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Re: Open for everyone

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Post by nemof »

DigitalSea wrote: post #211
pg wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you pick software based on your opinion of the attitude of the authors, rather than its actual qualities, you're going to make a lot of mistakes. Do you have any opinion about Svbtle itself, incidentally? Have you tried using it? What do you feel are its advantages and disadvantages compared to Medium?

I would like to clarify my comment as some people has misinterpreted what I actually meant. I think Svbtle is great, but at the same time, how is it any different to that of other blog platforms that tout themselves as having a clean interface for writing content? We have Medium, Ghost, Tumblr and even Quora. The competitive edge that Svbtle had was its exclusivity, an edge they've now lost by opening it up. I wasn't…

Unfortunately, the word 'elitist' has pretty strong negative connotations. It's definitely enough calling someone an elitist to be considered personal invective, though I recognise that this was not your intent.

Re: Open for everyone

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Post by jessedhillon »

na85 wrote: post #205
anologwintermut wrote: post #192

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you use GNU/Linux or OSX? Good luck claim Steve Jobs or RMS isn't a dick.

I think Steve Jobs was a prick too. I don't know much at all about RMS, but I will agree that Linus is a jerk. The difference of course is that Linus doesn't head a company that engages in predatory business practices, ships spyware and DRM (malware) in its operating systems, etc. So I can overlook the fact that Linus occasionally says mean things to people over the internet. I don't think Linus has ever thrown a cha…

The claim was that you're prone to making mistakes if you judge software by the traits of the authors. How do you know that you haven't made a mistake?

Disregarding that, strictly speaking, the onus is on pg to show that you made a mistake (if this were a debate)

In general, statements and actions of the authors do seem to be extremely irrelevant components of software quality.

Re: Open for everyone

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Post by 001sky »

prezjordan wrote: post #225
DigitalSea wrote: post #211

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would like to clarify my comment as some people has misinterpreted what I actually meant. I think Svbtle is great, but at the same time, how is it any different to that of other blog platforms that tout themselves as having a clean interface for writing content? We have Medium, Ghost, Tumblr and even Quora. The competitive edge that Svbtle had was its exclusivity, an edge they've now lost by opening it up. I wasn't…

> Dustin's elitist attitude > I wasn't attacking Dustin Curtis, I don't know him, I know of him and I have no problem with him whatsoever Not sure how this could be interpreted in any other way whatsoever. Your other points are very fair.

Not sure how this could be interpreted in any other way whatsoever.

This is unfair, and lacks imagination.

CEO X can run a company with an "elitist" strategy or not. And he can be critiqued for that strategy, or not. It is a giant leap (of bad logic) to jump to personal conclusions about CEO X based on his strategy. You are making that poor leap. The poster was trying to not due this, to his credit.

Re: Open for everyone

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Post by eberfreitas »

So, what should I use as my blogging platform? I mean, right now I'm using a platform that uses Dropbox and I fear it might go away anytime soon.

There are a lot of options right now... Any ideas or suggestions?

Re: Open for everyone

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Post by chipotle_coyote »

DigitalSea wrote: post #211
pg wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you pick software based on your opinion of the attitude of the authors, rather than its actual qualities, you're going to make a lot of mistakes. Do you have any opinion about Svbtle itself, incidentally? Have you tried using it? What do you feel are its advantages and disadvantages compared to Medium?

I would like to clarify my comment as some people has misinterpreted what I actually meant. I think Svbtle is great, but at the same time, how is it any different to that of other blog platforms that tout themselves as having a clean interface for writing content? We have Medium, Ghost, Tumblr and even Quora. The competitive edge that Svbtle had was its exclusivity, an edge they've now lost by opening it up. I wasn't…

Svbtle and Medium both started out as invitation-only exclusive clubs; you could submit your email address to a sign-up form on Medium, but invitations were prioritized by, essentially, how recognized your writing was to start with. There's nothing wrong with this, but I think people imagine a greater gulf existed between the two services than there actually was. The difference is mostly that Medium opened up faster.

I remain somewhat on the fence about Svbtle. I admire much of it but there's a rather unrelating sameness starting to manifest itself in the web design world--the pastels, rounded corners and dropped vowels of a few years ago have given way to monochrome color schemes, large text, and vast swaths of whitespace. While this is an improvement in readability, the biggest difference between Medium and Svbtle for readers rather than authors is serif text vs. sans serif, and that Medium appears to have better image handling.

Re: Open for everyone

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Post by na85 »

jessedhillon wrote: post #232
na85 wrote: post #205

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think Steve Jobs was a prick too. I don't know much at all about RMS, but I will agree that Linus is a jerk. The difference of course is that Linus doesn't head a company that engages in predatory business practices, ships spyware and DRM (malware) in its operating systems, etc. So I can overlook the fact that Linus occasionally says mean things to people over the internet. I don't think Linus has ever thrown a cha…

The claim was that you're prone to making mistakes if you judge software by the traits of the authors. How do you know that you haven't made a mistake? Disregarding that, strictly speaking, the onus is on pg to show that you made a mistake (if this were a debate) In general, statements and actions of the authors do seem to be extremely irrelevant components of software quality.

If that's the claim then the onus is on the claimant to demonstrate why or how I have made a mistake, not for me to demonstrate why or how I haven't.

Re: Open for everyone

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Post by pg »

DigitalSea wrote: post #211
pg wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you pick software based on your opinion of the attitude of the authors, rather than its actual qualities, you're going to make a lot of mistakes. Do you have any opinion about Svbtle itself, incidentally? Have you tried using it? What do you feel are its advantages and disadvantages compared to Medium?

I would like to clarify my comment as some people has misinterpreted what I actually meant. I think Svbtle is great, but at the same time, how is it any different to that of other blog platforms that tout themselves as having a clean interface for writing content? We have Medium, Ghost, Tumblr and even Quora. The competitive edge that Svbtle had was its exclusivity, an edge they've now lost by opening it up. I wasn't…

The competitive edge that Svbtle had was its exclusivity

Is that true? Does it have no features that some users prefer?

Re: Open for everyone

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Post by joshontheweb »

Just trying this out now. So far I quite like they way they make it super easy to stub out ideas for blog posts. I just stubbed out 15 post I want to write and can now go back in and finish them when I have time.

Re: Open for everyone

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Post by jamesgeck0 »

Skywing wrote: post #185
jamesgeck0 wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The UX isn't an utterly terrible developer workflow? I write code all day. Git is awesome, and you can pry Vim from my cold dead hands. But Jekyll is fiddly and doesn't really match my preferred writing workflow. Ghost workflow: Visit URL, mash password manager (occasionally), click "new post" and start writing. Change the title whenever I feel like it. A live preview of the post appears on the left, and I click publ…

If you host your jekyll blog on github, then creating a new blog post is as simple as logging into github and going straight to your blog repo. You can create a new file and edit straight from there. The blog is rebuilt on each commit.

Oh, nice. iirc, I tried it when online editing first appeared on Github, and it was a bit finicky about rebuilding the page afterwards. Good to hear it works now.

I used prose.io for a while, but ran into a few cases where the preview didn't match what Github generated. It looks like there's a whole new interface since the last time I used Prose, so perhaps that's not an issue anymore. It supports image uploads now, too.

Re: Open for everyone

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Post by jamesgeck0 »

mikeg8 wrote: post #108
vph wrote: post #70

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.

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…

Not everything has to be timeless. Sometimes I just want to blog about a quick workaround for a tricky technical issue I spent two days banging my head on. Such information may not be widely known, but it also probably won't be relevant in a few months.
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