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Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by 2038AD »

dktoao wrote: post #219
diarrhea wrote: post #204

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But is the SI system ambiguous? I almost never have to think about prefix v unit, it is always quite clear. Of course, strange combinations can occur (MNm - Meganewtonmeter as an example perhaps), but even those are unambiguous on second thought. Collisions seem to be most prevalent in "IT" units or for improper SI usage. But maybe the latter is really the reason for the former in this case: if people separated SI an…

If you are strictly sticking to the SI system of units, you should be fine. However, some of us work in industries and countries (You know where) that don't fully embrace SI, and mixing other systems with SI is common.

> some of us work in industries and countries (You know where) that don't fully embrace SI, and mixing other systems with SI is common

That's actually pretty much everywhere since metric and SI are two different things. Use of the litre is deprecated under SI.

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Post by gen220 »

ivanhoe wrote: post #309
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…

> 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…

Yeah, this is/was a real problem, and I don’t know if there’s a perfect solution. Anecdotally, @dang and friends do a very good job “editing” hn. They’re presumably paid well for their job, and seem to be passionate about their roles (thank you!).

I feel like the key to good curation might be good moderation. In other words, allow people to submit links to be on the list, but there must be humans to control for SEO and marketing spam (like there is on HN). Making those humans incorruptible is hard but maybe not impossible, if they’re well compensated and hired thoughtfully.

That being said, I’m doubtful that such a strategy of moderation would scale to hundreds of thousands (or tens of millions, shudder) of active voters and submitters. At some point, it would need to federate, with different mods owning different lists, and it would be difficult to avoid a devolution into Reddit.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by lrdd »

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'…

I think the mailto: link on your page is misspelt as mailt:

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Post by asiachick »

anderspitman wrote: post #212
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…

Sounds like you just need a way to modify a remote filesystem, then trigger a build step when you're done with the modifications. Assuming it was wrapped up in a nice UI, would that be missing any features you need? EDIT: Put more concretely, if you had a site hosted on S3, all you need is a way to modify the source files of that site, either directly or by modifying files in another directory and running a transform…

For me. Yes, it would be missing features. I have a self hosted blog, the source is on github, there's a trigger on commits.

This sucks compared to wordpress because the UX in wordpress is much better than github and especially because there is no "preview".

There's also no easy way to upload images etc. Certainly not as easy as wordpress.

I'm not going back. I'm just saying "modify the remote file system and trigger a build" is far from what I want.

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Post by asiachick »

alexktz wrote: post #227
jedberg wrote: post #214

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* Use a texteditor Where? On my iPhone? * Hit save Where does it save it to? * Let Hugo/Jekyll/Pelican/whatever compile Where does that happen? If I want to write on my phone it won't compile on my phone. * FTP/SCP onto a server From my phone? Also I specifically don't want to run a server, or more specifically, I don't want to pay for a server to run all the time. * It's a blog, nobody needs a CDN for that If you're…

Write on your phone, commit to git, have some CI build it and deploy. Simples :)

Have that. It sucks. UI on github sucks (need something I can access anywhere, not just my desktop, thought github might cut it, it doesn't). Uploading images sucks. No preview sucks. I suppose I could trigger to staging but that means I have to commit just to see a preview then wait for the entire process vs say wordpress which has instant preview.

Managing posts also sucks. I can pre-date posts but I can't at a glance get a list of posts with data about each one. Instead I just get a file listing and have to open each file and read its headers to see its metadata (date, title). Publish vs unpublished also suck. I have folders for my posts and another folder for drafts but moving something from one to the other is no fun compared to just checking a box in wordpress.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by myfonj »

st1ck wrote: post #300
myfonj wrote: post #295

I think that product template could use either `aria-hidden="true"` or `aria-label="bear"` HTML attributes for screen readers sake (and reconsider title and OG properties); not an expert in this area nor having SR at hand, but I guess that ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ would sound like 'pharyngeal voiced fricative - bullet - letter ain - bullet - glottal stop', what is hardly beneficial for screen reader users. Cool Unicode "picture" though…

Given that we can't expect everyone to use aria attributes, shouldn't screen readers just have a list of all widely used smileys with descriptive names (if they don't have it already)?

Good point and interesting question indeed. Finally tried simple speech synthesis demo [0] and in Win10 Firefox it really reads out some "basic ASCII-smileys" as their descriptive translation (and ignores any other set of non-alphabet characters, with few exceptions like underscores and asterisks).

Compiled all predefined textual emoticons offered by Gboard app in Android [1] and let the Narrate speech synthesis in Reader view (F9) read them aloud (uses presumably the same synthesis as example) - quite predictably most of them weren't heard at all, but those simple ones that were have surprised me.

So most probably there is no problem with that particular Unicode bear in screen readers after all.

[0] https://mdn.github.io/web-speech-api/speak-easy-synthesis/ [1] https://gist.githubusercontent.com/myfonj/f6b0ed1c783d16a79d...

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Post by kickscondor »

kfk wrote: post #287
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.

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!

Certainly - if you email me (kicks@kickscondor.com) a link to your directory, I will absolutely include it here: https://href.cool/Web/Directory

There is also some discussion about this kind of thing here: https://forum.indieseek.xyz Good to meet you, Alessio.

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Post by okasaki »

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…

You should learn to understand MB/mb/Mb/mB for megabyte and mbit for megabit. Anything else is inviting error and sorrow, because many people use it that way.

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Post by bthallplz »

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

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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…

> If I want anything, it's algorithmic filtering: Take the feeds I'm already subscribed to, and filter out the stuff that I tend to skip over without reading. Because my blog feed already delivers me a couple hours' worth of reading a day, so I can afford to be choosy.

I think that Newsblur does this.

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