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Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by jedberg »

manigandham wrote: post #269
jedberg wrote: post #188

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 anyw…

I'd advise just running Wordpress or Ghost. Even a small VPS is more than enough scale and you get a working blog out of the box with easy extensibility for the future. And you can still use a CDN in front. People think a static site is enough without realizing SEO, RSS feeds, comments, etc, are all things you might need and would have to rebuild yourself.

There’s nothing Wordpress can do that you can’t do with a static site. Even comments can be easily bolted on.

I don’t want to pay $5/mo for a VPS when I can run my whole site on AWS for 32 cents a month.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by harikb »

jedberg wrote: post #208
harikb wrote: post #205

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If you have static generated website and a CDN, why do you need Lambda/Function? Or do you mean these as a set to pick and chose from?

The lambda would generate the static website after I type words into a webpage and then upload that site to the CDN. It would also be the code behind the web page where I write the words.

Looking at your profile, I get the sense you are trolling :) but I have a bad time imagining the need for the elasticity of lambda for those single-user actions.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by johntash »

1f60c wrote: post #172
PascLeRasc wrote: post #108

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I'm only a week into using it, but check out Notion. I really love it so far. The UI has blown me away in both beauty and how it gets out of the way.

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

I wish Notion had a self-hosted version. I store a lot of things in Joplin (previously Evernote) that I'm just not comfortable having on 3rd party servers :(

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by johntash »

kickscondor wrote: post #220
bachmeier wrote: post #38

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What I want is a Yahoo-style directory for blogs. Blog owners can put their blog in exactly one category. Users can star the blogs they like, similar to GitHub, and identify the low quality click generators/marketing blogs. I personally find Medium to be a horrible way to find content. Maybe it works for new content, if that's what you're after.

I run a Yahoo-style directory for blogs and articles I find: https://href.cool/ . I'd personally like to see more personal directories rather than big monolithic directories of everything - those tend to collect spam.

I like this idea, but I feel like it's shifting the problem to "how do you discover cool directories made by other people?"

Maybe an idea would be something like what you have, but using some sort of standard that could be pulled down similar to rss feeds?

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by johntash »

harikb wrote: post #273
jedberg wrote: post #208

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The lambda would generate the static website after I type words into a webpage and then upload that site to the CDN. It would also be the code behind the web page where I write the words.

Looking at your profile, I get the sense you are trolling :) but I have a bad time imagining the need for the elasticity of lambda for those single-user actions.

I'm not sure whether it's what they meant, but I could see the "admin" cms portion being hosted on lambda.

You'd load a static editor page, write your content, and then post it to a lambda endpoint. That lambda would then generate static pages for your content and push it to s3 or wherever.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by jedberg »

harikb wrote: post #273
jedberg wrote: post #208

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The lambda would generate the static website after I type words into a webpage and then upload that site to the CDN. It would also be the code behind the web page where I write the words.

Looking at your profile, I get the sense you are trolling :) but I have a bad time imagining the need for the elasticity of lambda for those single-user actions.

It’s not the elasticity that matters, it’s the fact that I’d only have to pay for it to run when I want to update the site.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by enz »

wodenokoto wrote: post #209
mark-r wrote: post #88

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

It’s a fairly well known koamoji. Kaomoji is the horizontal counterpart to smileys and they can get very creative. If you set your iPhone to Japanese keyboard it comes with hundreds of these build in ︎('ω'︎ )

Pro tip for iPhone users: juste type かおもじ (kaomoji) and slide the suggestion bar: you have all the kaomojis you want.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by goodmachine »

manigandham wrote: post #268
gen220 wrote: post #77

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The success of search engines prompted Yahoo to ditch its original product (the curation and categorization of the web) in favor of its competitors automated (and thereby game-able) crawl-index-search approaches. Now, decades later, there seems to be a shared yearning for the curated web, perhaps in response to the low signal:noise ratio of search. Isn't it funny, how the world works in cycles? Curated search (domain…

Wikipedia doesn't struggle for funding. It just happens to be like many other organizations that eat up whatever funding they get regardless.

Not sure why you're getting downvotes. Wikipedia looks to be well funded indeed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by Jaruzel »

bachmeier wrote: post #191
gen220 wrote: post #77

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The success of search engines prompted Yahoo to ditch its original product (the curation and categorization of the web) in favor of its competitors automated (and thereby game-able) crawl-index-search approaches. Now, decades later, there seems to be a shared yearning for the curated web, perhaps in response to the low signal:noise ratio of search. Isn't it funny, how the world works in cycles? Curated search (domain…

I was probably one of the last users of their original directory. It was my browser homepage until the day they removed it. I eventually stopped using it because it didn't keep up. These days, search is for many purposes completely useless. If I want to find someone to do work on my house, the last place I'll go is Google. It's truly amazing just how worthless the results are. You'll get results from Michigan and Flo…

> You'll get results from Michigan and Florida and Oregon all for the same search, in the same town, and claiming to be a local business.

It's worse if you are non-US. Google seems to think that anywhere in the UK is local to me for businesses, and that's AFTER I've added loads of filters to stop American results from showing.

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