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Show HN: Notepin – Extremely simple blogging platform
- FreeKill 8y agoWould be nice to see an example of an actual blog using the platform, on that page, without having to sign up first.
- okozzie 8y agoAgreed, thanks for the input!
- spdebbarma 8y agoAlso mention more about the themes and the level of customization I can do on my blog. That would be super helpful. Keep up the good work, you awesome creator.
- okozzie 8y agoThank you so much!
- zepearl 8y agoI see a huge empty area at the top (on all pages, tested on Firefox and Chrome on Linux, e.g. on https://osman.notepin.co https://osman.notepin.co and https://notepin.co/blog https://notepin.co/blog )
- equalunique 8y agoWow. It looks like Urbit.
- muthdra 8y ago.content{ position: absolute; top: 42%; left: 50%; transform: translateX(-68%); padding-bottom: 40px; } This is all kinds of wrong.
- jay_kyburz 8y agoHey Okozzie, have a look at the site full screen at 1440p.
- hcal 8y agoI agree. That was my first reaction and I suspect most visitors will be in the same boat. I like the simple design of the landing page and in the context of a hackernews visitor, I might click through to see more of the project. I almost certainly wouldn't signup in the context of being a potential customer.
- miki123211 8y agoI'm thinking about creating something like that but open source. Would be interesting.
- SamWhited 8y agoLook into Writefreely (or write.as for a hosted instance). You might end up liking it or wanting to contribute: https://github.com/writeas/writefreely https://github.com/writeas/writefreely
- miki123211 8y agoThis definitely looks interesting. I like their viewpoint on privacy (and the fact that it's written in Golang)
- SamWhited 8y agoPedantic aside: The language is called "Go", please don't propagate "golang" :)
- todipa 8y agoSuper interested. Will it be similar to Medium?
- SamWhited 8y agoIf by "similar to Medium" you mean "shows your users annoying popups if they're not logged in and doesn't actually do RSS so you can't get all your feeds in one place", then I certainly hope not :)
- anastalaz 8y agoYou can actually get the RSS feed for a publication when you add /feed/ in front of the publication's name, for example https://medium.com/feed/the-new-york-times https://medium.com/feed/the-new-york-times
- SamWhited 8y agoIt's not advertised the correct way, so feed readers can't find it, which makes it effectively a non-starter for most people I'd think. They're doing the Google thing where they implement the spec just enough to claim they implement it, but not enough for anyone to use it so that they can claim it wasn't their fault and no one used it. That's still good to know for the future though, thanks.
- keb_ 8y agoLooks nice so far. I'm a fan of these new minimal blogging alternatives to Medium. Also, check out WriteFreely for an open-sourced blogging platform that is federated with ActivityPub, that you can also deploy yourself. Write.as is the main instance. https://writefreely.org/ https://writefreely.org/ https://write.as/about https://write.as/about
- SamWhited 8y agoThe "Get Started" button doesn't appear to do anything.
- scegit 8y agoMaybe their intent was to show the sidebar on the right when it's clicked.
- greensoup 8y agoIts not logical, when making a new post, to get all the content of all the previous posts as starting point.
- chrischen 8y agoOn mobile the learn more menu seems to be cut off at the bottom. On iphone at least.
- asien 8y agoThis is really optimized for Mobile. Tried on my 25inch screen , I thought the call to action was broken it just that the slider was already open it seems like. Love the idea and the concept, a bit more detail in UI would be nice. Just having an app that render fast unlike Medium is already a huge plus in my opinion.
- usaphp 8y agoWhat if someone runs a script that registers all the names with random passwords? Don’t you need an email validation or something to prevent that?
- qwerty456127 8y agoHN doesn't require e-mail verification and seems fine.
- coolreader18 8y agoOne second - going to try something out. /s
- ourcat 8y agoLooks nice. But my advice is: don't getting in to the business of hosting other people's stuff. It's just not worth it these days, unless they're paying. But even then, it has potential to be a huge can of legal worms these days. So much so that it'll suck the life out of you and the project, along with whatever you make on 'upgrades'. IMHO: Self-hosting (and installing your software) should be the way (back) to go. Very nice UI though. :)
- qwerty456127 8y agoBut who will use a self-hosted blogging system given the problem you've mentioned (and the threat of blackhat hackers attacks)?
- ourcat 8y agoThe are millions of Wordpress blogs/sites out there doing fine? What I also mean is that any complaints go to the host/owner of the self-hosted system. Not to the people writing and supporting the software they run.
