> Fuck Chrome users on Macs, too, unless you are a web designer or developer.
I'm not a Mac user, but why is it so bad to use Chrome on a Mac?
Fuck Medium
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Re: Fuck Medium
#32This made me wonder 'Hey, could I just block Quora and Medium from my Google results altogether?' Yep! There's an extension. No more towardsdatascience to trawl through, hooray! https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublacklist/pncfbmi...
Pintrest images from search too. There's an extension for that as well, but in the interest of having fewer extensions you can just search with `-site:pinterest.*`
It would probably be nice to have a “Filter all sites with paywalls” checkbox that might get some sites reconsidering their walls.
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#33Maybe I'm just living in 2008, but... what's wrong with just self-hosting a simple blog? Wordpress gets a lot of well-deserved hate (especially regarding feature bloat and security), but it's also very simple to spin up. A VPS is a couple bucks a month, and many hosts have a preconfigured ready-to-rock Wordpress image for less technical users. It's obviously not the best solution if you want to monetize, but there ar…
> many hosts have a preconfigured ready-to-rock Wordpress image for less technical users.
I used one, and it was kept up to date by the hosting provider, and everything was great until it got hacked. And then the hosting company suspended my account, unless I bought some expensive security solution or fixed my site myself and proved it was safe. I ended up rebuilding the site as a static site and changing hosts. Anecdotal, but I won't bother with a self-hosted Wordpress again. It wasn't a noname hosting provider, either.
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#34I dont get the hate. What are the options anyway? For a single author that want to make some money, Medium is probably the most convenient service. I suspect that it would be much harder to make money by hosting your own Wordpress blog for instance.
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#35What really amazes me is that there isn't a similar blogging platform that is open source, easy to deploy and at least a little visually pleasing. I'm a developer, so I could use a static site generator, but I would like to deploy a blog for my mother, and I just couldn't find anything that fits the criteria. My personal blog at okigiveup.net is running on a nearly 8-year-old version of Ghost, which I can't update, b…
>What really amazes me is that there isn't a similar blogging platform that is open source, easy to deploy and at least a little visually pleasing.
That's literally Wordpress. Installed by default on almost every shared host anywhere. There's even a free tier on wordpress.com.
I've tried static site generators - Lektor was the latest - but every one of them fell short of what I wanted in some way or another. But Wordpress always works.
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#36I dont get the hate. What are the options anyway? For a single author that want to make some money, Medium is probably the most convenient service. I suspect that it would be much harder to make money by hosting your own Wordpress blog for instance.
A blog shouldn't be a business model anyway. If you're good enough to attract and keep an audience, literally any other venue for writing work is probably more lucrative than blogging. Writing scripts and making Youtube videos would probably make more money.
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#37Maybe I'm just living in 2008, but... what's wrong with just self-hosting a simple blog? Wordpress gets a lot of well-deserved hate (especially regarding feature bloat and security), but it's also very simple to spin up. A VPS is a couple bucks a month, and many hosts have a preconfigured ready-to-rock Wordpress image for less technical users. It's obviously not the best solution if you want to monetize, but there ar…
For developers, what I did was put my blog up on Github Pages. It's still on the GH subdomain, but I can get a custom domain for it as well.
I mean I don't actually actively use it despite my great Intent a few years back, but still.
Re: Fuck Medium
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pintrest images from search too. There's an extension for that as well, but in the interest of having fewer extensions you can just search with `-site:pinterest.*`
It would probably be nice to have a “Filter all sites with paywalls” checkbox that might get some sites reconsidering their walls.
I hope Google finally takes a stand against paywalls and popups themselves by deranking them. They already have a policy that a site is not allowed to hide info from users that they do show search engine crawlers.
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#39Color me as slightly disappointed that this piece wasn't published on Medium.