Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by stavros » Tue, May 26, 2020, 4:22 PM UTC

I love that this exists, I wish I'd thought of it first, and I like you for making it.

I think you should improve the default stylesheet a bit, I like http://matejlatin.github.io/Gutenberg/.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

#52

Post by ubac » Tue, May 26, 2020, 4:24 PM UTC

ordinaryradical wrote: post #34

Since HN seems to be on a blog-kick lately, I'll repost the idea that I'm still waiting for someone to build: A blogverse of some kind that allows for algorithmic discoverability & aggregation (ala Medium) without the bullshit/terrible UX. The real value proposition of Medium is that a well-made aggregator benefits readers and writers alike. Readers find more authors they like, writers find more audience. There are a…

A question for you (and everyone): how important do you think it is that the algorithmic discoverability be married to a single platform/aggregator? What if you just had better algorithmic discoverability across all writing on the internet, regardless of where it's hosted?

I get that that would miss some of the benefits you mention (shared comment logins for example) but I'm wondering if people think it would capture 80% of the same benefits or, like, <50%. And I don't think for the discoverability to work there's any innate reason it has to be restricted to a single blogging platform.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

#53

Post by HermanMartinus » Tue, May 26, 2020, 4:25 PM UTC

azhenley wrote: post #42

Landing page is straight to the point, describes what is different about Bear, and links to an example blog. Great! The only question I still have is what is the editor like?

I've added it to my notes, thanks. Maybe a full demo interface would be a good idea

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by SquareWheel » Tue, May 26, 2020, 4:25 PM UTC

HermanMartinus wrote: post #41

SquareWheel wrote: post #33

The comparisons are all to large content management systems. However this seems like a better fit for static site generators. Would it be better to compare to Jekyll, Hugo, etc?

Sure, serving static files will always be the fastest, but this is for people looking for a service like Medium, or Blogger, where there's no need to handle anything locally.

I see, thanks. I guess in my mind I was thinking of Wordpress as .org, not .com.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

#55

Post by Antecedent » Tue, May 26, 2020, 4:25 PM UTC

Change the font from Garamond and that will eliminate 50% of the style complaints.

I’ve always found Garamond text online hard on my eyes.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

#56

Post by chrismorgan » Tue, May 26, 2020, 4:27 PM UTC

Heads up: it doesn’t have no JavaScript at present, because Cloudflare’s email protection system is in place. (I hate that thing. It mangles non-email addresses all the time if they look even vaguely like an email address, e.g. a package with version number “foo@1.2.3”. Penalising users that disable JavaScript.)

https://herman.bearblog.dev/ contains a “Get in touch” mailto: link that gets ruined, and the following script is added:

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

#57

Post by HermanMartinus » Tue, May 26, 2020, 4:31 PM UTC

chrismorgan wrote: post #56

Heads up: it doesn’t have no JavaScript at present, because Cloudflare’s email protection system is in place. (I hate that thing. It mangles non-email addresses all the time if they look even vaguely like an email address, e.g. a package with version number “foo@1.2.3”. Penalising users that disable JavaScript.) https://herman.bearblog.dev/ contains a “Get in touch” mailto: link that gets ruined, and the following sc…

Ah shit. Turning it off. Thanks for the heads up

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

#58

Post by torgoguys » Tue, May 26, 2020, 4:33 PM UTC

This is cool!

As mentioned in other replies--some small styling tweaks for readability would be useful and would literally only cost bytes (on the order of the x-clacks-overhead on the page...)

If you're focusing on an extremely small page size, I'd prefer an external static, cached stylesheet than inlining all styling on every page load. That and a less complicated email obfuscator. :-)