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Re: Show HN: Privacy-first, minimal, fast blogging/newsletter platform

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Post by BLKNSLVR »

encryptluks2 wrote: post #3

I personally don't believe anything is privacy-first unless it is open source do that it can be self-hosted.

Well, on the 'visitor' side, uMatrix isn't showing any third party links at all, which is an absolute breath of fresh air. There are a couple on the 'publisher' side.

Obviously can't speak to the back-end since it's not open source so there's no way to know what metadata it's recording, but there's no email verification required so as long as you can remember your login details, it won't necessarily link back to you - pending IP addresses etc.

Re: Show HN: Privacy-first, minimal, fast blogging/newsletter platform

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Post by colinarms »

Groxx wrote: post #16

Impressively fast (honestly, that's stellar work), slightly buggy in the editor (focus is sometimes hard to determine, triple-click doesn't always select a paragraph, etc) but I assume that'll get cleared up eventually, and it's pretty good looking across the board. I might actually use this. Simple and effective and not full of crap. It could use a little bit more documentation (inter-post linking how? hardcoding mi…

Thank you - appreciate all the feedback!

I invested quite a bit into speed, and thankfully Next.js has a lot of great built-in support to make things fast - incremental static regeneration, link prefetching, image optimization, etc.

For the editor bugs - thanks for highlighting, I filed a bug and definitely hoping to tackle this eventually.

Agreed on the documentation as well - it's on my radar to improve.

For custom domain support and RSS - both features on the roadmap! Likely RSS first, as that's quite a bit easier to implement, and custom domain support shortly after that. (Custom domain support is probably the #1 feature request at the moment).

Re: Show HN: Privacy-first, minimal, fast blogging/newsletter platform

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Post by toastal »

colinarms wrote: post #19
toastal wrote: post #8

Will AsciiDoc be supported too? Markdown is far too limiting for many applications.

What applications do you envision? The editor is currently markdown combined with a rich text UI-based editor. I haven't explored supporting other types of editors (beyond extending the UI), but I'd be open to it.

Features I’ve used:: * Tables: more features and is standard instead of specific to some Markdown “flavors” * Admonitions: better than ad hoc emoji + bold *NOTE* usage as it then becomes styleable * Titles for blocks: better than putting "######" for an when you want a caption * Display block images * Ability to add [.css-class-name] to arbitrary blocks * Ability to add arbitrary attributes to images and links (title, rel, ARIA, etc.)

What I’ll often see however in Markdown is a lot of handwritten HTML to accomplish this stuff which kinda defeats the point of a lightweight markup language. There’s also a big list of typographic substitutions which is nice for authors that prefer to type in ASCII but want proper quotes, dashes, arrows, etc. These are all things I would want if writing technical content where I am in control of styles and demand good typography.

Re: Show HN: Privacy-first, minimal, fast blogging/newsletter platform

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Post by ComodoHacker »

I doubt that flat 5% from subscriptions would be enough to sustain free users. You will either have to draw in some established bloggers with loyal, paying audience from another platform, or find another source of revenue.

Maybe I'm wrong and you did the math.

Re: Show HN: Privacy-first, minimal, fast blogging/newsletter platform

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Post by mp3k »

colinarms wrote: post #19
toastal wrote: post #8

Will AsciiDoc be supported too? Markdown is far too limiting for many applications.

What applications do you envision? The editor is currently markdown combined with a rich text UI-based editor. I haven't explored supporting other types of editors (beyond extending the UI), but I'd be open to it.

Let's add PRO mode for MDX https://v2.mdxjs.com/
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