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Re: Svbtle for Wordpress

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Post by j_c » Thu, Mar 29, 2012, 3:08 PM UTC

huggyface wrote: post #7

j_c wrote: post #3

Curtis' abilities surrounding marketing, PR and his brand has and will continue to drive this product. Not the technology. Copycats can build the technology, but that's it. All the aspects of the product that have resulted it reaching the top of HackerNews are unfortunately a lot harder to reproduce.

All the aspects of the product that have resulted it reaching the top of HackerNews What are those aspects? Honestly, I'm not seeing it. I see this as a profound example of the cult of personality.

PR / Marketing / Brand — All aspects of the cult of a personality.

Re: Svbtle for Wordpress

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Post by samstave » Thu, Mar 29, 2012, 3:26 PM UTC

jh3 wrote: post #8

So much publicity for Curtis over the last couple weeks.

Argh! I accidentally downvoted you when I meant to upvote you. Damn tiny arrows on the phone and no ability to reverse votes. My digital apologies.

Re: Svbtle for Wordpress

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Post by samstave » Thu, Mar 29, 2012, 3:28 PM UTC

j_c wrote: post #11

huggyface wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All the aspects of the product that have resulted it reaching the top of HackerNews What are those aspects? Honestly, I'm not seeing it. I see this as a profound example of the cult of personality.

PR / Marketing / Brand — All aspects of the cult of a personality.

There is no cult of personality at play here. There has really been zero talk of Curtis the person as opposed to Svbtle the thing.

Re: Svbtle for Wordpress

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Post by pdelgallego » Thu, Mar 29, 2012, 3:30 PM UTC

pace wrote: post #2

Incredible how Svbtle got popular and a creator who doesn't seem to be too happy about its evolution. Good read on that http://therain.posterous.com/dustin-curtis-single-mistake-wi...

The Streisand effect in all its glory

Re: Svbtle for Wordpress

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Post by antidaily » Thu, Mar 29, 2012, 3:34 PM UTC

samstave wrote: post #12

jh3 wrote: post #8

So much publicity for Curtis over the last couple weeks.

Argh! I accidentally downvoted you when I meant to upvote you. Damn tiny arrows on the phone and no ability to reverse votes. My digital apologies.

Yeah, maybe it should be a circle you hover your mouse over for a second.

Re: Svbtle for Wordpress

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Post by dpritchett » Thu, Mar 29, 2012, 3:37 PM UTC

puppybeard wrote: post #9

I like the look of it, and I like the idea behind it. It's not for me, but it's still nice. I don't see how it's supposed to be a Panacea though. Are there people out there who have great difficulty blogging?

It's called writer's block and it's pretty much universal. The point is to streamline the content creation process so that there are no distractions between you and the work. Hopefully produce more and better work when you can really focus on the craft. Once a blog post gets to the "nearly finished" state then you can deal with the 5000 options WordPress offers around every post, such as tags and crosslinking old posts and formatting and url slugs and and and...

Re: Svbtle for Wordpress

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Post by huggyface » Thu, Mar 29, 2012, 3:46 PM UTC

samstave wrote: post #13

j_c wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

PR / Marketing / Brand — All aspects of the cult of a personality.

There is no cult of personality at play here. There has really been zero talk of Curtis the person as opposed to Svbtle the thing.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3742314

"Codename: Svbtle by Dustin Curtis"

Zero talk, when it's right in the title? Never have I seen such egregious inflation of a project because of the personality.

Re: Svbtle for Wordpress

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Post by atourgates » Thu, Mar 29, 2012, 3:57 PM UTC

rkudeshi wrote: post #10

Is this a WordPress theme or a modification of the backend admin view?

It's both.

Re: Svbtle for Wordpress

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Post by chrisguitarguy » Thu, Mar 29, 2012, 4:09 PM UTC

rkudeshi wrote: post #10

Is this a WordPress theme or a modification of the backend admin view?

It's a theme and an alternate admin area. From the code on github[1], it looks like you drop the theme[2] in as normal (in `wp-content/themes`). Then you put the `wp-svbtle` directory in the same directory as your wordpress install.

Doesn't really replace the built in WordPress admin area, just adds another one.

1. https://github.com/gravityonmars/wp-svbtle 2. https://github.com/gravityonmars/wp-svbtle/tree/master/wp-co...

Re: Svbtle for Wordpress

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Post by jff » Thu, Mar 29, 2012, 4:23 PM UTC

antidaily wrote: post #15

samstave wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Argh! I accidentally downvoted you when I meant to upvote you. Damn tiny arrows on the phone and no ability to reverse votes. My digital apologies.

Yeah, maybe it should be a circle you hover your mouse over for a second.

How do you hover the mouse pointer on a phone? :)