I appreciate the no-bs lightweight website sentiment as much as anyone, but I think there's also something to be said about drastically improving readability with some line-height and font styling.
Coming soon, the http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ equivalent.
Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform
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Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform
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I really recommend https://write.as/ for those looking for minimalism with a bit more styling
FWIW I personally much prefer Bear's style over Write.as. Both from an aesthetic and readability point of view. At least for the landing page. Everything fits on one screen, the font size is much more bearable, there's no unnecessary columnization or links to other parts of the site.
write.as does support custom CSS and JS, so you can, in theory, make look however you want. It isn't quite as light as Bear is, but it's no Medium either.
Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform
#113For other similar-ish related tools/writing platforms: * https://write.as/ * http://txti.es/ * http://telegra.ph/ * https://txt.fyi/ * https://verbatim.link/ * https://www.pastery.net/ * http://ix.io/ * https://commentpara.de/ * https://rwtxt.com/ * https://distbin.com/
Of those it seems only telegra.ph has a good UI allowing easy link/photos embedding, and the result is really pleasing. All the others need to rely on a third party. Is it open-source ?
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Coming soon, the http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ equivalent.
It's so hard to take a site with serif fonts seriously. It would be worth the 8th css declaration if the author added `font-family: sans-serif;`.
I don't have data to back it up, but I've understood from typography gurus that sans-serif fonts are great for signs, short blurbs, etc. But for long (multi-paragraph) reads serif fonts reduce eye fatigue. I think blogs typically fit in that category.
Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform
#115“Bear” is a well-known note-taking and writing app https://bear.app/
Ditto. I thought this is a new product by bear. Got me excited for a bit.
I wonder if trademark would kick in later for this.
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Sans serifs are overused because they look better on low resolution screens. If you haven't had to use a low resolution screen in a while then you are one of the privileged few.
At small sizes , like 8–13px, sans-serifs look better than serifs. And user interfaces and websites used to be that size. But for 16px and up, which is what websites of today use, serifs are perfectly fine even on 1× displays (though sure, they’ll look better still on higher-DPI displays, but so will sans-serifs). I should clarify that it depends on the font. Sans-serifs tend to have fairly even stroke width, but ser…
Are you sure that "websites of today" use 16px or larger universally? HN appears to use 9pt Verdana, which I believe is equivalent to 12px on my Windows system if my math is correct.
Georgia is a terribly underrated font. I'm sure it's heavily hinted to look good at small sizes, but even at large sizes it has an elegance that is lacking in e.g. Times Roman.
Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform
#117Like the idea here, but think it would be more useful and exciting to have a better readable format.
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Yes, that's what I mean. But only Hashify still exists apparently...
Yeah, the pages linked from those HN links don't seem to exist, but you can still download it: https://github.com/lucaspiller/shortly I was always quite fascinated by the concept, but I suspect liability and lack of control over the content is a fatal issue and why nothing much seemed to come from it. If someone makes a 'bad' page, which is inevitable, the domain with the hashify/shortly code would be held responsibl…
> Storing a document in a URL is nifty, but not terribly practical. Hashify uses the [bit.ly API][4] to shorten URLs from as many as 30,000 characters to just 20 or so. In essence, bit.ly acts as a document store! [1]
bit.ly et al. seem to be able to get away with being agnostic processors. I'm surprised there haven't been more stories about their services being abused.
[1] https://hashify.me/IyBIYXNoaWZ5CgpIYXNoaWZ5IGRvZXMgbm90IHNvb...
Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform
#119For other similar-ish related tools/writing platforms: * https://write.as/ * http://txti.es/ * http://telegra.ph/ * https://txt.fyi/ * https://verbatim.link/ * https://www.pastery.net/ * http://ix.io/ * https://commentpara.de/ * https://rwtxt.com/ * https://distbin.com/
For other bear-themed writing tools: * https://bear.app/
For anyone who is interested in this - it is great and you can export all your Apple notes.app stuff (inc images) with the mac app Exporter, then import into Bear.app.
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Georgia is a decent serif that will typically be available. Or just `font-family: serif` which will most commonly be Times New Roman or similar, but will be whatever we prefer for those few of us that set the default fonts.
Georgia is a fantastic serif font; it's actually the recommended default font for when you're formatting an ebook.
It's why I used Georgia as the preferred font for https://shouldiblockads.com/ (mixed with a sans-serif "default UI font" stack).