Its soo clean. Logo, Icons, Font, Color selection, everything looks perfect.
Thank you! I'm not a designer, but I try. I took some creative inspiration from a few other minimalist blogs on the internet, as well as some stuff I saw on pinterest.
Nicheless: a micro-blogging platform
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey Sam! I'm Louis, the guy who built Nicheless. The purpose of the platform is simple – it's a place to improve your thoughts through writing. I wrote a bit about it here: https://nicheless.blog/post/why-i-built-this Also, people can like and reply to your posts, but both those are private. Only you'll know how many likes a post has, and all replies will go directly to your DMs instead of a comment section. This is…
Can a user turn off the DMs? Pretty much every woman who writes publicly on the internet gets unsolicited hate-DMs.
Yes they can. Currently, the only way to DM a person is to reply to a post. Each post lets you toggle the Likes and Reply (DM) feature for that post. So if you leave the Reply toggle off for all posts, you won't be able to receive them. Folks that have already replied to earlier posts that had the reply feature on will still be to continue the conversation though. I'll probably add a Block feature at some point in the near future though.
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#43> No trolls. While I'm sure some trolls do what they do for the external audience, private responses won't stop griefing just for giggles. I send a troll message to Bob, privately, get a rise out of him and screenshot the whole conversation and repost to some other platform if I want external validation.
I have a friend with millions of followers on social media. She gets all kinds of disgusting private messages all the time. The worst trolls aren’t publicly commenting (or at least aren’t solely publicly commenting), they message you directly as long as you leave an avenue open.
In its current form, in addition to the lack of public comments, you can also turn off the Replies (DMs) on each post, which will stop trolls from reaching you.
I'm hoping this will be sufficient, although it will end up blocking out good conversations/replies as well.
I'm not sure how to handle it better.
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#44Looks like Tumblr but simpler. I like it.
Thanks! Let me know if you have any questions or feedback :)
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#45Anyone can spew unfiltered thoughts. It's the refinement of the editorial process that distills those into something valuable.
No, thoughts are work done. If they're directed but not deliberate, they're still revelatory. Imagine a bunch of white tendrils in all directions, and every one of those has their own tendrils, and so on and so forth, like a system of roots, but a 2D manifestation of such. Now divide them and name them after scientific domains, imagine the white is what we know, imagine the black is our absence of knowledge, imagine…
I love this comment. It feels like you've understood exactly why the platform exists. So glad it resonates. Thank you.
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#46It's cool, I like the geek style design.
Thank you!
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#47micro-blogging but the text is long enough to be considered as just blogging.
Long enough to allow for nuance. Short enough to compel clarity of thought. That's the goal :)
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#48Does not work for me because it somehow prevents reader mode in Firefox.
Oh that's strange. Not sure why that's happening but I'll look into it when I can. Thanks for bringing it to my notice.
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#49I say this every time one of these pops up: Just do it yourself. Just get a $5 Linode or a Cloudflare account, make a Hugo/Pelican/whatever site and go. These niche microblogging sites are so small and insignificant that you can never ever trust them to survive (or even persist). Just do it yourself from the very beginning and you'll have a much better time.
Hey. You're right. But there are lots of folks who don't have the time to build and maintain a site themselves.
Besides, I'm hoping to make Nicheless more than just a micro blogging platform. My goal is to make it into a space that encourages groups of people to share their thoughts without fear, and eventually let the exchange of those ideas percolate into real life discussions.
It's still a long way out from becoming that, but it's the goal. I've written a bit about it here: https://nicheless.blog/post/mission