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Let's make the web personal again

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Re: Let's make the web personal again

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Using tablets or phones doesn't necessarily mean tiny screens--although for the life of me, I can't understand why so few companies have put effort into making a phone with a UI that scales for regular screens. (I know they exist, don't sent me examples, thee point is that there are so few of them."

Samsung DEX.

That is innovation! I like scrcpy for controlling the phone from my desktop.

Re: Let's make the web personal again

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> Many people don't care about web culture; they only care about consuming. Strong disagree. People want to participate, they want to be part of a conversation. When you "consume" content on Facebook or Twitter, you can produce content and reasonably expect to get an audience - because you know there's other people there. If you have your own personal website, you have no natural audience. If you're lucky, Google mig…

> People want to participate, they want to be part of a conversation. Are you potentially speaking for a vocal minority here that wants to be part of a conversation while ignoring the many than simply read (consume)?

I don't think people do one thing. sometimes the read sometimes they like and sometimes they comment.

Re: Let's make the web personal again

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If this were true, SquareSpace would be trading way higher than they are now, Twitter wouldn't exist, and Facebook would look a lot like MySpace. My take: people created websites back then because there was no other choice. People RUSHED into MySpace when it got hot partly because of this. Many people don't care about web culture; they only care about consuming. Just like many people don't become screenwriters or dir…

This isn't true at all imho. People love to create. It's just that they are all using Snapchat/Tiktok/Instagram/etc... now instead of web sites.

Personally I hate it. But that's where all the creators are.

Re: Let's make the web personal again

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Is this something to do with Brian Lovin? I see the design of his personal site is a heavy influence, but didn't know it was open sourced? https://brianlovin.com/writing

It is open sourced here: https://github.com/brianlovin/briOS

As MIT, not as "tell people it's yours": https://github.com/Nym-HQ/nym/commit/3dda085064e745bd43f8b05...

Re: Let's make the web personal again

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Anyone know how a way to run a personal site for around $50 USD or under a year that can be pointed to a custom domain? My wife does some rug making and wants a portfolio available to show off her art, but we would prefer not to pay $10-20/month for such a site.

I've had excellent results with pointing people to Google Sites. The editor and available features work really well for just a static site for someone non-technical. You can set it up on a free Google account and point a custom domain name to it [1] very easily.

[1] https://support.google.com/sites/answer/9068867?hl=en

Re: Let's make the web personal again

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Is this something to do with Brian Lovin? I see the design of his personal site is a heavy influence, but didn't know it was open sourced? https://brianlovin.com/writing

The source code is really similar Not seeing Brian Lovin’s name in the LICENSE file in Nym either...

Good to see this fixed quickly: https://github.com/Nym-HQ/nym/commit/a3530463ee323b8ba492960...

Re: Let's make the web personal again

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The HN zeitgeist (at least as of 2021) was to use a static site generator like Hugo or Jekyll. Why would we want to use Nym — speaking as someone who doesn't use either, that is. When the itch to "small b blog" (love the term, by the way) came around, I built my own blogging frontend utilising GitHub Gists as the data store[1]. It's been working great so far, and uses basically no resources. [1] https://devnull.land/…

I write all my posts in Obsidian and export them to Hugo and it’s fantastic!

Honestly given HackerNews I was wondering if that was the actual rock at first.

Re: Let's make the web personal again

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The source code is really similar Not seeing Brian Lovin’s name in the LICENSE file in Nym either...

Good to see this fixed quickly: https://github.com/Nym-HQ/nym/commit/a3530463ee323b8ba492960...

After being caught, they called erasing Brian Lovin’s credit from the LICENSE file as “A huge oversight on our part”

https://twitter.com/nym_hq/status/1592176933445701633

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