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#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
Any half assed blog engine would be better than wordpress.
In what way in particular?
Wordpress reminds me of Ron Swanson saying "Never half-ass two things, son. Whole-ass one thing."
But in general, Wordpress is rife with inconsistent UIs, plugins that cause each other problems, and attempting to be all things to all people. It's moved way, way past being just a blog engine.
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#163Oh thank god! Before this, I had nowhere to post all my brilliant thoughts except medium, blogger, wordpress, posthaven, quora, facebook, google+, livejournal and myspace.
And my personal favourite: $ cat blog-post-n.html My post here EOF $ scp blog-post-n.html myserver:public_html
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#164Earlier 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.
there is a little bit of that, perhaps, but consider: from the OP we have
> Until now, we’ve been an exclusive platform open only to approved users. We took this initial approach because we wanted to ensure that the software worked, first of all, and that the platform was seeded with great content by seasoned and experienced authors.
but if you remember the original svbtle announcement, that is disingenuous. dustin deliberately tried to build up some sense of exclusivity in the "cachet of belonging to a selective group" rather than in the "starting off small" sense. to me that came across as manipulative and a little sketchy (i always wonder, subconsciously, what is wrong with your product if it has to be sold on the premise that not everyone can get it). to a lot of other people, it came across as elitist (just read some of the other comments here). either way, he took a nice piece of software and gave it an unnecessarily blot, but since that blot was deliberately highlighted you can't blame people here for the conversation choosing to focus on it.
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#165I did not mean to give you a Kudo. I don't care for that button interface. Unless I can undo it, then I like it.
He talks about it here http://dcurt.is/unkudo
wow. he sound like a bit of a... well I'm not sure what that makes him but it feels like something I don't want my kids to be.
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#166I 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.
I emailed Dustin about providing more emphasis on dates just yesterday and this was the response I got. > We want to encourage people to write stuff that has lasting impact. I think dates can just add an extra piece of messy context for some articles. What kind of increased emphasis do you want to see? The more I though about it, the more I realized my desire to see dates is because that is what I know. In retrospect…
Dates are must. They don't need to be big and bold, just to be there, somewhere. When I read a blog post, I need that information for context. It is especially true for technical blog posts. Was it written before version X? What was the context this was written in? Date helps.
Re: Open for everyone
#167Earlier 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…
Then it's time to try Jekyll, Octopress, nanoc, Pelican, Hakyll, etc.
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#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
> an avoidable restriction // How does having an account restrict you, in the context of being a writer wishing to publicise your work?
It restricts Medium to people with Twitter accounts. Contrary to popular belief, not everyone has one.
You can get them for free, using a throwaway email and fake identity if wanted. Why is it preferable to get a Medium account?
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#169Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is naive. This is an indie side project compared to Medium (started by a billionaire tech darling).
Is Svbtle competing with Medium? I genuinely thought it was a side project created by a group of friends for their personal use.
Is this comment meant for me or the grandparent who made the comparison?
Re: Open for everyone
#170Earlier 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.
Off-topic but:
It makes me sad that it's the top-voted comment
Not necessarily. It's also less than an hour old, so that helps to make it raise.