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Re: Show HN my holiday project: thingsand.me, simple image blogging

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Post by lightyoruichi » Sat, Jan 08, 2011, 3:44 PM UTC

Hey, just checked it out. Awesome stuff, but what's the difference between this one and Posterous, or Tumblr?

Re: Show HN my holiday project: thingsand.me, simple image blogging

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Post by jorde » Sat, Jan 08, 2011, 4:07 PM UTC

mike-cardwell wrote: post #10

Very impressed. A few minor points though: I'm using Firefox 3.6.13 on a Macbook and every page appears to be a pixel or a few pixels wider than the window meaning there is an unnecessary horizontal scrollbar. It doesn't look very good. The login could do with SSL protection. If you don't have cookies enabled, trying to log in complains about a CSRF error. Might be worth detecting cookies being disabled and putting u…

Thanks for the notice. I'll look into FF problem. CSRF is taken care by Django and at the moment this being as a weekend project I don't any plans to support people without cookies.

Re: Show HN my holiday project: thingsand.me, simple image blogging

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Post by jorde » Sat, Jan 08, 2011, 4:09 PM UTC

oops wrote: post #14

Really nice idea and execution, well done! I already have a list growing in my head of friends who'll love this. BTW a small but prominent typo: "beatiful" on the front page.

Uups, how did I mist that one. Now fixed, thanks!

Re: Show HN my holiday project: thingsand.me, simple image blogging

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Post by jorde » Sat, Jan 08, 2011, 4:13 PM UTC

lightyoruichi wrote: post #21

Hey, just checked it out. Awesome stuff, but what's the difference between this one and Posterous, or Tumblr?

I tried to make much simpler and image focused service than Tumblr and Posterous. I love Tumblr and have been using it in the past but I feel it's too close to Blogger/Wordpress level blogging platform.

There's a reason why posts at Things are limited to only images with max 160 chars of text and link to source :)

Re: Show HN my holiday project: thingsand.me, simple image blogging

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Post by jorde » Sat, Jan 08, 2011, 4:15 PM UTC

tulensrma wrote: post #20

jorde wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a sucker for unicode hearts I'll test this out. Great idea

In case you didn't know, weheartit.com's extension symbol is a heart. Might be confusing for users of both services.

Haven't heard about this before. Thanks for pointing it out.

Re: Show HN my holiday project: thingsand.me, simple image blogging

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Post by pkamb » Sat, Jan 08, 2011, 9:39 PM UTC

Do you know about or are you influenced by: ffffound.com ? Great site.

Keeping it (or having an option to style it) VERY bare bones like that would be awesome.

Also, think about what you can do on your site that would be impossible on tumblr. For example I think they have a limit of something like 15 posts per page. Beat them in the images-only game.

Plans for custom domains?

Re: Show HN my holiday project: thingsand.me, simple image blogging

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Post by jorde » Sat, Jan 08, 2011, 11:36 PM UTC

pkamb wrote: post #26

Do you know about or are you influenced by: ffffound.com ? Great site. Keeping it (or having an option to style it) VERY bare bones like that would be awesome. Also, think about what you can do on your site that would be impossible on tumblr. For example I think they have a limit of something like 15 posts per page. Beat them in the images-only game. Plans for custom domains?

Agree, ffffound is awesome :)

You nailed it: limiting posts would be interesting approach but for now I just want people to get started. Have to think about it more.

Not sure about custom domain as the platform doesn't allow much customization. But lets see after it gains little traction. Until then I'll go with about.me approach.