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Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by jedimastert »

ralls_ebfe wrote: post #350
jedimastert wrote: post #297

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My brother wanted to start writing about his recovery process[0] and asked me to help him make a blog. He said he wanted to learn a bunch of stuff so he could be self-sufficient enough to not have to ask me/"need my permission" to go from written post to publish. He had already bought a domain that came with some bottom-of-the-barrel free shared hosting service. I pointed him towards Wordpress, he set up the entire t…

Both URLs fail for me due to SSL issues.

That's awkward...

The top one just doesn't have it, the bottom is misspelled

amtunlimited.github.io

Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by cozzyd »

axegon_ wrote: post #311
cozzyd wrote: post #290

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So you're talking about a static site generator implemented in javascript in the browser? I don't see why it wouldn't work as long as the webserver supported directory listings, but it would obviously completely break for clients not using javascript. The simplest solution I've used is to just have a Makefile that indexes and stitches together pages using cat/sed/ls. Sure, you have to run make (and possibly make uplo…

Essentially yes, this is what my personal site is currently running(though it is empty as it stands, largely due to time constraints). Except I wrote it in Dart because I abhor javascript with a passion, even if the final output is still javascript.

Yeah, I also am guilty of liking to write static site generators more than liking to actually write something!

Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by [deleted] »

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

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> 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.…

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Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by Terretta »

mholt wrote: post #303
Terretta wrote: post #300

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Posted this deeper in thread, also noting up here: Just serve your markdown git repo using Caddy. https://caddyserver.com/docs/markdown ”Caddy is both a flexible, efficient static file server and a powerful, scalable reverse proxy. Use it to serve your static site with compression, template evaluation, Markdown rendering, and more.” https://caddyserver.com/ Here’s a blog on doing this with the older version of Caddy:…

FYI our v1 site went away this week (we've had redirects for about 7 months now). Here's the link to the v2 docs for markdown rendering with templates: https://caddyserver.com/docs/modules/http.handlers.templates...

Redirects may have been wrong form? This was top link in Google and DDG for ‘caddy markdown’... but to your point, it didn’t respond. So I figured right page based off of the snippet and visited status. Right form of redirect should update the index, no longer show the old page.

Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by jiggunjer »

hunter2_ wrote: post #344
jiggunjer wrote: post #305

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Sure. Just invent your own Internet.

Is this actually a valid (albeit not feasible, but theoretically valid) answer to the question though? I didn't capitalize the I in my question, but I should have, because I do mean for it to be interoperable / peered.

I think so? If you run your radio transmitter. Just tell peers what frequency. Though if some company decides to build a large relay node infrastructure, you'd need some crypto verification to keep them off Yournet.

Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by LdSGSgvupDV »

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…

For one being capable of using docker and traefik 2 (with letencrypt), [1]https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#blo...

Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by da-x »

jlokier wrote: post #306
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…

Counterpoint (devil's advocate): When you get sick, poor or die, your own platform will almost certainly disappear, taking your content and ideas with it. If it's on Medium, your content is more likely to survive your demise.

Assuming that Github static pages infrastructure is maintained without breaking CNAMEs for the next half century, and assuming you pay for your domain 50 years in advance, maybe the static website can remain for that long?

Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by jlokier »

chipotle_coyote wrote: post #323
jlokier wrote: post #306

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Counterpoint (devil's advocate): When you get sick, poor or die, your own platform will almost certainly disappear, taking your content and ideas with it. If it's on Medium, your content is more likely to survive your demise.

That assumes Medium survives your demise, which strikes me as a somewhat bold assumption to make.

I suspect the content on Medium is now sufficiently valued that if Medium doesn't stay around, someone will make sure the content is copied and served somewhere else.

Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by rolandtshen »

I've been building Imprint (https://imprint.to) these past few months to provide a better home for ideas. It's centralized like Medium, but has a focus on content ownership. You can use custom domains, own your content through our policies, and know that your content won't be altered or removed spontaneously. We also promise that in the event of the platform shutting down, we'll notify you to export your posts 3 months in advance.

Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by nicbou »

vikramkr wrote: post #252
nicbou wrote: post #176

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Everyone says they'd do that, but I find really hard to believe. I create rare, valuable information that saves people money and headaches. On a good month, 2% of my revenue will come from donations. Usually, it's 0%. At best, it pays for a meal and a beer. This website has 135k page views per month. If that's how much I get from teaching people how to navigate German bureaucracy, I doubt you'll make anything from yo…

I dont think you can make money by sharing information to individuals in that sort of way today. There are people that manage to do it (self help books and all) but I dont think people will pay for online content. I can think of 3 ways that this might be monetize able. The first is to put it into a book. People will buy books. The second is targeting businesses. They'll pay for market research etc. And the third is o…

I can. It's how I pay the bills.

I insist on keeping the content unconditionally free, and donations don't work, but affiliate marketing does. I help people navigate certain boring purchases, so it lends itself to that sort of monetisation. I'd be recommending those products and services anyway.

Unfortunately, it incentivizes dishonest recommendations and passing ads as content. I chose not to do that, but I know I'd get paid more to recommend the wrong things. Since it's blended into the content, you'd be abusing people's trust in your content. At least banner ads were separate from the text.

I do not offer services either. My goal was to help as many people as possible, and that would go against it. Information should be free, especially when poor people need it the most. I also want the website to run itself. If I wanted to be on the computer full time, I'd just get a job.

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