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Re: Show HN: Hackerhub.org

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Post by program » Sun, Oct 02, 2011, 10:15 PM UTC

jstepien wrote: post #30

program wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What browser are you using? I can see all the characters. They have specified 'sans-serif' (which most of the times means Helvetica).

I'm on Chrome 13 and yes, I see all characters too, but Ż, ž, č, ą and ę are displayed in a fall-back sans-serif font. All others using Istok Web, as defined in the CSS. It doesn't look good.

It seems that Chrome is indulgent with the font-family declaration. There is an error in the CSS.

  font-family: 'Istok Web' sans-serif;

should be:

  font-family: 'Istok Web', sans-serif;

Firefox 7 ignore the above declaration showing the page in the default font. I have forced 'Istok Web' with firebug and yes it looks ugly.

Re: Show HN: Hackerhub.org

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Post by saibotd » Sun, Oct 02, 2011, 10:43 PM UTC

shareme wrote: post #23

This is interesting.. what prompted such a project?

I've had something like this for years as my personal cms. Lately I've seen a lot of valuable content hosted on closed platforms like g+ or even facebook and it makes me kinda sad - the people are willingly gifting their content away. If these companies decide you are no longer valuable to them (real name debate, anyone?) you may loose all of your stuff.

If hackerhub goes offline tomorrow, every user will still have their content.

Re: Show HN: Hackerhub.org

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Post by saibotd » Sun, Oct 02, 2011, 10:46 PM UTC

jstepien wrote: post #26

The font you've chosen is missing some characters. http://j.hackerhub.org/unicode

That is really a dumb problem - I am sorry for this. I'll try out some other fonts by tomorrow

Re: Show HN: Hackerhub.org

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Post by saibotd » Sun, Oct 02, 2011, 10:47 PM UTC

rhizome31 wrote: post #29

rcfox wrote: post #19

I don't think I understand. You post content elsewhere, and then this mirrors it?

I think the point is that you write your content in Markdown, the structure of your site in JSON, and this generates and serve HTML with a decent CSS. Interesting for programmers who want to quickly publish content without bothering with presentation. It's like Jekyll or Nanoc for busy (or lazy) people.

This man is correct

Re: Show HN: Hackerhub.org

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Post by saibotd » Sun, Oct 02, 2011, 10:49 PM UTC

JonnieCache wrote: post #5

I hope you know what you are getting into running a service like this - have a look at some of http://pastebin.com/archive for inspiration.

Well, it is a bit different to pastebin as with hackerhub you need to host the content by yourself.

That said I am sure there are plenty of ways to abuse the service ;)

Re: Show HN: Hackerhub.org

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Post by saibotd » Sun, Oct 02, 2011, 10:51 PM UTC

toyg wrote: post #12

Cool concept and nifty execution. It is still only pseudo-anonymous, because you need a personal URL for the repo-file. Open-source it, add some basic federation, and you have what Diaspora should have been from the start.

It is open source (be aware that the [sourcecode](https://bitbucket.org/saibotd/hackerhub/src) is not pretty)

> add some basic federation

How? Any ideas?

Re: Show HN: Hackerhub.org

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Post by saibotd » Sun, Oct 02, 2011, 10:52 PM UTC

shazow wrote: post #22

Stumbled on an error when going to /r of my url: Warning: file_get_contents() [function.file-get-contents]: Filename cannot be empty in /var/www/hackerhub/index.php on line 129

Did you check the validity of your JSON?

Re: Show HN: Hackerhub.org

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Post by saibotd » Sun, Oct 02, 2011, 10:53 PM UTC

adrianwaj wrote: post #27

perhaps one could categorize pages, eg, I mentioned something here about creating a UIpalette http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3060902 - could you pivot around that? Make the site a destination to find new content.

Great idea! Any ideas of how such a categorization could look like?

Re: Show HN: Hackerhub.org

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Post by hrabago » Sun, Oct 02, 2011, 11:01 PM UTC

rhizome31 wrote: post #29

rcfox wrote: post #19

I don't think I understand. You post content elsewhere, and then this mirrors it?

I think the point is that you write your content in Markdown, the structure of your site in JSON, and this generates and serve HTML with a decent CSS. Interesting for programmers who want to quickly publish content without bothering with presentation. It's like Jekyll or Nanoc for busy (or lazy) people.

It would help if the site mentioned this. It reminds me of an old analysis of the Mozilla website where, upon launching, it showed a full screenview that preached the gospel of Open Source Software to the visitor instead of providing the user with a link to the Firefox browser.

You have to provide some context to visitors, like maybe those who are not coming from HN.

Re: Show HN: Hackerhub.org

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Post by pork » Sun, Oct 02, 2011, 11:26 PM UTC

saibotd wrote: post #36

toyg wrote: post #12

Cool concept and nifty execution. It is still only pseudo-anonymous, because you need a personal URL for the repo-file. Open-source it, add some basic federation, and you have what Diaspora should have been from the start.

It is open source (be aware that the [sourcecode]( https://bitbucket.org/saibotd/hackerhub/src ) is not pretty) > add some basic federation How? Any ideas?

In a sense, you already have, by requiring the content to be hosted elsewhere and releasing the pulling code. There is beauty in simple tools like this one. Kudos.