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Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

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Post by chrisweekly »

sirodoht wrote: post #104
toshk wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Ok but using px instead of rem is already getting it wrong. See https://every-layout.dev/rudiments/units/

Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

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Post by Lammy »

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...

> my content was directly vacuumed and inserted into a spammy full of advertising website

For all its faults, this is something I have no shame invoking DMCA for. You still own the copyright on your writing even if you publish it for free online.

Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

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Post by Lammy »

jolmg wrote: post #100
lousyd wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Images are a feature many articles benefit from.

Agreed, but on a technical level it makes it harder for the client software to have to decide what to do with those resources. A plain-text post can sit on my drive for months until I get around to reading it with barely any impact on disk space usage.

With images I either have to eat the storage utilization for them or suffer a privacy leak by loading them when the post is opened. For the latter, there's always a small risk that a post could be deleted or an entire website vanish in between the time my feed updates and the time I open a post, in which case it would be left with text but broken images. I guess they could be inlined (like ``) to avoid that risk. It's even more obnoxiously complex if we're using the modern `picture`/`srcset`/etc to serve multiple resolutions and image formats for various screen sizes, connection speeds, and platforms.

Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

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Post by sirodoht »

chrisweekly wrote: post #131
sirodoht wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Ok but using px instead of rem is already getting it wrong. See https://every-layout.dev/rudiments/units/

Thanks for the article! I think I'm convinced—will probably change up some stuff on font sizes and container widths.

Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

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Post by garbagetime »

>Content in mataroa blogs is unfiltered and unmonitored. Users are free to publish any combination of words and pixels. However, content of animosity or disparagement of an individual or a group on account of a group characteristic such as race, colour, national origin, sex, disability, religion, or sexual orientation will be taken down immediately.

>If one notices something along those lines in a mataroa blog please let us know at admin@mataroa.blog.

There should probably be something explicit in there about what kinds of pornography is allowed on the site. Also, the first part of the paragraph seems contradicted by the second: I would say users aren't really free to publish any combination of words given the sentence that follows.

P.S. it looks like a great service

Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

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Post by sirodoht »

garbagetime wrote: post #136

>Content in mataroa blogs is unfiltered and unmonitored. Users are free to publish any combination of words and pixels. However, content of animosity or disparagement of an individual or a group on account of a group characteristic such as race, colour, national origin, sex, disability, religion, or sexual orientation will be taken down immediately. >If one notices something along those lines in a mataroa blog please…

Made a small adjustment to improve clarity in that paragraph. Thanks :)

Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

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Post by 41b696ef1113 »

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.

> Presumably people will want to share the posts somewhere; a nice set of open graph metas goes a long way.

Genuine question - what does this enable? I assume the big guys love the additional tagging for engaging similar content, but what else is there?

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