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Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

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Post by toshk »

sirodoht wrote: post #90
olah_1 wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was wondering about the typography too. Specifically for multi-language support, the chances are high that you’d want something better than the one default font they provide. Not to mention that you may want to edit the language meta code if you are writing in a different language.

I built mataroa. Not sure if your comment is referring to mataroa, but in case it is: I care a lot about typography and making a platform in which non-latin scripts can be read well. Mataroa does not provide any font. Rather, it uses the end user's system fonts. System fonts are most probably better than webfonts. They can define a large set of characters, including as many languages as they can, without caring about…

On my phone it's pretty small font and linegeight, and found uncomfortable to read. As a web & app dev I have no idea how to quickly change this, let alone someone less tech savvy. For old people often small text is a big thing. Maybe add few font enlarge buttons?

Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

#102

Post by lisper »

kareemm wrote: post #6

Edit: leaving up as an embarrassing reminder to myself fully rtfm before opening my mouth. I thought this did NOT have comments and sub by email but it does. Glad y’all provided me with some feedback to realize I was wrong. —- Original comment: I don’t get it. If you want to write and don’t care how much you’re read, write privately (Google Docs, a journal, text file, etc.) If you’re writing publicly presumably it’s…

> I thought this did NOT have comments and sub by email but it does.

Can you please elaborate? Because I was (and still am) under the exact same impression. The only appearance of the word "comments" on the home page is this:

• Comments (alpha)

and there is no link.

Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

#103

Post by olah_1 »

loloquwowndueo wrote: post #96
olah_1 wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t enjoy the process of having to build the site and push the built site to a service like github. It adds a certain kind of friction to the process of “saving” my work that just isn’t life-giving for me.

You could keep the source files in GitHub and use their web editor to add or update content, then build and push to the publishing server via a GitHub action. You can find descriptions of such a setup by googling.

> then build and push to the publishing server via a GitHub action

I have looked into this before, but it honestly just seemed very esoteric and complex. I'm surprised that Github doesn't provide pre-made "recipes" for this stuff.

Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

#104

Post by sirodoht »

toshk wrote: post #101
sirodoht wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I built mataroa. Not sure if your comment is referring to mataroa, but in case it is: I care a lot about typography and making a platform in which non-latin scripts can be read well. Mataroa does not provide any font. Rather, it uses the end user's system fonts. System fonts are most probably better than webfonts. They can define a large set of characters, including as many languages as they can, without caring about…

On my phone it's pretty small font and linegeight, and found uncomfortable to read. As a web & app dev I have no idea how to quickly change this, let alone someone less tech savvy. For old people often small text is a big thing. Maybe add few font enlarge buttons?

One can change their blog's theme (which is essentially a larger serif font at 20px) on the mataroa blog setting page.

Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

#105

Post by olah_1 »

sirodoht wrote: post #94
ldjb wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for your comments. However, for certain languages it is important to specify the language in the HTML with the `lang` attribute. Otherwise incorrect glyphs may be displayed. More info: https://heistak.github.io/your-code-displays-japanese-wrong/

That's very interesting. Thank you for bringing it to my attention! Maybe a new setting to set the `lang` attribute is worth it.

That attribute could also let you easily group your users into different languages. If you wanted to add more discovery features or something and let people search by language. Not sure what your goal is around that. Maybe opt out of discovery by default or something.

Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

#108

Post by JoshTriplett »

sirodoht wrote: post #90
olah_1 wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was wondering about the typography too. Specifically for multi-language support, the chances are high that you’d want something better than the one default font they provide. Not to mention that you may want to edit the language meta code if you are writing in a different language.

I built mataroa. Not sure if your comment is referring to mataroa, but in case it is: I care a lot about typography and making a platform in which non-latin scripts can be read well. Mataroa does not provide any font. Rather, it uses the end user's system fonts. System fonts are most probably better than webfonts. They can define a large set of characters, including as many languages as they can, without caring about…

> Mataroa does not provide any font. Rather, it uses the end user's system fonts.

Thank you very much for this.

Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

#110

Post by Loic »

jolmg wrote: post #99
derekzhouzhen wrote: post #48

One nice thing I recognized is that the generated RSS feed contains full html text. I wish more blogging platforms are like this; save a lot of effort for feed readers. I'd also recommend to add open graph meta for the blog posts. Presumably people will want to share the posts somewhere; a nice set of open graph metas goes a long way.

> One nice thing I recognized is that the generated RSS feed contains full html text. I wish more blogging platforms are like this; save a lot of effort for feed readers. The reason some blogs don't include the whole thing in the RSS is because they want you to visit the site for the ad revenue. It's not an oversight. Blogging is (was?) a job for some people. It wasn't completely supported by ads, but ads are part of…

Maybe today, but I personally stopped providing full text in the feeds of my now defunct and free from advertising blog, because my content was directly vacuumed and inserted into a spammy full of advertising website.

This was around 2005 for what I can remember. Time is flying...

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