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Re: Svbtle for Wordpress

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Post by hdevalence2 »

craigmccaskill wrote: post #29
samstave wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Unfortunately, the implementation is, in my experience, not very good, because it's not consistent. Sometimes it shows up, and other times it doesn't, so you can't rely on it, and you have to make sure that you click perfectly every time in case it doesn't pop up. Which effectively negates the usefulness of the feature.

Re: Svbtle for Wordpress

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Post by alanh »

This is great — solves the big problem that would keep me, personally, from blogging on Svbtle, and a lesson I learned from my startup (see link): Basically, new blog platforms kinda suck due to a lack of features/interop/import/export/customizability. See: http://alanhogan.com/the-problem-with-new-blog-platforms for the story.

Re: Svbtle for Wordpress

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Post by huggyface »

chc wrote: post #21
huggyface wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.)

Uh, that's the title of his own blog post.

And few others could get away with that without being eviscerated as self-aggrandizers.

The ongoing discussion has not involved other people talking about Dustin Curtis much at all.

There is incredibly little that is compelling in what Curtis is pitching (in fact I find it all a bit laughably naive. His overarching goal seems to be to create the next The Verge or something? And some minor tweaks of blog authoring is going to make that happen?) It lit a certain niche of the web on fire because it was pitched by someone with a high PageRank, achieved via pretty pernicious tactics (the outrageous 3.5 inch bit being prime). Then everyone starts their clones and offshoots and discussions because they want a piece of the traffic attention.

I asked in my original comment in this post "What are those aspects [that resulted in it hitting the top of Hacker News]?" No one has answered. I have yet to see anyone describe why this deserves any attention at all.

Re: Svbtle for Wordpress

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Post by sycren »

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…

I agree and sometimes its nice to have an uncluttered interface to work with.

I find it easier to work with a full screen minimalistic editor [1,2] when writing than say word..

1 http://www.codealchemists.com/jdarkroom/ 2 http://www.ommwriter.com/

Re: Svbtle for Wordpress

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Post by vikvik »

pace wrote: post #2

Incredible how Svbtle got popular and a creator who doesn't seem to be too happy about its evolution. Good read on that http://therain.posterous.com/dustin-curtis-single-mistake-wi...

I am very confused. The author of the article writes that svbtle could have been the next tumblr. It's like saying my clean design html could have been the future facebook.

I think svbtle has a clean design and a good interface, nothign more.

If my instincts here are wrong, then I have to question my understanding and all the IT experience I have. I might be missing a big part of this svbtle and obtvse controversy.

Re: Svbtle for Wordpress

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Post by vikvik »

pace wrote: post #2

Incredible how Svbtle got popular and a creator who doesn't seem to be too happy about its evolution. Good read on that http://therain.posterous.com/dustin-curtis-single-mistake-wi...

I am very confused. The author of the article writes that svbtle could have been the next tumblr. It's like saying my clean design html could have been the future facebook.

I think svbtle has a clean design and a good interface, nothign more.

If my instincts here are wrong, then I have to question my understanding and all the IT experience I have. I might be missing a big part of this svbtle and obtvse controversy.

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