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Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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tomcam wrote: post #138
axegon_ wrote: post #65

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I agree. Many years ago I was really happy with medium as a reader. And the feed algorithm was decent enough. By no means the perfect content but for the most part it pushed forward things I was interested in. However, the monetization model turned medium(originally a decent blogging platform) into tumblr and it was a race to the bottom from that point. Any website that asks you to register in order to read a blog po…

> this is still a terrible thing to do. What’s the alternative, assuming the blogger doesn’t want to give everything away for free?

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Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by onion2k »

axegon_ wrote: post #197
iamacyborg wrote: post #153

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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 an…

You're overestimating Netlify's build tooling. It literally just spins up a virtual machine with Node on it, clones your repo, and does an `npm install && npm build`. When that finishes it copies the output directory to a server to host. Moving to a different host is a case of finding something that will let you do the `npm install && npm build` bit, which practically every modern hosting company does these days. Netlify's automated builds aren't even close to the complexity of running a CI process.

If you wanted to you could run the build process locally and commit the output HTML and CSS files to the repo, and the build process wouldn't even be necessary. You'd just need to copy the output files to a server using a git commit hook.

Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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axegon_ wrote: post #197
iamacyborg wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 an…

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Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by Isinlor »

levosmetalo wrote: post #194
Isinlor wrote: post #148

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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?

Hackernews is not really a platform for building a brand. We have no tools to follow specific people. I don't even care that much if you are the original person I was replaying to or not ;) . We are all random strangers to each other.

But if you have something substantial to say and want to put the effort, then write a blog post, build your own brand and own it.

Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by amelius »

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.

> What's the best static site generator that meets the following requirements: a) Doesn't use node.js.

So even if a node.js solution would be the best solution, you would still not want to use it? Why?

Anyway, I'd recommend to write a static site generator yourself. It isn't very difficult, you get exactly what you need, and you never get stuck because someone abandoned their project or doesn't want to fix the bugs you reported.

Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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dgellow wrote: post #75
jiggawatts wrote: post #55

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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.

Not a static site generator (if that's what you mean), but I personally went with Grav: https://getgrav.org/ . It's a small CMS written in modern PHP where the content is defined and managed via markdown files (so no need for a database). You have a bunch of themes and plugins directly installable through the admin interface and the documentation is good.

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Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by notahacker »

jacobolus wrote: post #182
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…

> the cancel culture in the West is destroying people from speaking freely All of the pundits complaining about “cancel culture” are themselves constantly demanding that various things be “canceled” (fired, taken off the air, defunded, boycotted, deported, imprisoned, ...). Not in every case, but as a general rule, “cancel culture has gone too far” is a hypocritical euphemism for “I don’t like it when people call out…

Yep. The desire to 'cancel' sentiments and people they don't like, or at least not grant them particular platforms is the societal default, not some kind of modern exception.

Transpeople have been 'cancelled' from all sorts of opportunities since time immemorial without a single person outraged at Zuby's short term Twitter suspension being prepared to defend them to the death...

Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by account42 »

jasonkester wrote: post #125
cube00 wrote: post #62

There's something dishonest about your profile appearing normal only to yourself, while the rest of the world is getting a 404. If you're suspended, fine, but tell the user, but why the need to hide this from them?

Indeed. It seems shady until you realize why sites do this. Probably the only way to truly understand is to run a site with user generated content for a while. There will be people using your site that just need to go away. They're different from your typical pharmaceutical spammer because they genuinely think they're not doing anything wrong. If you tell them to stop posting affiliate links to timeshares, they'll pu…

The problem, like with most moderation tools, is when shadowbans and similar measures are not just used against persistent spammers but as an easy way to shut out people without even trying to get them to improve their behavior. Something can be effective and dishonest at the same time.

Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by account42 »

jjcm wrote: post #45

Another thing I would echo here is that you don't necessarily need a CMS / WYSIWYG editor to run a great blog. A tiny script that dynamically compiles your markdown flavour of choice and has a nginx reverse proxy in front of it will be able to survive a reddit frontpage hit on a $5/mo vps, and it will be dead simple to set up. If you're looking to move off Medium, give it a try. If anyone is interested I'm happy to s…

At that point why not simply compile the markdown ahead of time and have a completely static server?
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