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Re: Bold: Make Your Words Stand Out

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Post by chasing »

As an aside: I do not like the idea behind the Hemingway app. Editing prose is not the same as debugging code. Removing adverbs will not make you a good writer. And the whole idea of having some bot making automated comments on my text as I write it sounds distracting at best.

If you want to write better, write more. And let people read your writing. Hear what they have to say. Style handbooks like "Writing with Style" or "The Elements of Style" are great, but you should attempt to understand the reasons they behind their recommendations, not just use them as a mindless checklist.

Craft your own voice.

Re: Bold: Make Your Words Stand Out

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Post by davidbyttow »

jdavis703 wrote: post #17
guywithabike wrote: post #4

This basic post with two images (four counting the logo and author avatar) clocks in at 30 requests and a plump 6.10 MB. Bold!

I'm clocking in at 5.1MB which is still huge, but 4.4MB are from images alone. However their biggest image is a 2.8MB 24-bit monster PNG. That really could be a JPEG, with moderate compression it could come in at only a few hundred kilobyes I think.

Thanks for the heads up guys!

We spent a good amount of time compressing our blocking bundle size (html, JS, CSS), which actually is JS for the entire app, not just that page. Certainly have more work to do, but given the amount of code, our JS/CSS is pretty low.

I just compressed the large image and it dropped to ~430KB.

Meanwhile, the other large asset is the animated GIF, which I suppose we could switch to a looping webm/mp4. Was hard to reduce the GIF further and keep the same quality...

Where's Pied Piper when you need them?

Re: Bold: Make Your Words Stand Out

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Post by ux-app »

asimuvPR wrote: post #7

Is this a new blogging engine? I can't seem to get a proper mental picture for some reason.

It's not that complicated.

The second paragraph.

  > 'Bold aims to provide the best experience for reading and writing long-form content at work so that your best ideas can be heard.'
Seems like an unique and interesting product. My work doesn't involve writing 'long-form content', so I'm not in the target market but I didn't find it hard to work out what it does.

Re: Bold: Make Your Words Stand Out

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Post by King-Aaron »

ux-app wrote: post #23
asimuvPR wrote: post #7

Is this a new blogging engine? I can't seem to get a proper mental picture for some reason.

It's not that complicated. The second paragraph. > 'Bold aims to provide the best experience for reading and writing long-form content at work so that your best ideas can be heard.' Seems like an unique and interesting product. My work doesn't involve writing 'long-form content', so I'm not in the target market but I didn't find it hard to work out what it does.

So...

Is it a blogging engine? A notepad app? A ... ?

Re: Bold: Make Your Words Stand Out

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Post by trymas »

Why this gets so many upvotes? Just out of curiosity to know what it is (though personally it does not excite me)?

It's a bloated site - bold [0], people do not understand what it is [1][2], seems like a Medium clone [3], it does not seem to solve any problems [4].

To add from myself, to block ambient noise I launch my preferred music player with my likeable music, which blocks noise and does not distract me (same with many colleagues of mine), IMHO it's useless feature to have ambient music in you word processor.

Also, do we really need another (too) clean, (too) minimalistic, hipster writing/blogging platform, which looks like Medium clone and is probably 'made with [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11858972

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11859159

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11859201

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11858750

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11858795

Re: Bold: Make Your Words Stand Out

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Post by oneeyedpigeon »

davidbyttow wrote: post #22
jdavis703 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm clocking in at 5.1MB which is still huge, but 4.4MB are from images alone. However their biggest image is a 2.8MB 24-bit monster PNG. That really could be a JPEG, with moderate compression it could come in at only a few hundred kilobyes I think.

Thanks for the heads up guys! We spent a good amount of time compressing our blocking bundle size (html, JS, CSS), which actually is JS for the entire app, not just that page. Certainly have more work to do, but given the amount of code, our JS/CSS is pretty low. I just compressed the large image and it dropped to ~430KB. Meanwhile, the other large asset is the animated GIF, which I suppose we could switch to a loopi…

> We spent a good amount of time compressing our blocking bundle size (html, JS, CSS), which actually is JS for the entire app, not just that page

The problem with this approach is that, whilst it might be great for readers that view > n pages, the experience for viewing the first page is so terrible that many won't get past that one. It's still running at 37 requests, 2.7 MB, and 4.2 seconds even after your optimisations. Didn't load at all on my iPad.

If the javascript is for editing, it's clearly wasteful to deliver that to people who definitely won't be doing any editing; isn't it possible to defer that until it's needed?

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