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Re: Blot turns a folder into a website

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Post by berkes »

myself248 wrote: post #44
lpointal wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you want to serve pages without an http[s] server ?

The next innovation I expect to see on HN is a service that, on a set schedule, gathers articles about a set of topics that you follow, prints them out onto paper, and delivers them to you as a bound volume for easy perusal. This has a number of advantages for privacy (there's no way for the publishers to know how much time you spent reading each story), offline-first availability (dead-tree is the ultimate), and sha…

You are joking, but I honestly would like it to get a personalized weekly collection of articles, a wiki lemma, a comic or two and some reviews delivered as PDF or on paper.

The crux being that it's personalized. It could use my Pocket, RSS reader, reddit/hn voting habits, even my bookmarks db as inspiration. I don't know or care, as long as it manages to deliver me a week's worth every week. Filled with content that I'm going to like 90% of the time, i'd love it and pay for it. I'd even accept ads every few pages.

Re: Blot turns a folder into a website

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Post by marginalia_nu »

PaulDavisThe1st wrote: post #49
myself248 wrote: post #46

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Web browsers can render more than just HTML, can't they? Plain text at the very least, many do PDF as well. That function really seems like it should be in the browser anyway. The server serves, the renderer renders.

if the server side file format has something semantically similar to #include then your lovely simple binary model fails (without browsers having the same)

HTML has this, yet browsers seem to cope...?

Re: Blot turns a folder into a website

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Post by superkuh »

You know what else turns a folder into a website? Installing nginx from your distro repositories. Then every folder beneath the www dir is a website. I'm not joking around. Files in folders is really the best way to make websites.

Re: Blot turns a folder into a website

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Post by jll29 »

myself248 wrote: post #44
lpointal wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you want to serve pages without an http[s] server ?

The next innovation I expect to see on HN is a service that, on a set schedule, gathers articles about a set of topics that you follow, prints them out onto paper, and delivers them to you as a bound volume for easy perusal. This has a number of advantages for privacy (there's no way for the publishers to know how much time you spent reading each story), offline-first availability (dead-tree is the ultimate), and sha…

You can get a subset of the English Wikipedia printed and bound, that gives you even more privacy, as you don't need to share the topics you are interested in with any electronic service.

Hint: Using a public (book) library also means your reading behavior is tracked by intelligence agencies, unfortunately, so you need to own the books you may want to read.

Re: Blot turns a folder into a website

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Post by Sephr »

lolinder wrote: post #58
Sephr wrote: post #52

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Please increase your pricing transparency. I could not easily figure out the price of your hosted service without having to use a search engine. Blot[1] (open source software) turns a folder into a website, and blot.im offers a hosted Blot service for $5/mo. 1. https://github.com/davidmerfield/blot

To be fair, it's very clearly fronted on the Sign Up form, which has a prominent button in the top right corner. A dedicated Pricing page/section would be nice simply because people often look for it, but it's not like they're trying to be sneaky or use dark patterns.

Yeah, this is just a usability issue for sure. Unfortunately for me, I didn't want to click "sign up" until after I could locate the pricing, leading me into a catch-22 situation.

Re: Blot turns a folder into a website

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Post by 8n4vidtmkvmk »

lpointal wrote: post #28
manx wrote: post #24

Love the simplicity! Looks like this shouldn't need a server, but instead could just be a static site generator. Am I missing something?

How do you want to serve pages without an http[s] server ?

I'm guessing they mean non-static server. I.e. just nginx without node or php or ruby or python should suffice to serve the static files.
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