Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

bearblog.dev

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

301–310 of 358 posts

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

#301

Post by Ma8ee »

gitgud wrote: post #251
CydeWeys wrote: post #110

Small suggestion -- it seems like you're using the wrong units (or maybe abbreviations) for your displayed average page sizes. You're using lower-case b to indicate bits, but I suspect you mean upper-case B to indicate bytes? Also, the lower-case k is the correct prefix for 1,000, but lower case m is milli, or 1/000. You want M for mega, which is 1,000,000. Also if you really want to be precise you should consider wh…

This is a hilarious nit-pick. In the context of an internet blog describing average page-size, it's completely obvious that mb == MB ... not millibars... There's an insane amount of abbreviations and acronyms that have multiple meanings in different contexts. How many Wikipedia pages have [disambiguation] here ?...

It is not disambiguous, it is wrong. People will probably figure out what it is meant from the context, but it will slow them down. Are there really any reasons for using the wrong abbrevation other than lazyness or ignorance in this case?

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

#302

Post by manx »

bpodgursky wrote: post #80
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…

Personally, many of my good reading suggestions come from a trusted network. I trust a few people to only recommend content of a type that is high-quality and interesting to me. I do think it's important to have an element of discoverability for new content (otherwise there's no real way for a writer to bootstrap into visibility), but I think an important element is being able to follow and trust content aggregators.…

I also felt that I value personal recommendations much more than from huge aggregators or algorithms. I wanted to give these 1-to-1 recommendations a better vehicle than WhatsApp. So I created an app for it: https://onelink.to/listo It's still early, but already usable.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

#303

Post by pacifika »

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…

https://www.getlektor.com/

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

#304

Post by charliebrownau »

pier25 wrote: post #248
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…

Except for being "self hosted" and the "front end to git" we're building that as a commercial service. https://pluma.cloud/ Not much to show yet but you can follow us on Twitter for updates in a couple of months: https://twitter.com/plumacloud We're also considering providing our CMS as headless via an API so that you can connect it to your SSG and make your own template, host it wherever you want, etc, but we haven'…

[dead]

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

#305

Post by bignell »

beshrkayali wrote: post #292
bignell wrote: post #213

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, if they wanted to reserve the use of this common animal name across all industries, that’d be ridiculous, but it would seem pretty reasonable to worry about confusion between a cloud notes app and a cloud blog app. Certainly easier to think about it now than if this service takes off.

These are two different products. Blogging != note taking. And it doesn't seem like there's malicious intent. You can't use a generic name and expect others not to come up with the same idea.

Blogging !== note-taking, but you could definitely make the argument that a blog post is semantically a public note.

Apple, Fox, Shell, Target...any of these generic words ring a bell?

I’m sure there was no malicious intent, and it’s very possible that these two products will coexist without any further issue.

But as evidenced in this very thread there is the potential for confusion, which is the whole point of trademarks, and the reason why I’d have an easier time incorporating “Apple Surfboards“ than I would “Apple Keyboards”.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

#306

Post by pacifika »

Fiveplus wrote: post #260
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…

Quick Question: Why is self-hosted a thing that's highly desirable on HN?

You're not dependant on the service, when it goes away or gets bought.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

#307

Post by michaelmrose »

chrisweekly wrote: post #180
1f60c wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

What about org-roam

https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam

https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam-server

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

#308

Post by mosselman »

bignell wrote: post #305
beshrkayali wrote: post #292

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These are two different products. Blogging != note taking. And it doesn't seem like there's malicious intent. You can't use a generic name and expect others not to come up with the same idea.

Blogging !== note-taking, but you could definitely make the argument that a blog post is semantically a public note. Apple, Fox, Shell, Target...any of these generic words ring a bell? I’m sure there was no malicious intent, and it’s very possible that these two products will coexist without any further issue. But as evidenced in this very thread there is the potential for confusion, which is the whole point of trade…

I wasn't saying that it isn't possible. I am saying that it isn't reasonable.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

#309

Post by ivanhoe »

gen220 wrote: post #77
bachmeier wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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…

> Curated search (domains chosen by a set of humans with no financial conflicts of interests,

The problem is that the second it becomes an authoritative source, every spammer and marketer will start trying to game it, just like the SEO does now. Corruption is a huge problem with that approach. I'm old enough to remember how much influence yahoo categories editors had, and that many have asked for money to include you in the list, or they would use the position to simply block all the competition to their own sites. Same story is happening with Wikipedia, just it's more about personal wars and agendas instead of straight down racketeering.

Post reply on HN