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Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by thangngoc89 »

jonas21 wrote: post #101
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/

For other bear-themed writing tools: * https://bear.app/

I can't recommend Bear enough if you're using all Apple devices. I've used many note taking app but Bear is the only thing that gives me Markdown note taking + not getting in my way of writing. I especially like the infintely nested tag of Bear, such a time saver when you can drop a #hastag/anywhere/with/inifitely/nested/hierachy .

Disclamer: I'm not affliated with Bear in anyway, just a happy customer.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by ordinaryradical »

ubac wrote: post #52
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…

"All writing" is probably too broad, but I think there's an interesting "meet-in-the-middle" solution where the site is a kind of syndication machine that is creating traffic between separately hosted blogs.

I appreciate people wanting to own their own writing, having permanence of data assured, etc. so this is probably worth thinking about. At the same time, many outside the tech world don't want the overhead of hosting or setting up their own blog.

I wonder if a hybrid would be best? Host yourself option or host-by-us option, with a pricing structure that accords.

The point is really to maximize ones ability to traverse between writers on subjects that interest you, so the physical location of the data is secondary.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by ordinaryradical »

mumblemumble wrote: post #63
ubac wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 Cr…

Yeah, this is very true. I may have overstated my initial idea. When I think more about it, maybe what I'm looking for is handcrafted curation, but that let's anyone share their curation speccs and discover relevant things to curate from. To me, that suggests some kind of algorithmic component, maybe in the form of search, voting, etc., but I wouldn't necessarily want the whole thing driven by either machine or mob.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by ver_ture »

basch wrote: post #50
ubac wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really recommend https://write.as/ for those looking for minimalism with a bit more styling

There's really nothing more minimal than https://telegra.ph It just gets out of the way.

It has consecutive urls, relinquishes your drop of privacy.

.../140 -> test test test

.../141 -> My personal depression diary entry no.3 ...

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by schwartzworld »

basch wrote: post #50
ubac wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really recommend https://write.as/ for those looking for minimalism with a bit more styling

There's really nothing more minimal than https://telegra.ph It just gets out of the way.

My text editor with hand-coded HTML begs to differ

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by ver_ture »

chadlavi wrote: post #66
MattGaiser wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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;`

Screens have high enough resolution for serifs nowadays, there's no need to strain the eyes with sans serif anymore online.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by mmm_grayons »

karlding wrote: post #59
jitl wrote: post #2

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

It's also a tool that helps generate a JSON compilation database [0] for Clang Tooling. [0] https://github.com/rizsotto/Bear

Thanks for linking that. I've been using the compile commands for autocompletion in vim, so it's nice to know I'm not tied to cmake for that.
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