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Re: Open for everyone

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Post by jimbokun »

corresation wrote: post #26
minimaxir wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's for the intersection of people a) who want a blog and b) who want a website with a good design. Medium beat Svbtle to the punch, though.

Good design is a fleeting, abstract concept that has more to do with correlation than anything else: Correlate something with good content and the design seems good by association. When it becomes common, though, it is ready for displacement. This is true of virtually every "good design" over the years. At the beginning people almost always thought it was superior in some way.

Apple became the most valuable company in the world by focusing on good design.

Re: Open for everyone

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Post by slaven »

minimaxir wrote: post #12
mijustin wrote: post #9

Open for everyone My first question is: "who is this for?" The interface, and experience look great. But who needs this? Who is pulling out their hair looking for a new hosted publishing platform that they don't control? Maybe this is a "hair-on-fire" (Patio11) problem for some folks - but I couldn't tell from the blog post. I think this is a mistake a lot of us make when we're marketing, writing about our products:…

It's for the intersection of people a) who want a blog and b) who want a website with a good design. Medium beat Svbtle to the punch, though.

I always felt Medium borrowed heavily from Svbtle, which came first. Now, Svbtle brings something different to the table: like Medium, it's simple to use and focused on writing. Unlike Medium, you get to own your identity, use your CNAME, etc...

Re: Open for everyone

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Post by AndyNemmity »

debt wrote: post #7

I always thought the quality of the article was more important than the quality of the blogging engine.

I just signed up, and immediately considered the quality of svbtle. My first post on other platforms is usually a very weak test post.

Considering it is svbtle, I decided to give a lot more thought to my post. If that's the effect it gives me, providing more effort and quality to my own thoughts, then it's worth it.

Re: Open for everyone

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Post by jsnk »

Over the weekend, I worked on a Chrome extension (Youtube.md: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/youtubemd/akjklake...) that lets you embed Youtube video image easily in markdown format. The allows you to generate markdown code for Youtube video image and links it to Youtube video, when Youtube video URL is given. Note that this will not actually embed the video. Instead it will display an image from the video.

I know Svbtle supports embedding Youtube videos, but I thought this would be a good thread to mention this extension in case some people use some other system.

Re: Open for everyone

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Post by lbr »

oddevan wrote: post #58
lbr wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It feels to me that they did build this for a certain type of person. One who likes writing without distractions. One who likes to brainstorm. One who appreciates simplicity. I assume that the initial product was built around the "seasoned and experienced authors" who initially populated the site. And the founder, Dustin Curtis. It seems that this was built for a very small group of people. But like many products tha…

I'll add that the original "selling" point of Svbtle was its "drafts first" approach (that I really appreciate). There's also a few references in the announcement post today mentioning writers' identity (free custom domain support, full name on everything) that could appeal to some people turned off by Medium's "nice article you just read now here's something else by someone completely different" approach. Basically,…

Yes, the identity aspect is interesting. Medium seems to be focused on pleasing readers. The whole site is designed to read one article to the next. Often from different authors. This might make reading easier, but might not be best for writers.

Svbtle does have that aspect (it calls itself "a new kind of magazine"), but seems to put a lot of energy into pleasing the writers.

Re: Open for everyone

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Post by johnrob »

ForHackernews wrote: post #23

Oh thank god! Before this, I had nowhere to post all my brilliant thoughts except medium, blogger, wordpress, posthaven, quora, facebook, google+, livejournal and myspace.

Unless you think that list will the same in 100 years, new services will continue to enter the space.

Re: Open for everyone

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Post by loteck »

dsowers wrote: post #10

If svbtle isn't quite right for you, check out Silvrback: https://www.silvrback.com/ It's similar to svbtle in its simplicity.

Pretty happy Silvrback user here, but I do kind of miss the "quick idea" interface from svbtle (wp version in my case).

How well has Silvrback held up under heavy load?

Re: Open for everyone

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Post by meerita »

The best thing I did in my life was to move out of these kind of blogging services. I preffer the freedom of my hosting machine, and the beauty of Octopress.

Re: Open for everyone

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Post by vph »

I hate blogs without dates. A good blog article is dated properly when it was created and revised. If you want to promote a new blog platform, better date your blogs properly.
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