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Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by MH15 » Tue, May 26, 2020, 8:42 PM UTC

fevangelou wrote: post #145

qwerty456127 wrote: post #141

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You probably don't know how many people still use slow, expensive and limited (often every part extreme) connections and old CPUs. And even on a Core i7 with a 100 Mbit/s channel many websites still feel slow.

Perhaps in rural areas in Africa and Asia. But these areas are plagued by poverty either way. Reading John Doe's blog on a 5KB web page is probably their last concern... :)

There are plenty of people in the developed US who have unreliable and slow internet. Consumers benefit from lightweight products. This is not really difficult to understand.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by ogre_codes » Tue, May 26, 2020, 8:42 PM UTC

brians wrote: post #148

thangngoc89 wrote: post #131

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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.

I could have written exactly the above until a Bear sync bug ate my notes. Beat customer support had nothing to offer but condolences. It was during an iOS beta on one of the devices, so perhaps not their fault—but I’ve been unwilling to pay since.

> It was during an iOS beta on one of the devices

Bear uses iCloud storage which has on multiple occasions trashed people's data during iOS beta periods. It's not "Bear Sync", it's just another iCloud beta sync problem. If you value your data, don't use iOS betas. It's that simple.

If they had the choice, many developers would disable their apps on beta devices because of issues like yours.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by boomlinde » Tue, May 26, 2020, 8:43 PM UTC

HermanMartinus wrote: post #13

varlogix wrote: post #11

Love the "early internet" feel of it, and of course the speed. The domain name could be improved, considering that it will be part of every hosted blog. Something more concise, or rolls off the tongue easier.

I tried to get a better domain. I tried so hard. tiny.blog, bare.blog, bear.blog, petite.blog, smol.site, etc, etc.... Small domains are competitive if you're on a shoestring budget :P

I scored text.garden a while ago which in retrospect would have been great for something like this.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by 1f60c » Tue, May 26, 2020, 8:43 PM UTC

chrisweekly wrote: post #180

1f60c wrote: post #172

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Notion is amazing, and they recently removed the cap on the amount of "blocks" you're allowed to use on the free plan[0]. No affiliation, just a happy customer. :-) [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23236786

Agreed, Notion is awesome. I have even stronger feelings about Roam though. Notion is "better" than just abt anything else like it, whereas Roam is different -- there is nothing else like it.

Roam as in https://roamresearch.com/?

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by uxamanda » Tue, May 26, 2020, 8:45 PM UTC

apozem wrote: post #105

rgrs wrote: post #37

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Try Joplin. As a heavy user of markdown for notes, i wanted something cross-platform across OSes and devices. Joplin fits my requirements perfectly.

I want to love Joplin (open source! markdown!) but I just can't get past how ugly it is. Its iPhone app is just a horrendous mishmash of colors and non-native UI elements.

Joplin is cool because you can add your own css to customize the desktop app. I realize not every is interested in doing that, but I’ve been an advocate once I tweaked the styles to my liking [0]. Agree with you that the mobile app styles are very rough, but the community is very active and open to suggestions / improvements [1].

[0] https://github.com/amandamcg/joplin-theme [1] https://discourse.joplinapp.org/

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by caiobegotti » Tue, May 26, 2020, 8:50 PM UTC

Advogato feelings here.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by millette » Tue, May 26, 2020, 8:50 PM UTC

brainzap wrote: post #142

Does it have RSS?

https://github.com/HermanMartinus/bearblog/issues/2

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by jedberg » Tue, May 26, 2020, 8:51 PM UTC

Things I would like in a blogging platform:

* Generate lightweight static website

* Good clean default CSS so I don't have to mess with it

* Automatically upload website to CDN and trigger expirations as necessary.

* Self-hosted

* Runs on AWS Lambda or any other Function as a Service equivilient

* Has a super lightweight CMS that I can easily use on both desktop and mobile, so if I have ideas I can start writing anywhere, and can also make minor corrections to existing posts while on the go.

* The CMS can be a frontend to git, but git is hard to use on mobile, so I don't want the CMS to just be git.

If anyone knows of something that meets these requirements I'd be super grateful!

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by mosselman » Tue, May 26, 2020, 8:58 PM UTC

shrutipathak wrote: post #115

jitl wrote: post #2

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

Ditto. I thought this is a new product by bear. Got me excited for a bit. I wonder if trademark would kick in later for this.

What a world we live in that we have to worry about trademark issues for the name of one of the most common animal names a child could think of.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by panopticon » Tue, May 26, 2020, 8:59 PM UTC

lazyjones wrote: post #83

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.

This was posted on HN a while ago: https://github.com/jstrieb/urlpages

Not blogging specific, but it allows you to encode web content into the URL.