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Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by blobster »

manx wrote: post #297
new_here wrote: post #294

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You may be interested in https://able.bio Myself and a partner are building this, here are a few points: - It's a community to read and write about building things with technology - Clean, fast and light UX + Markdown editor ( https://able.bio/new ) - Bootstrapped with low overheads. No outside investment removes pressure to grow at all costs and the lapse on integrity that we see more of each day. - No data lock-in.…

Regarding the upvoting problem: Try using only downvotes and sort by downvotes*age. This should solve a lot of problems that usually come with upvoting systems, e.g. false negatives (good articles with bad score).

This would seem to just favor new posts with no votes over anything else.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by anderspitman »

asiachick wrote: post #324
anderspitman wrote: post #212

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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…

Sounds like previews is the main thing missing though? I don't consider github to be similar to a remote filesystem, because like you said certain simple things like uploading images and other arbitrary data isn't easy.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by dartf »

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.

I guess I'm a bit late to the party, but after reading your comment I hacked something together - https://x.rukin.me It's ugly and I haven't spent any time styling it or improving editor(it's just textarea) but it works as PoC. Also I've started it before I read comments that hashify exists, otherwise I would probably not do it ;)

Compared to hashify:

- it uses zlib to compress data, so it can actually contain much more content(if it's repetitive)

- it also supports password encryption of the content (don't know why, but my friend said it would be cool)

- only supports markdown(no html) as I haven't found any good js lib for html sanitization on client side

Examples:

- With password: https://bit.ly/3c7xkyb pass: wasted

- Some markdown: https://j.mp/2AivRYr

P.S. I still have no idea why anyone will use it

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by okasaki »

CydeWeys wrote: post #338
okasaki wrote: post #328

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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.

This is flat-out wrong. Most times when I see a lower-case b in software or documentation it really does mean bit, not byte. The standards exist for a reason and you should follow them. Anything else is inviting error and sorrow. And no one says "mbit".

No, you're wrong.

My network card is 1gbit/s, my disk space is 4TB, my internet speed is 100mbitps and DVD capacity is 4gb.

This is how everyone uses it and it's much clearer and better than B/b.

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by new_here »

severine wrote: post #331
new_here wrote: post #294

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You may be interested in https://able.bio Myself and a partner are building this, here are a few points: - It's a community to read and write about building things with technology - Clean, fast and light UX + Markdown editor ( https://able.bio/new ) - Bootstrapped with low overheads. No outside investment removes pressure to grow at all costs and the lapse on integrity that we see more of each day. - No data lock-in.…

Nice. Is there an RSS feed?

Originally just had feeds for individual users but added a global one just for you: http://able.bio/rss

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by sirodoht »

grwthckrmstr wrote: post #256

This looks exactly like what I've been searching for all this while. Do you plan to release a self hosted/open source version of this? The one thing that makes me uncomfortable about a blogging service - what happens if they shut down?

After being inspired by Bear Blog I build something similar with this exact concern in mind. Mataroa.blog [1] is a minimal blogging platform with export (to static site generators) as a first class citizen.

[1] https://mataroa.blog/

Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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Post by woozymans »

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…

I just hacked together a little blog directory recently - woozymans.com.
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