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Re: Svbtle for Wordpress

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Post by chc »

huggyface wrote: post #17
samstave wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is no cult of personality at play here. There has really been zero talk of Curtis the person as opposed to Svbtle the thing.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3742314 "Codename: Svbtle by Dustin Curtis" Zero talk, when it's right in the title? Never have I seen such egregious inflation of a project because of the personality.

Uh, that's the title of his own blog post. The ongoing discussion has not involved other people talking about Dustin Curtis much at all. (Which is a shame, I think, as he deserves the credit.)

Re: Svbtle for Wordpress

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Post by nullflux »

ssharp wrote: post #6
j_c wrote: post #3

Curtis' abilities surrounding marketing, PR and his brand has and will continue to drive this product. Not the technology. Copycats can build the technology, but that's it. All the aspects of the product that have resulted it reaching the top of HackerNews are unfortunately a lot harder to reproduce.

> Curtis' abilities surrounding marketing, PR and his brand has and will continue to drive this product. Not the technology. I wasn't sure who Curtis was, so I looked him up. From his own sites, it wasn't apparent at all. I guess he is a superhero or villain, depending on which site of his you look at. So why is his brand so strong?

Because he does two things really well that build huge brands around specific people:

1. Acts like he knows everything and acts like a polarizing, arrogant ass

(I've never met him, so who knows if he actually is an arrogant ass. The majority of people I have met that act like that seem not to be IRL. It's often a persona.)

2. Consistently writes blog posts that cause a lot of controversy (e.g. get people fired, give more famous people you know a spotlight to write content for you, etc.)

I'm not bashing Curtis with the above, even though my tone seems pejorative. It's just true, and it's the same way most political talking heads and radio personalities work. Curtis is basically something like the Howard Stern of the YC set.

Re: Svbtle for Wordpress

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Post by samstave »

antidaily wrote: post #15
samstave wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Argh! I accidentally downvoted you when I meant to upvote you. Damn tiny arrows on the phone and no ability to reverse votes. My digital apologies.

Yeah, maybe it should be a circle you hover your mouse over for a second.

I have always thought this about the iPhone (and smartphones in general)

When you put your finger to the screen, it should "bubble zoom" clickable links. and you could slide around to get the exact link you intend to.

Viewing pages with tiny clickables meant for the precision of the mouse is infuriating.

Re: Svbtle for Wordpress

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Post by jh3 »

samstave wrote: post #12
jh3 wrote: post #8

So much publicity for Curtis over the last couple weeks.

Argh! I accidentally downvoted you when I meant to upvote you. Damn tiny arrows on the phone and no ability to reverse votes. My digital apologies.

Haha, no problem at all.

Re: Svbtle for Wordpress

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Post by [deleted] »

dpritchett wrote: post #16
puppybeard wrote: post #9

I like the look of it, and I like the idea behind it. It's not for me, but it's still nice. I don't see how it's supposed to be a Panacea though. Are there people out there who have great difficulty blogging?

It's called writer's block and it's pretty much universal. The point is to streamline the content creation process so that there are no distractions between you and the work. Hopefully produce more and better work when you can really focus on the craft. Once a blog post gets to the "nearly finished" state then you can deal with the 5000 options WordPress offers around every post, such as tags and crosslinking old pos…

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Re: Svbtle for Wordpress

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Post by craigmccaskill »

samstave wrote: post #25
antidaily wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, maybe it should be a circle you hover your mouse over for a second.

I have always thought this about the iPhone (and smartphones in general) When you put your finger to the screen, it should "bubble zoom" clickable links. and you could slide around to get the exact link you intend to. Viewing pages with tiny clickables meant for the precision of the mouse is infuriating.

Chrome (currently available as a beta on ICS android devices) does this.

Re: Svbtle for Wordpress

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Post by alanh »

samstave wrote: post #25
antidaily wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, maybe it should be a circle you hover your mouse over for a second.

I have always thought this about the iPhone (and smartphones in general) When you put your finger to the screen, it should "bubble zoom" clickable links. and you could slide around to get the exact link you intend to. Viewing pages with tiny clickables meant for the precision of the mouse is infuriating.

Try Opera’s mobile browsers. I believe they do essentially this (and have been for years). You can even install it to your iPhone. (And PPK of Quirksmode.org fame says you definitely should, because we devs tend to pretend the mobile world is mostly Webkit, but the reality is still a bit more diverse than that.)

(I see Chrome/Android gets a mention for doing this. It’s kind of funny: Chrome seems to get the credit for features Opera invented, over and over; on desktop: Tabs-on-top. Speed dial. Keyword search. Etc. Of course, I still really respect the Chrome team for being really smart about what features to steal to make a great UX, but Opera deserves love for being such a pioneer!)

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