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/ .
Ooh, this looks neat
Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform
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Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform
#62I appreciate the no-bs lightweight website sentiment as much as anyone, but I think there's also something to be said about drastically improving readability with some line-height and font styling.
Just change the font to something other than Garamond like Verdana. It is a nice font for paper, but not on websites.
Georgia is a decent serif that will typically be available.
Or just `font-family: serif` which will most commonly be Times New Roman or similar, but will be whatever we prefer for those few of us that set the default fonts.
Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform
#63Since 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…
Personally, I've started seeing algorithmic discoverability as an anti-feature that mainly serves the interests of the attention economy.
For my part, I want more long-form, thoughtful articles that offer an enriching read. Not only have we got a good decade or two's worth of experience showing that no algorithmic discovery system ever favors that kind of thing over content that's morally equivalent to Five Minute Crafts, but I've got a couple decades' worth of experience telling me that, since long-form bloggers tend to link each other quite a lot, never needed an algorithm to help me with discovery in the first place.
If I want anything, it's algorithmic filtering: Take the feeds I'm already subscribed to, and filter out the stuff that I tend to skip over without reading. Because my blog feed already delivers me a couple hours' worth of reading a day, so I can afford to be choosy.
Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform
#64I appreciate the no-bs lightweight website sentiment as much as anyone, but I think there's also something to be said about drastically improving readability with some line-height and font styling.
Coming soon, the http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ equivalent.
It's so hard to take a site with serif fonts seriously. It would be worth the 8th css declaration if the author added `font-family: sans-serif;`.
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#65I've not worked out when firefox reader view is visible and when it isn't, but for this blog it isn't, which is a shame because I find the chosen font unreadable.
yup, this is not a well done blogging platform.
simple != simplistic. "most minimal" != "minimum".
the 'just read' chrome/edge extension does work, and vastly improves readability of the produced html.
Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform
#66I appreciate the no-bs lightweight website sentiment as much as anyone, but I think there's also something to be said about drastically improving readability with some line-height and font styling.
Just change the font to something other than Garamond like Verdana. It is a nice font for paper, but not on websites.
Or better yet, `font-family: sans-serif;`
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#67So can I self-host this? The comparisons make no sense if I can't self-host the thing.
From the creator elsewhere in the comments:
> You can't self host it, otherwise you'd be better off writing your own basic HTML pages or using a static site generator. You can check out the source code on github though https://github.com/HermanMartinus/bearblog
Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform
#68This 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. :-)
Thanks for the awesome feedback. Yeah, I've come to realise that I'm the only person partial to Garamond ;)
I've turned off the email obfuscator (courtesy of cloudflare), and will be doing a bunch of styling improvements over the next week.
Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform
#69Change the font from Garamond and that will eliminate 50% of the style complaints. I’ve always found Garamond text online hard on my eyes.
Noted :)
Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Coming soon, the http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ equivalent.
It's so hard to take a site with serif fonts seriously. It would be worth the 8th css declaration if the author added `font-family: sans-serif;`.
I find that a curious attitude; I rather appreciate when I come across a site that uses a serif font. Sans-serifs are so terribly overused.