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Re: Show HN: Able – an alternative to Medium

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Post by Rainymood »

rubbingalcohol wrote: post #76
new_here wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

>People are increasingly skeptical of "platforms" and proprietary licensing.

And with people you mean ... ? The general public (i.e. "people") don't really care much about their privacy.

Re: Show HN: Able – an alternative to Medium

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Post by Vinnl »

new_here wrote: post #38
Vinnl wrote: post #36

RSS support is nice - even better would be if they were also exposed in the metadata [1] so that my feed extension can autodetect it. [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/RSS/Getting...

Great tip, will definitely add that!

Thanks!

Re: Show HN: Able – an alternative to Medium

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Post by jjjbokma »

I decided to roll my own blog [0] instead of using medium. Moreover, I wrote the static blog generator myself (2 versions, a Python and a Perl version [1]). I have been blogging daily for over 190 days now, and it feels good.

[0] http://plurrrr.com/

[1] https://github.com/john-bokma/tumblelog

Re: Show HN: Able – an alternative to Medium

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Post by fiatjaf »

joelrunyon wrote: post #29

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

That startablog.com thing is terrible does bad and very expensive recommendations, recommend expensive services, and then asks you to pay themselves to build a blog for you that will rely on all these services with no guarantee for a large price.

If that's what starting a blog looks like I think I'll start recommending people to Medium or Able now.

Re: Show HN: Able – an alternative to Medium

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Post by 1337shadow »

georgeoliver wrote: post #127
1337shadow wrote: post #68

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Gitlab does that for free, with free storage. Just fork any of the existing example projects: https://gitlab.com/pages

Whenever I've looked at Gitlab/GH pages, Netlify, etcetera in the past I haven't found a good web/mobile CMS to use with them. Most pro options are too expensive for a personal blog. However ellinokon's suggestion for Siteleaf looks promising.

Are you saying that you didn't find one example out of the 20 examples they provide on the link i posted (octopress, nanoc, pelican, hyde, hexo, hugo, jekyll, metalsmith, vuepress, plain-html ...) that supports mobile, nor has a mobile compatible theme available ? The gitlab pages option is free even with a custom domain and https.

Re: Show HN: Able – an alternative to Medium

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Post by kixiQu »

LordDragonfang wrote: post #70
close04 wrote: post #63

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> all non-tech Medium blogs > link to one eg. single useful non-tech Linkedin blog I agree with the first part of your comment. Narrowing the focus to a specific demo makes it far easier to provide exactly what your target audience needs, thus a higher quality product/service. But I have doubts about the second part. You're classifying everything in 2 categories, "tech" and "non-tech" (I assume non-IT here) so this p…

If we expand "tech" to mean "technical" rather than "technology", those statements become much more likely to be true. People who have skills in some sort of technical background seem much more likely to have interesting insights than people who do not. HN loves to post Slate Star Codex, for example, and I doubt most here have the skills in psych to effectively evaluate his writings as correct.

Your second statement might more accurately be formulated as "I tend to find the insights of people with a technical background more interesting", or even "I am more capable of understanding what is interesting about the insights of people with some sort of technical background even if it is not my own." Otherwise, you're claiming that there's something objectively "uninteresting" about, like, the majority of human insights that civilizations have ever had and found valuable.

Re: Show HN: Able – an alternative to Medium

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Post by georgeoliver »

1337shadow wrote: post #137
georgeoliver wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Whenever I've looked at Gitlab/GH pages, Netlify, etcetera in the past I haven't found a good web/mobile CMS to use with them. Most pro options are too expensive for a personal blog. However ellinokon's suggestion for Siteleaf looks promising.

Are you saying that you didn't find one example out of the 20 examples they provide on the link i posted (octopress, nanoc, pelican, hyde, hexo, hugo, jekyll, metalsmith, vuepress, plain-html ...) that supports mobile, nor has a mobile compatible theme available ? The gitlab pages option is free even with a custom domain and https.

I don't mean a mobile compatible theme, but a CMS mobile app to edit and create content. So something like Netlify CMS and Siteleaf.

Re: Show HN: Able – an alternative to Medium

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Post by jangliss »

new_here wrote: post #26
jangliss wrote: post #20

Great 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.

We'll charge businesses to advertise their vacancies, so we don't have to get in the way of developers/users. It should ask you what notifications you'd like to receive during the onboarding process and you can just check the 'Digest' box. Did that not show up for you?

It didn't, but I ended up finding it in the settings. Cheers!
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