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joelrunyon wrote: post #83

Wasn't part of svbtle's appeal being one of the few people to "have a svbtle"? When it first came out - it was beautiful & part of the cache was that only a few people got in. It was super popular for a few months - then fell off completely. Seems strange that the one main differentiator for the network has now been removed.

Funny enough, s/svbtle/medium and this is still true

Re: Open for everyone

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Post by rebelidealist » Tue, Jan 28, 2014, 7:33 PM UTC

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.

Medium drive me nuts. Though its a good writing software, I can't follow people that I find interesting. Instead we are following vague "collections" from a group of random people I don't care about. Can someone show me how to better browse thru it? All I really want is a feed of articles from people I actually want to hear from and their recommended articles from others. Maybe that is too close to Twitter for EV.

Re: Open for everyone

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Post by jamesbritt » Tue, Jan 28, 2014, 7:34 PM UTC

coherentpony wrote: post #90

nathancahill wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't forget Obtvse! [0] [0] https://github.com/natew/obtvse2

So 'acvte' is still up for grabs? Also, did you really just index your citations by zero? :)

Also, did you really just index your citations by zero?

Doesn't everybody?

Re: Open for everyone

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Post by steveklabnik » Tue, Jan 28, 2014, 7:34 PM UTC

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:…

> Who is pulling out their hair looking for a new hosted publishing platform that they don't control?

I've been using Svbtle for a while now, and for me, the killer is this, in order: On my own domain, looks great, and hosted by someone else.

I care that I'm not putting content I care about into a closed platform. I'd never post to Medium.

I'm a backend kind of developer, so knowing how to design something myself is awkward. I could pay someone to do it, but I'd still have to implement it.

While I am a backend developer, the last thing I want to do is deal with ANOTHER project to yak shave and suck up more of my time. Hosting it myself is a no-go.

Re: Open for everyone

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Post by timdorr » Tue, Jan 28, 2014, 7:36 PM UTC

r0s wrote: post #89

jimbokun wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

And now they're dropping skew-morphism, which demonstrates the point.

Skeuomorphic or non-skeuomorphic design doesn't make for a good design.

Re: Open for everyone

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Post by mcafee12 » Tue, Jan 28, 2014, 7:37 PM UTC

My belief in humanity is restored now.

Re: Open for everyone

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Post by sdegutis » Tue, Jan 28, 2014, 7:37 PM UTC

I'm starting to think people like saying stuff far more than listening. Maybe we should stop encouraging products/software that promotes that attitude?