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Ask HN: Is Svbtle Dead?
- skibz 8y agoIt's definitely not dead. My best guess is that it simply lost the popularity contest to Medium. Svbtle's influence cannot be understated, however, in my opinion. I've seen a number of independent bloggers using their own "kudos circle" (inspired by the Svbtle feature)
- contravariant 8y ago>cannot be understated I think you may have one negation too many there.
- skibz 8y agoHahaha, no kidding! :D Overstated is what I meant to say.
- anatolinicolae 8y agohttps://svbtle.com/promise https://svbtle.com/promise
- Finiz1983 8y agoI would say Svbtle had gone experimenting. At some point I decided I wanted to be a part of something livelier and more inclusive and announced in a review of Book Worm Lab http://ratedbystudents.com/services/bookwormlab http://ratedbystudents.com/services/bookwormlab Svbtle dead too. But now I'm using it again:)
- jannes 8y agoI didn't even realise that they had launched to the public. In my mind they were an invitation-only blogging service.
- dcurtis 8y agoNope. Working on it right now, in fact.
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- Rjevski 8y agoI see why you think it might be dead, given that it stays quiet in the background and gets out of your way (as opposed to Medium for example), but that's the whole point of Svbtle. Svbtle puts the content first - the content is the end game, where as Medium puts itself first; the Medium brand itself is put first; the content is just an afterthought.
- tedmiston 8y agoI think OP was more pointing out that, at least from the outside, the product and its features appear unchanged from several years ago. I tried Svbtle myself, and while I like the product aesthetically and conceptually, customization features that I really wanted like adding custom tracker tags just weren't there yet. I chose to keep using Ghost for now.