don't do those things, but that's just avoiding bad stuff. As far as building trust goes, I think you have to actively do good stuff too. In my eyes the jobs board helps with that.
Just my 2¢. Best of luck.
It's always seemed odd to me that there isn't a hosted service with a headless web/mobile CMS, compiling to a static site, that saves to a few common backends (s3, etc.), with reasonable pricing (i.e. not $10+/mo). Let the user pay for their own storage.
Gitlab does that for free, with free storage. Just fork any of the existing example projects: https://gitlab.com/pages