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Re: Show HN: Multiverse.plus – what if blogging was more collage-like and colorful?

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Post by kickscondor »

So we are glitchyowl and kickscondor - this is a collaboration between us - an attempt to make 'blogging' more expressive and visual, possibly to break a piece off and reboot it, now that it's fallen out of fashion.

The Web seems to have converged on a color called 'gwalb' - gray with a little blue. We've gone from home pages - which users could dump endless animated gifs and marquees on to - to giving everyone a roughly 680x680 square to put a picture or some unstyled, unlinked text into. We think being on the Web can still be expressive and casual.

Multiverse is a place for creating visual essays and collages - closer to comics or slideshows than to a 'blog' on Medium or Substack or Wordpress - which are very close to essays. You can also design colorful frames for your posts, to increase the sense of identity, beyond a name and an avatar.

We're not trying to go head-to-head with social media here - just offering a new tool that breaks ranks from the other software out there. We know many of you care about the Web - it has a very fun and freewheeling side to it that we want to help foster, as well as standards like RSS and Webmentions that still make sense! And it's still a great place to meet people and make memories. We've spent the past six months on this. We will probably offer a paid plan if it becomes interesting to people. Are we on the right track here?

- glitchyowl & kicks

Re: Show HN: Multiverse.plus – what if blogging was more collage-like and colorful?

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Post by glitchyowl »

glitchyowl here, one of the creator of multiverse, thanks for peeking in

we want to make blogging on the web a little more casual expressive than it's been. which is why we've went with a free-form canvas with lots of style customisation options ~*

here's my mic check - https://multiverse.plus/glitchyowl/haiyo-multiverse

Re: Show HN: Multiverse.plus – what if blogging was more collage-like and colorful?

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Post by 0des »

kickscondor wrote: post #2

So we are glitchyowl and kickscondor - this is a collaboration between us - an attempt to make 'blogging' more expressive and visual, possibly to break a piece off and reboot it, now that it's fallen out of fashion. The Web seems to have converged on a color called 'gwalb' - gray with a little blue. We've gone from home pages - which users could dump endless animated gifs and marquees on to - to giving everyone a rou…

Hey there! First off, thanks for the submission. It's a refreshing take on the homepages we knew and loved. I'm curious what you plan to have in the paid tier. Can you detail some of your ideas with regard to that? Also, is there an engineering blog that goes into some of the design decisions and mechanics behind the scenes? Very much looking forward to what you two come up with.

Take care, wishing you the best!

Re: Show HN: Multiverse.plus – what if blogging was more collage-like and colorful?

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Post by kickscondor »

DiggyJohnson wrote: post #4

Very cool - that said, it appears that I'm not receiving (is it being sent?) the sign-up email for new accounts. Exciting project. Tasteful design.

Trying signing up on the home page. If it says your email already has an account, try here: https://multiverse.plus/signin

You can also email us at hello@multiverse.plus and we'll look into it. Might be a specific browser issue.

Re: Show HN: Multiverse.plus – what if blogging was more collage-like and colorful?

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Post by queuebert »

onion2k wrote: post #3

I don't know if I'll be going back but it's an interesting idea. It reminds me of the geocities/angelfire/myspace/a bunch of other content builders of the early 2000s era of web stuff. https://multiverse.plus/onion2k/hello-hn

Big geocities energy with seizure-inducing gifs. I feel like a kid with a modem again.
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