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Re: Open for everyone

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Post by coherentpony »

guelo wrote: post #105
coherentpony wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And my personal favourite: $ cat blog-post-n.html My post here EOF $ scp blog-post-n.html myserver:public_html

I did this for a long time. But the problems start right away when you want to add some navigation between pages. And then you want to have a chronological display of posts, or a master index, or tags. Then you want some consistent style, headers, menus. Then you figure you'd like comments. And search. And analytics. Then you realize you're half way to writing your own half assed blog engine and go check out Wordpres…

That's true. I never cared about any of that stuff.

Re: Open for everyone

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Post by joelrunyon »

GnarfGnarf wrote: post #113
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.

"catch" or "cachet"

Sorry - caché

Re: Open for everyone

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Post by js2 »

zem wrote: post #147
pclark wrote: post #140

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this comment is unreal

why? i completely lost interest in svbtle when it did the whole "invitation only" thing, and i'm pretty sure i'm not the only one. for a blogging platform, mindshare is reasonably important, and they threw a lot of it away. i'm not sure if medium is relevant, but svbtle's erratic start did hurt it.

Because it stinks of haters gonna hate. The personal attack on Dustin is completely uncalled for. It makes me sad that it's the top-voted comment.

Re: Open for everyone

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Post by leobelle »

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.

The thing about Medium though is that it requires you to have a beautiful large image for every post, otherwise it looks terrible. There are a lot of terrible looking Medium blogs with ugly pictures.

Re: Open for everyone

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Post by soup10 »

js2 wrote: post #153
zem wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

why? i completely lost interest in svbtle when it did the whole "invitation only" thing, and i'm pretty sure i'm not the only one. for a blogging platform, mindshare is reasonably important, and they threw a lot of it away. i'm not sure if medium is relevant, but svbtle's erratic start did hurt it.

Because it stinks of haters gonna hate. The personal attack on Dustin is completely uncalled for. It makes me sad that it's the top-voted comment.

I automatically hate people who say "haters gonna hate". Don't be sad, who cares, hn is just a peanut gallery anyway.

Re: Open for everyone

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Post by matthiasv »

shmerl wrote: post #112

Markdown only? That's not "getting out of the way", it's limiting the ways of expression. Getting out of the way is providing simple defaults, why not depraving those who need more tools (HTML/CSS) of richer features.

HTML is part of the "specification" of Markdown. And you really want to "spice up" your markup with CSS? I'd rather spent the time on content.

Re: Open for everyone

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Post by shmerl »

matthiasv wrote: post #159
shmerl wrote: post #112

Markdown only? That's not "getting out of the way", it's limiting the ways of expression. Getting out of the way is providing simple defaults, why not depraving those who need more tools (HTML/CSS) of richer features.

HTML is part of the "specification" of Markdown. And you really want to "spice up" your markup with CSS? I'd rather spent the time on content.

I'd say you might want to spice up HTML with CSS if you want to achieve anything like font styling, positioning and so on. Spending time on content doesn't substitute spending time on presenting it the way you want. Blogger for example allows doing all that.

A very simple and practical example where Markdown offers no help: how can you change rtl and ltr directions of the text without CSS?

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