I find this kind of writing a bit frustrating. Big ambitions are described concretely, while the product itself is not so clear. Perhaps I'm not a part of the target audience.
The Obvious Corp's preview of Medium
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#12So in simple terms what they're building is a new reddit but focused on self posts? Am I understanding that correctly?
Without comments or downvotes.
Honestly, what I'm seeing could be done with a fancy Wordpress theme. A good design does not mean you have a product.
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#13Looks interesting - to me it seems similar in a lot of ways to svbtle, at least as far as what they are trying to do.
Its a small thing, but I'm somewhat turned off by the urls - urls like https://medium.com/c/e2e5df2e6649 feel like something out of an early 2000's CMS...
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#14I'm unconvinced. It's a compelling story for would-be-publishers who don't want to build up an audience, but to have that you have to leverage an audience. As a reader I feel like there are many places I would go to before medium.com if I wanted to read random content.
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#15Looks interesting - to me it seems similar in a lot of ways to svbtle, at least as far as what they are trying to do. Its a small thing, but I'm somewhat turned off by the urls - urls like https://medium.com/c/e2e5df2e6649 feel like something out of an early 2000's CMS...
http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI should be required reading for every designer, developer, and stakeholder who is involved in building any kind of product on the web.
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#16For anything that nice I'd probably do a Wordpress currently, but it will be interesting to see how this compares.
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#17Looks interesting - to me it seems similar in a lot of ways to svbtle, at least as far as what they are trying to do. Its a small thing, but I'm somewhat turned off by the urls - urls like https://medium.com/c/e2e5df2e6649 feel like something out of an early 2000's CMS...
http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI should be required reading for every designer, developer, and stakeholder who is involved in building any kind of product on the web.
For sure. And it's funny coming from Obvious. Twitter's traditionally one of the best examples of real-world cool URIs.
Hopefully it's just a prototype thing, but you'd think they'd want even these early URLs to be shared with love.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI should be required reading for every designer, developer, and stakeholder who is involved in building any kind of product on the web.
For sure. And it's funny coming from Obvious. Twitter's traditionally one of the best examples of real-world cool URIs. Hopefully it's just a prototype thing, but you'd think they'd want even these early URLs to be shared with love.
"Twitter's traditionally one of the best examples of real-world cool URIs."
Do you mind expanding on this? I thought hashbangs were a rape and pillage of URI convention.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
For sure. And it's funny coming from Obvious. Twitter's traditionally one of the best examples of real-world cool URIs. Hopefully it's just a prototype thing, but you'd think they'd want even these early URLs to be shared with love.
"Twitter's traditionally one of the best examples of real-world cool URIs." Do you mind expanding on this? I thought hashbangs were a rape and pillage of URI convention.
Hashbangs existed for a very short period of Twitter's life. They were a mistake. They're gone now.
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#20So in simple terms what they're building is a new reddit but focused on self posts? Am I understanding that correctly?
It sounds something like that to me. I am doing something similar with hubski.com, where you essentially blog into an aggregator.
I like the pieces of what's here, but I think masonry is a bit overdone, I personally like a higher information density.