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Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by dspillett »

jiggawatts wrote: post #55
joelrunyon wrote: post #16

I've been yelling about this for years, but please start & own your own blog. Use webflow, ghost or whatever you like, but wordpress is good enough for most people. HN audience can likely handle their own, but if ease-of-setup is an issue - I created StartABlog.com to help people do this (and we'll actually set up your site for you for free - https://startablog.com/start ). Own your platform. Own your content. Own yo…

What's the best static site generator that meets the following requirements: a) Doesn't use node.js. b) Has built-in syntax highlighting for C#, SQL, PowerShell and Rust at a minimum. c) Is also good at "photo journals" or galleries. I played around with Hugo, but the themes were ugly and it was very weak at managing pictures associated with an entry instead of the entire site.

Any particular reason for "Doesn't use node.js", given that a static site generator isn't going to use the runtime once the site is (re)generated so you don't have any efficiency or stability concerns from your reader's PoV?

(I'm considering node for a personal project or two, though as much as possible avoiding the mess that NPM seems to be as the projects are small enough I can manage the few dependencies manually, so insight into pitfalls I'm not aware of could be useful)

Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by MangoCoffee »

Isinlor wrote: post #148
MangoCoffee wrote: post #141

"It’s always better to own your platform" - 100% i listen to some Joe Rogan's podcast when he got some interesting guests. i don't remember which one but Joe mentioned Twitter ban Zuby for a reply to someone with "OK, dude". i look up Zuby and yup. Twitter ban Zuby for saying "OK, dude" to someone. how the fuck is "OK, dude" hateful? Joe said Zuby is the nicest guy that he ever meet and Joe is right. they come for Zu…

Does hackernews act like publisher and doesn't want the responsibilities that come with it? Yes - they do act like publisher. There is even editorial guide called "guidelines". They will remove things they don't want. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html And no - hackernews should not bear the responsibility for whatever we decide to write here, unless it's unlawful. But I agree on "own your own platform"…

"own your own platform" - that we can all agree on.

Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by levosmetalo »

Isinlor wrote: post #148
MangoCoffee wrote: post #141

"It’s always better to own your platform" - 100% i listen to some Joe Rogan's podcast when he got some interesting guests. i don't remember which one but Joe mentioned Twitter ban Zuby for a reply to someone with "OK, dude". i look up Zuby and yup. Twitter ban Zuby for saying "OK, dude" to someone. how the fuck is "OK, dude" hateful? Joe said Zuby is the nicest guy that he ever meet and Joe is right. they come for Zu…

Does hackernews act like publisher and doesn't want the responsibilities that come with it? Yes - they do act like publisher. There is even editorial guide called "guidelines". They will remove things they don't want. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html And no - hackernews should not bear the responsibility for whatever we decide to write here, unless it's unlawful. But I agree on "own your own platform"…

Does that mean we should be writing comments on own platform, and just put links here instead of commenting on HN?

Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by tomjen3 »

jjcm wrote: post #40
realusername wrote: post #10

Another reason I host my own articles is that Medium is very heavy to load. Yes their design is great, but it's something that is achievable with a very small amount of CSS. This might not matter for a lot of people but I don't like how slow their platform is.

I actually found it to be not that terrible in comparison to some other sites that are out there today. Medium loads 17 scripts totalling about 2.4MB of js. For comparison, reddit loads 78 scripts totalling 7.5 MB. Is it heavy for such a simple blog? Yes absolutely. Is it heavy for a modern React app? Not really. I think the crux of it is that we often rely too much on heavy frameworks for React even for simple thing…

I just checked one of my longer articles and my website loads 11678 bytes including the article and 23.39kb, including CSS, custom fonts and and images.

I would think that 0.5mb should be more than enough.

Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by Anthony-G »

Before reading this story, I had been expecting that perhaps somebody had complained about article content and that the author had been banned from Medium so I was surprised to discover that this story was about the author being shadow-banned.

Shadow-banning is a useful tool for online forums but many moderators would usually considered it to be the last in a series of escalating steps that might be used for particularly troublesome users who ignore moderator warnings.

I wouldn't have expected a blogging platform to implement it and certainly not at the whim of an automatic spam filter. Even worse, its algorithm does not seem to take into account past behaviour or a positive reputation of the user before banning them; all articles are hidden due to a false positive in just one of them.

Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by axegon_ »

iamacyborg wrote: post #153
axegon_ wrote: post #126

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Um... No, it doesn't. > I write a post in markdown, commit and run a pelican-provided script that uploads the generated site to the hosting server. The script-running could be done with a hook. This is exactly what I don't want to deal with. Sure, I could use a ci service but this is a typical case of over-engineering a simple problem.

I use Pelican with hosting on Netlify. On my end I write a new markdown post and push it to Github. At that point Netlify takes over to rebuild and redeploy my site including the new post. It's pretty trivial to do. https://github.com/jacquescorbytuech/Blog https://www.jacquescorbytuech.com/

Trivial? Totally. Self-contained? Absolutely no.

Say Microsoft decides to kill github pages. OK, fine, next.

Now picture Netlify changing some policy, adding some pricing or killing off a service which you need(unlikely but not entirely impossible). You have to setup the whole thing all over again with someone else, be it circleci, jenkins, gitlab, etc. Though in different contexts, I've been in similar situations and by the third time I usually want to murder someone.

Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by AdmiralGinge »

saagarjha wrote: post #93
hamandcheese wrote: post #87

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a) seems like a very arbitrary restriction

Some people just don’t like that ecosystem, and that’s OK I guess.

I'm one of them, the most frustrating thing with working with modern JavaScript is definitely the ecosystem rather than the language. React Native is particularly an issue, the recommended react-native-community geolocation library just flat-out fails on many Android vendor's phones, and the replacement someone made for it still isn't exactly reliable (although to be fair, it only broke on OnePlus devices which were later patched so it could well have been an phone-level issue).

I get it, I shouldn't complain about the quality of open-source and freely offered software and the onus is on me to audit the libraries I put in my code, but blimey some people take an awful lot of liberty with the truth when they claim something is "production ready". I reckon a lot of people just build some rushed, poorly-written JavaScript libraries so they can pad out their CVs as an "open-source contributor" but the only thing they're actually contributing is a massive headache for muppets like me who foolishly use said code in their own projects.

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