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Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by cuu508 »

simula67 wrote: post #28
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…

How do you make sure you don't get hacked using Wordpress? I hosted my own blog for a short while and got hacked, so I moved back to Wordpress.com.

There are Wordpress plugins as well as SaaS services that export Wordpress site to a static site.

I've recommended Hardypress (https://hardypress.com/) a couple times here on HN. Still happy with them.

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DanBC wrote: post #157
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…

> Twitter ban Zuby No, they didn't. https://twitter.com/ZubyMusic

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Post by sails »

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.

Regarding (c), have a look at this jekyll theme [1] for photo galleries.

Jekyll is really nice to use, but the photo galleries are pretty few and far between.

Disclaimer, I couldn't get this to deploy using Github pages (which is nice) because it uses unsupported plugins. I have it split across two branches and works nicely enough. Certainly the most responsive gallery I've found.

Edit: removed direct link to the person's pictures :)

[1] https://github.com/dansku/photoGallery

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Post by anoncake »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Being honest and saying that the blog post is merely a teaser in the beginning.

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Post by darrenf »

axegon_ wrote: post #120
cxr wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Ideally I wanted not so much a generator but rather something that is completely self-contained. Essentially add a markdown or html file, commit and move on. Could you explain what you mean here?

As I said, make it fully self-contained without relying on "builds" or any other mumbo-jumbo, the way you would with sphinx or hugo or whatever. Essentially add a new html or markdown file, put whatever you want in it, let's call it "something.md". Then add a link from your index page to "#/something.md" and not deal with builds or styling or whatever, simply commit and move on and have it take care of all the html.…

Does Algernon fit the bill? https://github.com/xyproto/algernon

Quoting their README:

Web server with built-in support for QUIC, HTTP/2, Lua, Markdown, Pongo2, HyperApp, Amber, Sass(SCSS), GCSS, JSX, BoltDB (built-in, stores the database in a file, like SQLite), Redis, PostgreSQL, MariaDB/MySQL, rate limiting, graceful shutdown, plugins, users and permissions.

All in one small self-contained executable.

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Post by bishalb »

throwawaysea wrote: post #74

As a paying subscriber, I lost faith in Medium during COVID, when they started censoring and deleting posts that analyzed COVID data and information. Those speculative amateur posts often resulted in findings that went against the prevailing public health guidance or scientific consensus. While many were wrong, many of those early amateur posts ended up being correct on some counts as well. I feel they deserved a pla…

It's really sad. Not just medium but Facebook, twitter, YouTube all blocked such content/posts and tried to stifle the content creators. YouTube even permanently banned many channels. I didn't know medium did the same.

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Post by account42 »

notahacker wrote: post #217
jacobolus wrote: post #182

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> 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...

A yes, the good old "other people have been treated worse in the past so it's ok to treat that person badly now" argument.

Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by EdwardDiego »

OhSoHumble wrote: post #95

Something that wasn't mentioned is that there is a reading cap for Medium articles if the user doesn't pay. Something that is frustrating is finding some technical documentation for a project on Medium and being hit with "you hit your reading cap of 5 stories..." and having to open up an incognito window. That is dumb. I shouldn't have to pay money to get around a pay wall for a project's technical documentation.

Haha yep, hit a Go logging library where the documentation was a link to a Medium post. That raised my eyebrows.

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Post by fastball »

bishalb wrote: post #225
fastball wrote: post #160

If you're in the "medium is still suitable for some use cases" camp, I think you should just use Ghost[1] instead. - great for casual blogging - very cheap to host - monetization tools built-in [1] https://ghost.org/

Or plain old WordPress

WordPress is very slow (objectively) and much more complex to get started with (subjectively). Also the security model of WP isn't great (PHP/MySQL/etc).
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