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Re: Open for everyone

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Post by nknighthb »

jessaustin wrote: post #253
vectorsys wrote: post #242

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The whole RMS is only a dick for those that don't understand him doesn't work around here. You just have to accept that many people understand him and his motives and think he's a dick.

I accept that many people, despite a longstanding superficial familiarity with RMS and his work, are nevertheless cretinous ingrates who don't understand the first thing about software freedom or RMS's role in preserving same. " His motives "? Really? What are you thinking here? Fame? Fortune? Pull the other one.

I in many ways agree with RMS's work and motives. I still think he's a dick. Ain't nuance grand?

Re: Open for everyone

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Post by na85 »

jessedhillon wrote: post #268
na85 wrote: post #248

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>Did you even read my comment? Uhh... no. Not really. Having read it now, though, I don't care if I've made what someone else considers to be a mistake. My operating system choice suits me just fine.

Err, a) you clearly cared enough to respond this far, and b) the question is how do you know that you have not made a mistake not do you care if someone else thinks you've made a mistake

> how do you know that you have not made a mistake

I guess I just don't understand the purpose of asking this.

Because my operating system choice hasn't let me down or hindered me in any significant way?

I gave the "I don't care" response because I don't know how else to answer your question. "a mistake" is so nebulously defined that in this context it has nearly no meaning to me. Can you give an example of what you mean when you say "a mistake"?

Re: Open for everyone

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Post by aroman »

snirp wrote: post #178
mikeg8 wrote: post #107

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I have been using svtble for a few months now and when asked by a friend how it is different from Medium, I created an account on Medium to see for myself. I personally prefer svbtle's dashboard as I feel it's much smoother than Medium with the flow of: idea > draft > published. Svbtle is also less focused on images and commenting. These small details are preferable to me but to each his own.

When I checked out Medium, they had no Markdown support and very limited formatting options. Not good for code examples. Also no option to use your own domain. Also I think that the copyright is (better) protected on Svbtle. All in all it seems like a better option to me.

>Also I think that the copyright is (better) protected on Svbtle.

Why?

Re: Open for everyone

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Post by js2 »

glomph wrote: post #216
js2 wrote: post #203

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Words matter. The original commenter could have said the same thing without the hostility. Consider: "Dustin really hurt Svbtle's chances of becoming a popular platform by originally restricting access. Especially since Medium launched, success for Svbtle will be difficult." But perhaps the point was to attack Dustin, not have a civil conversation. $0.02.

I think it is an important piece of information that it was the elitism that hurt its chances. Your wording misses that out.

This (and the sibling comment) make fair points. I still think DigitalSea could have chosen better words such as "the restricted access came across as elitist and left me not wanting to use the service."

Re: Open for everyone

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Post by musty »

jmathai wrote: post #114
cshenoy wrote: post #20

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Why does the copy drive you away from it? Serious question since I didn't think one way or the other about it.

I like Medium's better because it's a story. It's got some emotion behind it.

I think a lot of recent radical changes were made to medium.com in recent times to adopt this sense of "emotional design".

Re: Open for everyone

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Post by msutherl »

sneak wrote: post #263
killwhitey wrote: post #220

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>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. Isn't this what you do for a living?

Hahahaha, wow.

Immortalized: http://x.are.na/FkFuYti/show/194326

Re: Open for everyone

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Post by quadrangle »

debacle wrote: post #42
quadrangle wrote: post #22

"Open" for use but not for inspection / modification / sharing… It's like all sorts of SaaS: it's a lock-in, a jail, that is open for you to enter. Ok, that's a bit harsh. But still, we've got lots of good tools like this, we don't need another proprietary thing. It looks nice though, would be useful if it were fully FLOSS.

Don't blame svbtle. It's the monetization strategy of the Internet, and has been for 20 years.

Indeed, they are not the primary source of the unethical business model they are following.

Re: Open for everyone

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Post by quadrangle »

rguldener wrote: post #106
quadrangle wrote: post #22

"Open" for use but not for inspection / modification / sharing… It's like all sorts of SaaS: it's a lock-in, a jail, that is open for you to enter. Ok, that's a bit harsh. But still, we've got lots of good tools like this, we don't need another proprietary thing. It looks nice though, would be useful if it were fully FLOSS.

Should take a look at Ghost then, found it mentioned in another comment deep in the tree here: Open Source (MIT licensed), self hosted (or hosted for a small fee), non-profit setup and a core focus on blogging. Link: https://ghost.org/

Thanks! Ghost looks wonderful!

Re: Open for everyone

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Post by mcgwiz »

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

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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.

To get into the linguistic nitty-gritty, perhaps he could have said "elitist strategy". But the point was that Dustin's execution, and the decisions behind it, were based on the marketability of exclusion. The point wasn't that Dustin thinks he is better than others and therefore should be judged negatively.

Re: Open for everyone

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Post by r0s »

prateek_mir wrote: post #267
r0s wrote: post #92

I miss Posterous. R.I.P.

I am not much aware about posterous, how different was it as compared to posthaven ?

Well it was free, but the killer feature for me was media handeling.. it would take just about anything you threw at it and form it into a blog post. Sound file? It would upload to soundcloud and drop the player right in your page. Video etc.

You could email everything too, so a zip file full of images and a quick paragraph in email would get formatted as a nice blog post with photo gallery.

Everything (mostly) just worked and was awesome.

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