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Express application that converts files to HTML with pandoc and serves the results, with a dashboard. The TODO file in the repo[1] is fascinating. 1: https://github.com/davidmerfield/Blot/blob/39d9583395c190534...
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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.
This makes me think of the early/mid-2000s & https://blosxom.sourceforge.net . Blosxom had this delightful concept of file extensions as "flavours." For example, you could have a ".rss" flavour that would present that hierarchy of your site as an RSS feed if you added ".rss" to the URL. Brilliant!
This used to be fairly common. Reddit is another site. A company I worked at.aroind the same time also had .xml, .rss, .atom. .xml would serve up the raw xml our middleware generated, which was normally "rendered" via xsl (what can I say to redeem myself for that?) server side. It was great for both debugging (you could browse the site in "xml mode") and to provide an API. I still like the url approach - being able t…
Why? XSL is awesome even if a little arcane now.
Time makes fools of us all.
I’m not versed in web development, but Blot’s developer (David) seems to have a great goal in mind & similar enough priorities to what I wanted that it was a great fit. I finally got to set up the photography site I’d been planning, too.
It’s http://ristrettoshots.com/ if anyone was curious what one take on a Blot photo site would look like.
> Files and folders whose name starts with an underscore do not become posts or pages. You can link to or embed them in posts. So you cannot link to "posts"? Only to files whose names starts with underscore?
> Files and folders whose name starts with an underscore do not become posts or pages. You can link to or embed them in posts. So you cannot link to "posts"? Only to files whose names starts with underscore?
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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.
Did you think it would sign you up without confirmation or something? It seems strange to me to not want to hit sign up to see how much it would cost.
I announced Blot on Hacker News almost 10 years ago. Thank you all for helping to get it started. It was a nice surprise to see it posted again here today. The goal of Blot is to bring the benefits of the static site generator to people who haven't heard of static site generators
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