- icebraining 8y agoThe are millions of Wordpress blogs/sites out there doing fine? Many, if not most, are not actually self-hosted.
- Jaruzel 8y agoSimply not true. The plethora low-cost one-click-install WordPress hosting providers out there are testament to this. Over the weekend I was asked to set up a remote-hosted WordPress site for a friend, and all the major web-hosters out there claim to hosting 100s of thousands of WordPress blogs. (I ended up choosing 1&1.co.uk as they are UK based and seemed to offer good options for a good price... however the setup was not as easy as it could have been.)
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- AndrewKemendo 8y agoI just moved to write.as from Medium and it's great. Primarily because it's $1 a month hosted, I can use my own domain and there is literally zero clutter in either the drafting page or the display page. No customization aside from fonts and some light markup makes it really clean. Example: https://write.as/andrewkemendo/relative-complexity-and-importance-of-systems-within-evolved-organizations https://write.as/andrewkemendo/relative-complexity-and-impor...
- nudpiedo 8y agowhy to pay for a platform if everyone could use github static pages and just publish by git commit?
- nvr219 8y agobecause on github everyone sees when I make stupid commits to fix my stupid typos
- isacikgoz 8y agopro tip: squash (rebase) your commits then force push to remove "fix typo" history
- profalseidol 8y agopro tip: be careful in using force push. In the past there's a version of git where it defaults to force all your local branches into the remote copy. When I did use force push, it pushed everything including my outdated local copy of PROD. Fortunately we were able to fix this before somebody else ran a git pull. the new versions I believe are configured safer now afaik.
- pferde 8y agoAn even "proer" tip: rebase your commits into something coherent BEFORE pushing, and you can drop the "force".
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- qwerty456127 8y agoDoes it let you create microbolog-like posts without titles? Does it support tags? Does it support MarkDown? Does it support ATOM/RSS? Does it let people comment and discuss the posts easily? Does it let you embed media (pictures, YouTube videos, SoudCloud tracks, formulae and diagrams etc)? Can I take a look at an example blog on this platform?
- nvr219 8y ago> Does it let you create microbolog-like posts without titles? yes > Does it support tags? yes > Does it support MarkDown? yes > Does it support ATOM/RSS? yes > Does it let people comment and discuss the posts easily? kinda > Does it let you embed media (pictures, YouTube videos, SoudCloud tracks, formulae and diagrams etc)? no > Can I take a look at an example blog on this platform? yes - stand by
- qwerty456127 8y agoPretty impressed with the first part (I didn't yet know a reasonably functional blogging CMS that doesn't require posts to have titles) but lack of media embedding feature effectively disqualifies the rest for me. Lack of way to embed pictures seems next to ridiculous nowadays, lack of way to embed YouTube videos feels a huge inconvenience (this is exactly what makes me unhappy with GitHub Pages), native support for SoudCloud tracks, formulae and diagrams is what I would love to have but can substitute with a workaround (by hosting audio tracks on YouTube and rendering formulae/diagrams to pictures).
- egypturnash 8y agoFWIW, Wordpress is happy to let you post something with a blank title field. I'm looking at my self-hosted WP installation and I've got a couple dozen that float to the top when I sort by title.
- qwerty456127 8y agoIMHO Wordpress is _unreasonably_ functional. It seems a Lovecraftian monster of complexity to me.
- abhinav_1941 8y agonice one!
- abtinf 8y agoThe design of the front page makes it look like an image failed to load.
- johnmarcus 8y agowith no judgements on this iteration, I wish I had a $1 for every "simple blogging platform" ever developed. I would be ghetto rich, at least.
- cyberferret 8y agoSeems nice, but I still really miss the simplicity of 'post to your blog via an email' that Posterous used to do before they shut it down. That methodology suited me best, because it allowed me to post to my (then) blog regularly just be sending an email to a certain address (and from a certain address). I could be in the field on my iPhone or something and take a couple of pictures and write up a quick post and send it to go live in seconds.
- kwhitefoot 8y agoI wish more things used email. It's really handy to be able to compose something in email and send it without having to think about whether or not I am online.
- z3t4 8y agoHow does private posts work ? Are they password protected ? Do I need to generate a user/pw for each person I want to show it to ?
- okozzie 8y agoHi, a private post means that it will not appear on your public blog and can only be viewed from your management panel. You can still share a private post and generate a unique link for it to be shown to others.