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How do you plan on making the business sustainable? Pretty much anyone can make this using Hugo, no?
If I wasn't already self-hosting ghost I would probably use this service.
I think this is great and easy for most people, but if you are a developer, you ought to host it on your own. There is no excuse.
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> 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.
How do you "invoke DMCA" on a random spam site? I've only heard it mentioned WRT central authority sites like YouTube, etc.
I think this is great and easy for most people, but if you are a developer, you ought to host it on your own. There is no excuse.
There is an easy excuse: time. Most people have better things to do than fiddle around with setting up a blog. The setting up process provides minimal value to most people.
You might as well give up on writing then.
Drew Devault gives out $20 to start your own blog. We need to perpetuate this culture, not oppose.
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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…
>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…
This seems far too broad, mainly because of the religious restriction. A blog on comparative religion could be removed for using the word "heterodox". Faith is a choice, unlike all the other protected characteristics in this list.
Great service, and an inspiration for https://smol.pub