Introducing Syte, An open sourced personal site that has social integrations • Hacker News Board

Re: Introducing Syte, An open sourced personal site that has social integrations

#41

Post by justindocanto » Tue, Jun 12, 2012, 6:43 AM UTC

I really wanted to hate this, but this is actually really well done. Great integration while making it feel native to the site. I love this.

Re: Introducing Syte, An open sourced personal site that has social integrations

#42

Post by pashamur » Tue, Jun 12, 2012, 6:53 AM UTC

Wow, this is totally awesome! I'm going to give it a whirl tomorrow. I just switched from Django to Ruby on Rails and fell in love with the framework, so maybe I'll try porting Syte to Rails someday.

Re: Introducing Syte, An open sourced personal site that has social integrations

#43

Post by f4stjack » Tue, Jun 12, 2012, 6:54 AM UTC

Hell, yes. This is one of the kickass ideas I've ever seen in a while. Simple, matter of fact and very usable. Thanks!

Re: Introducing Syte, An open sourced personal site that has social integrations

#44

Post by yaix » Tue, Jun 12, 2012, 6:57 AM UTC

The design has a problem on my eeepc, because I can only see half of the menu items on the left. I know that "position:fixed" is the "chic" thing to use currently, but still: don't. It almost always causes some problem.

Re: Introducing Syte, An open sourced personal site that has social integrations

#45

Post by holic » Tue, Jun 12, 2012, 7:01 AM UTC

I love the idea, design, and choice of frameworks/libraries, but I have one beef: I really, really dislike sites that prevent me from clicking with my middle mouse button. I open almost all links in new tabs using my middle mouse button and, currently, I can't do this on Syte.

Re: Introducing Syte, An open sourced personal site that has social integrations

#46

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jun 12, 2012, 7:11 AM UTC

rigoneri wrote: post #27

shortformblog wrote: post #12

Spotted a bug on this. If you go back or forward in your browser to a blog post, it just shows a bunch of JSON code. You have to reload to get the site to properly show.

Issue fixed. Please let me know if you find any more issues, or create an issue in github. Thanks!!

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Re: Introducing Syte, An open sourced personal site that has social integrations

#47

Post by asselinpaul » Tue, Jun 12, 2012, 7:18 AM UTC

rigoneri wrote: post #29

martindale wrote: post #26

This is pretty cool, I've been wanting to build something almost identical to this using node.js. Inspiration, this is!

Maybe you should make a Node.js fork... I was thinking about doing one myself!

Wintersmith and Blacksmith are both Node alternatives.

Re: Introducing Syte, An open sourced personal site that has social integrations

#48

Post by dain » Tue, Jun 12, 2012, 7:39 AM UTC

Horrible border around the image. And no mention of your inspiration? Come on man, you even use the same spelling type. We can't change the border? Seriously...that's ridiculous.

Re: Introducing Syte, An open sourced personal site that has social integrations

#49

Post by troels » Tue, Jun 12, 2012, 8:28 AM UTC

rigoneri wrote: post #32

troels wrote: post #31

Clicking on twitter en the menu just takes me to the twitter account. I guess I'm missing something?

Due to the unexpected number of hits... Twitter is rate limiting the requests per hour... So instead of doing nothing it redirects to twitter...

Aha .. smart default!

Re: Introducing Syte, An open sourced personal site that has social integrations

#50

Post by kalmsy » Tue, Jun 12, 2012, 8:56 AM UTC

Very good job. And props for setting it loose! Love the git integration :)