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Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by kickscondor »

johntash wrote: post #275
kickscondor wrote: post #220

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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?

Well, it’s my opinion that technology can’t solve the discovery problem. I know we want it to. But at some point the technology has to evaluate the content. It can’t - so technology gives the content to humans to evaluate. However, it can’t evaluate the humans’ capabilities. :/

You discover a directory like mine just as you would discover any other link, johntash - by coming across it as you read, perhaps on Hacker News. If there were more directories, they would be easier to discover. They happen to be richer discovery points than a normal blog or profile page.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by _0vzt »

jedberg wrote: post #200
regynald wrote: post #197

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https://blot.im/ might be close to what you want. I think it's run on ec2 instances though.

It's not self hosted.

It’s close to being conveniently self-hostable:

https://github.com/davidmerfield/Blot

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by adnanh »

I've had a similar idea after looking for something like this to use as a log for interesting stuff that I found on the internet. I ended up building a small ruby app for this (https://github.com/adnanh/mikro) and it powers my (b)log which is still alive at http://blog.hajdarevic.net/

Since then, I've wanted to enhance it with URL unfurling, link preserving in terms of creating a snapshot of the linked URLs, smart bookmarklet etc... but never got around to doing it, as life tends to get busy, and other things take priority over that :-(

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Post by _jal »

edbaskerville wrote: post #250
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I've been aware of these for around 20 years, I've not seen that nomenclature growing in popularity. It doesn't help that it just sounds silly to my ears.

Nail on the head. They're just weird, at least in the context of English phonetics. That's the reason I discourage their adoption. I'd much rather we just all agree that kilobyte means 2^10 bytes. Or find words that aren't weird. If I remember correctly, a big motivation for this change was the fact that disk manufacturers intentionally used base-10 definitions so they could advertise larger numbers for disk capacity…

Sure; there are a lot of distinctions that serve to frustrate casual users. And this is hardly limited to computers - the rant that sticks in my memory is that of a family friend being absolutely infuriated that nuts and bolts can be the same size but have different threads.

The difference does matter, though, and matters a lot when you're working with storage at any scale. So people tend to use the right labels just to avoid ambiguity.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by manigandham »

jedberg wrote: post #271
manigandham wrote: post #269

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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.

Then what is "self-hosted" supposed to be? What CMS are you going to use? Where's that going to run?

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by jedberg »

manigandham wrote: post #285
jedberg wrote: post #271

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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.

Then what is "self-hosted" supposed to be? What CMS are you going to use? Where's that going to run?

Control.

With self hosting I can control the code, what it does, the cost, where it stores data, how backups are made, when new versions and updates are deployed, etc.

It’s always a trade off on control, and my comfort point is “on AWS”.

For some people they want their own servers. Some people want to own the network block. It’s just what level of comfort you have with each type of control.

I don’t know what CMS I’m going to use, that was my question. Which one operates the way I want?

It’ll run on AWS lambda or an equivalent.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by kfk »

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.

This is great. Will you allow other "friends" to create their own directories to? I'd like to contribute.

Just found: https://www.kleptones.com/blog/2012/06/28/hectic-city-15-pat...

Thanks!

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Post by manigandham »

jedberg wrote: post #286
manigandham wrote: post #285

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Then what is "self-hosted" supposed to be? What CMS are you going to use? Where's that going to run?

Control. With self hosting I can control the code, what it does, the cost, where it stores data, how backups are made, when new versions and updates are deployed, etc. It’s always a trade off on control, and my comfort point is “on AWS”. For some people they want their own servers. Some people want to own the network block. It’s just what level of comfort you have with each type of control. I don’t know what CMS I’m…

Then try Netlify's CMS: https://www.netlifycms.org/

It's a single-file app. You can host it yourself, and it edits static files in a github/gitlab repo. The deployment after push and hosting with custom domains and CDN is already handled by Netlify. And it's all free.

If you use Jekyl then you can skip Netlify and Github will build and serve your site.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by jedberg »

manigandham wrote: post #288
jedberg wrote: post #286

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Control. With self hosting I can control the code, what it does, the cost, where it stores data, how backups are made, when new versions and updates are deployed, etc. It’s always a trade off on control, and my comfort point is “on AWS”. For some people they want their own servers. Some people want to own the network block. It’s just what level of comfort you have with each type of control. I don’t know what CMS I’m…

Then try Netlify's CMS: https://www.netlifycms.org/ It's a single-file app. You can host it yourself, and it edits static files in a github/gitlab repo. The deployment after push and hosting with custom domains and CDN is already handled by Netlify. And it's all free. If you use Jekyl then you can skip Netlify and Github will build and serve your site.

Netlify is awesome but isn’t self hosted. I don’t control the deployment and I don’t have access to the logs.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by chrismorgan »

mark-r wrote: post #116
chrismorgan wrote: post #97

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At small sizes , like 8–13px, sans-serifs look better than serifs. And user interfaces and websites used to be that size. But for 16px and up, which is what websites of today use, serifs are perfectly fine even on 1× displays (though sure, they’ll look better still on higher-DPI displays, but so will sans-serifs). I should clarify that it depends on the font. Sans-serifs tend to have fairly even stroke width, but ser…

Are you sure that "websites of today" use 16px or larger universally? HN appears to use 9pt Verdana, which I believe is equivalent to 12px on my Windows system if my math is correct. Georgia is a terribly underrated font. I'm sure it's heavily hinted to look good at small sizes, but even at large sizes it has an elegance that is lacking in e.g. Times Roman.

HN is not a website of today. It’s a website of 2007. Its visual style has not changed at all since then.
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