I'm a certified dark mode hater, so in that light, that's a no-go for me: there seems to be no way to change the theme.
Doesn't your user agent support user stylesheets?
Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS
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Re: Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS
#32I recently started a section on my personal site for absolutely minimal and simple microblogging that I could Ctrl-F through: https://knlb.dev/scribbles/ -- I should probably give this a shot.
Re: Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS
#33I recently started a section on my personal site for absolutely minimal and simple microblogging that I could Ctrl-F through: https://knlb.dev/scribbles/ -- I should probably give this a shot.
Hey, nice! If you want to try it, we have an API[0] you can pull your user feed from!
Re: Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS
#34I built something for a similar goal, make it easy for someone to start their blog. But instead it's a static website, clone the repo, adjust the config.ts, write the posts in markdown, host anywhere: https://starter.bryanhogan.com/
Re: Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS
#35Thanks for the write-up
Re: Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS
#36See also https://github.com/buckket/twtxt https://indieweb.org/twtxt
I think twtxt is really cool. I have one on my site but I don't use it, unfortunately
Re: Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
It works well for microbloggers.
But clearly not the microbloggers on twitter/x, Bluesky, etc, who use the patterns I mentioned.
Those are definitionally not microbloggers. It's ok for a platform explicitly for microblogging to not cater to their macroblogging desires.
Re: Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS
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Re: Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS
#39The 280 char limit seems arbitrary, given you cant even keep the about page within that limit: https://textlog.cc/about If you are going to limit it to short posts, maybe the length of a short post is the length to limit it to, rather than emulating the 2xSMS of every twitter clone? Other than that, it looks really clean and neat - I just dont think being 280 chars adds anything other than resulting in people posting…
You could fork and do whatever no?
Re: Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS
#40Reminds me of org-social ( https://github.com/tanrax/org-social ) > Notes are limited to 280 characters. The constraint keeps them quick to write and read, making room for one thought at a time. No thanks.
Hi, I'm sorry you don't like the limitation :( this is for short thoughts you want to share, not really huge conversations, there are better places for that IMO.
well, you may consider rewarding known quality users with an extended limit, say double. the others can pay ;)