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Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by robotmay »

I like it. I actually built my own platform last year in a similar vein (https://senryu.pub) but made a few different trade-offs; I allowed myself a couple of fonts (which make up most of the page size), but I can very much appreciate going even further towards minimalism. Mine's a slow-burn project that I go back to every now and then and just add small daft features just for myself, as nobody else uses the bloody thing (probably because I put a paywall on it to stop spam). Poem formatting? Absolutely.

I'm all for more platforms like this existing, I'd love a return to a legible, lightweight internet.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by torgoguys »

HermanMartinus wrote: post #68
torgoguys wrote: post #58

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. :-)

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.

Nah, I actually like the Garamond. I was referring more to adding a bit more line-height as mentioned in the (then) top comment.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by lazyjones »

toastercat wrote: post #60

For other similar-ish related tools/writing platforms: * https://write.as/ * http://txti.es/ * http://telegra.ph/ * https://txt.fyi/ * https://verbatim.link/ * https://www.pastery.net/ * http://ix.io/ * https://commentpara.de/ * https://rwtxt.com/ * https://distbin.com/

I'm surprised nobody has attempted to put the content in the URL yet (to display on a static page with styling using JS [needs a tag filter...] to insert an URL parameter into some node). It would accommodate at least 2KB of text, local caching and fast hosting all in one.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by sunnylemon »

eterm wrote: post #22

I'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.

I actually just wrote a blog post about this topic: https://videoinu.com/blog/firefox-reader-view-heuristics

In a nutshell, the paragraphs (

tags) do not contain enough text to contribute to the readability score. Reader view heuristics rewards paragraphs of at least 140 characters.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by chadlavi »

chrismorgan wrote: post #70
chadlavi wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I guess I specifically mean the default browser serif font. There are sites that consciously choose a serif typeface to convey some sense of "we are serious content," but you may notice that none of them use the default browser serif font (except as a last-step fallback).

If I see default browser serif, my immediate thought is "either this is an amateur or something is broken."

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by abnry »

lazyload wrote: post #5

I 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.

Yes, styling is a must for me. If I ever were to blog, I'd also require images and latex rendering. But that's about it.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by mark-r »

HermanMartinus wrote: post #15
jitl wrote: post #2

“Bear” is a well-known note-taking and writing app https://bear.app/

I was trying to play on the word "bare". Yeah, I realised this a bit too late

I have to say I like the character based logo. Inventive use of Unicode I'm guessing.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by AnonC »

What are the limits on number of posts, post size, images...? What is it going to be priced at? Will there continue to be a free tier if/when it becomes paid? Sorry, I can’t try any platform that doesn’t answer questions about its future. I hope you’d provide more details on the homepage.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by nvr219 »

abnry wrote: post #87
lazyload wrote: post #5

I 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.

Yes, styling is a must for me. If I ever were to blog, I'd also require images and latex rendering. But that's about it.

As long as it's compatible with browser "Reader modes" I don't care because that's the first thing I tap when I'm reading a blog post anyway.
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