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Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

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Post by derekzhouzhen »

Loic wrote: post #110
jolmg wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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...

Unethical people is going to do whatever they can. Life is much more enjoyable if you just ignore them and whatever shit they are going to do with the content you willingly shared with the world for free.

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Post by jolmg »

gumby wrote: post #118
jolmg wrote: post #100

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Images are a feature many articles benefit from.

De gustibus I suppose, but to me, “Images are a feature many or most articles use and which a very small number benefit from.”

You're right. I shouldn't have said many. I forgot some like to put memes in their articles. I still think the ability to use images can be important, depending on topic. Quite simply a blog about anything graphics-related would benefit.

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Post by axiolite »

crummy wrote: post #117
axiolite wrote: post #116

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> my content was directly vacuumed This happens with the HTML contents just as easily. Perhaps just include a unique identifier in the text per client, and a link back to the source.

> This happens with the HTML contents just as easily. On an individual scale, yes. But if you're a spammer and want to vaccuum up text from 1000 sites, you'll skip writing a scraper for individual sites (which may change their formatting later anyway) and just use reliably-formatted RSS feeds.

That was probably true back in 2004, but today there are numerous reader view, full text converter, and advanced web spider projects that anybody can plug in and get the full text from at least 90% of web sites, with no extra effort.

Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

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Post by gumby »

jolmg wrote: post #125
gumby wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

De gustibus I suppose, but to me, “Images are a feature many or most articles use and which a very small number benefit from.”

You're right. I shouldn't have said many. I forgot some like to put memes in their articles. I still think the ability to use images can be important, depending on topic. Quite simply a blog about anything graphics-related would benefit.

I've been told Medium requires a huge photo at the top of each post, regardless if it makes sense or not for the article. Most of the time those articles are simply junk.

Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

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Post by derekzhouzhen »

lousyd wrote: post #97
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.

I haven't checked it out yet, but... Wouldn't one not want html text in the feed, if one chose to use a blogging platform whose focus was text and simplicity? I prefer to read feeds with plain text myself.

Most sane feed readers sanitize the html down to a dumb level; just headings, paragraphs, links and some inline images. If you only have the text to begin with, hyper-links won't work.
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