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While I like both Svbtle and Medium, I'd still prefer to have the blog fully controlled by myself. I'm thinking about git(github pages)+jekyll because I don't w

by jakub_g 11y ago

While I like both Svbtle and Medium, I'd still prefer to have the blog fully controlled by myself. I'm thinking about git(github pages)+jekyll because I don't want to pay for a server. Having said that, Svbtle's kudos are a nice thing. Is there any simple, trusted upvote-as-a-service thing out there so that I can embed it in my blog and don't have to maintain a server+DB myself? Everyone and their dog offers free advanced analytics, but I want a simple upvote button API :) Edit: nope, FB is not what I want.

matt4077 11y ago
Well, there's this startup called http://thefacebook.com http://thefacebook.com. Not sure if it'll go anywhere, though.
benaiah 11y ago
Sadly, Facebook's Likes are probably the only version of this that has enough of a network to meaningfully make comparisons. It's essentially an upvote-AAS.
drinchev 11y ago
Since you are using "git" & "Jekyll" I would say you are a technical person, so you should just do it. A couple of days scripting, designing and configuring I managed to have a decent blog [1], without paying a dollar. I'm using a combination of metalsmith, Amazon s3 & gulp. 1: http://www.drinchev.com/blog http://www.drinchev.com/blog
- Fogest 11y ago
  Is your sidebar suppose to have a vertical and horizontal scroll bar on it?
sbierwagen 11y ago
While I like both Svbtle and Medium, I'd still prefer to have the blog fully controlled by myself. I'm thinking about git(github pages)+jekyll because I don't want to pay for a server. If you're not paying for a server, you don't "control it" in any meaningful way.
pg_bot 11y ago
Someone needs to make a better static site generator, with an interface that a content team can use.
lmm 11y ago
> I'd still prefer to have the blog fully controlled by myself. I'm thinking about git(github pages)+jekyll because I don't want to pay for a server. And that's the fundamental contradiction. If you're not paying for it, who is? He who pays the piper and all that. You can maybe set up an organization intended to serve your goals forever (charitable foundations are the current tactic), but society deliberately opposes perpetuities, and for good reason. > Everyone and their dog offers free advanced analytics, but I want a simple upvote button API :) Edit: nope, FB is not what I want. If you want a trustable service then that service needs a way of determining identity (to avoid vote spamming) which is a very big task. Only the large social networks (facebook/google/twitter/etc.) really have the level of resources needed to handle that; anyone else pretty much has to delegate to them.

by jakub_g 11y ago

matt4077 11y ago

Well, there's this startup called http://thefacebook.com http://thefacebook.com. Not sure if it'll go anywhere, though.

benaiah 11y ago

Sadly, Facebook's Likes are probably the only version of this that has enough of a network to meaningfully make comparisons. It's essentially an upvote-AAS.

drinchev 11y ago

Since you are using "git" & "Jekyll" I would say you are a technical person, so you should just do it. A couple of days scripting, designing and configuring I managed to have a decent blog [1], without paying a dollar. I'm using a combination of metalsmith, Amazon s3 & gulp. 1: http://www.drinchev.com/blog http://www.drinchev.com/blog

Fogest 11y ago
Is your sidebar suppose to have a vertical and horizontal scroll bar on it?

sbierwagen 11y ago

pg_bot 11y ago

Someone needs to make a better static site generator, with an interface that a content team can use.

lmm 11y ago

> I'd still prefer to have the blog fully controlled by myself. I'm thinking about git(github pages)+jekyll because I don't want to pay for a server. And that's the fundamental contradiction. If you're not paying for it, who is? He who pays the piper and all that. You can maybe set up an organization intended to serve your goals forever (charitable foundations are the current tactic), but society deliberately opposes perpetuities, and for good reason. > Everyone and their dog offers free advanced analytics, but I want a simple upvote button API :) Edit: nope, FB is not what I want. If you want a trustable service then that service needs a way of determining identity (to avoid vote spamming) which is a very big task. Only the large social networks (facebook/google/twitter/etc.) really have the level of resources needed to handle that; anyone else pretty much has to delegate to them.