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Looks 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 e
by ourcat 8y ago
Looks 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.)
- icebraining 8y agoI guess we have different opinions on what "self-hosted" means.
- ourcat 8y agoNaturally, many of us here in HN might be able to rent and administer our 'own' dedicated servers and run whatever we want on them. And some just can't (or choose not to). But to the main point: "self-hosted" means that you are responsible for the content - and any legal or social implications therein. Not the "social media blogging platform du jour". It's your blog. You are the 'editor'/'publisher'. The host itself has certain protections against whatever you might want to host. But it's your responsibility to act upon complaints. And in today's increasingly litigious society, that's going to be massive drain. Emotionally, as well as financially. And that will always destroy any productivity the product itself should be getting. I just think that "building (and selling!) tools" for users, to do what they want with, in 'space' they 'can call their own' is a better proposition than "building networks and apps to make it easy to pour everyone's content into silos. And transfer some degree of copyright in order to do so. And have to answer to all the complaints of abuse etc. etc. " :)
- fermienrico 8y agoSelf-hosting doesn't sell. You and I can probably self-host but majority of the bloggers can't. The fact that Medium exists (and Blogger, Tumblr, etc.) is a testament to the fact that most (99% of the users) don't want to or know how to self-host a blog. They just need a place to write.
- ourcat 8y agoOh, I completely agree that market exists. Along with all the business models and data collection value that goes along with them, in order to make them sustainable. But look where that's got us ;) The tools/software just need to be very simple and easy (/foolproof, if such an app exists). Also: 'webrings' need to be a thing again ;)
- ourcat 8y agobtw: I'm referring more to the issues of "oh my [insert deity]! Someone who has a blog on a system you run has offended|stolen from|attacked|etc. me.." kind of complaints. 'Free' users are the worst users in that respect. Because they have none.
- el_dev_hell 8y ago> 'Free' users are the worst users in that respect. In my experience, free users are the worst. Full stop.