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One thing I really like on Medium is the composing experience. It's simple and beautiful. Sometimes I forget what a game changer that can be. But the Medium experience has been strong enough that I do almost all my writing there (even before you could have an audience).
Looks interesting - to me it seems similar in a lot of ways to svbtle, at least as far as what they are trying to do. Its a small thing, but I'm somewhat turned off by the urls - urls like https://medium.com/c/e2e5df2e6649 feel like something out of an early 2000's CMS...
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"Twitter's traditionally one of the best examples of real-world cool URIs." Do you mind expanding on this? I thought hashbangs were a rape and pillage of URI convention.
Hashbangs existed for a very short period of Twitter's life. They were a mistake. They're gone now.
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http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI should be required reading for every designer, developer, and stakeholder who is involved in building any kind of product on the web.
For sure. And it's funny coming from Obvious. Twitter's traditionally one of the best examples of real-world cool URIs. Hopefully it's just a prototype thing, but you'd think they'd want even these early URLs to be shared with love.
URI design is hard, especially when you're dealing with a single namespace on a site with massive scale like Twitter. But if everyone has their own namespace (it seems Medium is a good candidate for this), then you could as well use a human-readable timestamp in UTC (yyyy/mm/dd/hh-mm-ss), but they might be an eyesore for some.
The fashion these days tends to be short, mixed-case, untypable URIs that don't look like they'll stand the test of time.
Lift - http://lift.do/ - tagline is "achieve anything" - give us your email. Nothing else.
Branch - http://branch.com/ - was on HN the other day and has a pretty video, but I have no idea what they actually do as a product/service.
Medium - http://medium.com/ - despite the nice blog post, I still have no idea what they do.
Ev & co are undoubtably talented and they're working on what seems to be some cool stuff, but I feel like I've read a bunch of stuff about what they're doing and still have NO IDEA what it is they're doing.
Is this just me?
Looks interesting - to me it seems similar in a lot of ways to svbtle, at least as far as what they are trying to do. Its a small thing, but I'm somewhat turned off by the urls - urls like https://medium.com/c/e2e5df2e6649 feel like something out of an early 2000's CMS...
Okay, I love the simplicity behind Obvious' work, but I'm seriously confused about what the purpose behind some of these projects. Lift - http://lift.do/ - tagline is "achieve anything" - give us your email. Nothing else. Branch - http://branch.com/ - was on HN the other day and has a pretty video, but I have no idea what they actually do as a product/service. Medium - http://medium.com/ - despite the nice blog post,…
Okay, I love the simplicity behind Obvious' work, but I'm seriously confused about what the purpose behind some of these projects. Lift - http://lift.do/ - tagline is "achieve anything" - give us your email. Nothing else. Branch - http://branch.com/ - was on HN the other day and has a pretty video, but I have no idea what they actually do as a product/service. Medium - http://medium.com/ - despite the nice blog post,…
On the Lift side, try reading this blog post, Everything There Is To Know About Lift: http://blog.lift.do/post/25435255834/everything-there-is-to-...