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Doesn't every open source blog software allow you to self-host? How is your solution superior to the battle-tested Wordpress or dozens of other options?

2pEXgD0fZ5cF 6y ago
From the webpage: Haven is about sharing privately with friends and family. There is no option to make your blog public to the world. You get to create an account for anyone you want to have access. When they connect to your site, they use https encryption between their web browser and your server. That means nobody can intercept and read your posts. Since you create accounts for people, there is no place for spammers or internet bots try creating accounts. If you want a public blog to build a base of followers, or promote a product, or try to profit from your blog—this isn't the right service for you. I suggest you use Wordpress instead.
- eternalny1 6y ago
  I fail to see how this is different than a Wordpress private blog. > Private. Select this option to make your site private. If you want specific people to be able to view it (and add comments, if you’ve enabled them), you’ll need to invite them to be a viewer.
  - qznc 6y ago
    I have no experience with that private mode. The creator says, he tried WordPress though: > I tried using WordPress but it took too many custom plugins and configurations and I still got bombarded by spam signup requests.
    - Natfan 6y ago
      Based on what eternalny1 said, private mode doesn't require "many custom plugins and configurations" as it's baked right into the product. One could reduce that amount of spam signup requests that one gets by simplying adding a captca such as recaptcha[0] or hcaptcha[1] [0]: https://www.google.com/recaptcha https://www.google.com/recaptcha [1]: https://www.hcaptcha.com https://www.hcaptcha.com
      - hartleybrody 6y ago
        What a perfectly obtuse, technical solution. Is grandma going to solve a captcha in order to sign up on a wordpress blog to view photos of her grandchildren? Dropbox is "just" a private s3 bucket with s3cmd on a cronjob -- or a million other technical solutions -- but they're a successful business because they nailed the user experience for average joes. The point of OP's product is that you don't have to cobble together a bunch of hacks to replicate the desired user experience, it's supported out of the box.
        dataexporter 6y ago
        Wordpress lets admins create accounts and set passwords for the users as well. One can quite easily disable public signups (to prevent spam) and manually create an account for one's grandma. For public signups it is a perfectly valid solution to use captcha!
- x86_64Ubuntu 6y ago
  So how do people connect? The good thing about your social media networks such as FB, LinkedIn, IG is that I can meet someone in real life, and then connect digitally. Or I can connect to the people who are important to the people who are important to me (friending my cousin's fiance). Does this provide a similar solution?
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2pEXgD0fZ5cF 6y ago

From the webpage: Haven is about sharing privately with friends and family. There is no option to make your blog public to the world. You get to create an account for anyone you want to have access. When they connect to your site, they use https encryption between their web browser and your server. That means nobody can intercept and read your posts. Since you create accounts for people, there is no place for spammers or internet bots try creating accounts. If you want a public blog to build a base of followers, or promote a product, or try to profit from your blog—this isn't the right service for you. I suggest you use Wordpress instead.

eternalny1 6y ago
I fail to see how this is different than a Wordpress private blog. > Private. Select this option to make your site private. If you want specific people to be able to view it (and add comments, if you’ve enabled them), you’ll need to invite them to be a viewer.
- qznc 6y ago
  I have no experience with that private mode. The creator says, he tried WordPress though: > I tried using WordPress but it took too many custom plugins and configurations and I still got bombarded by spam signup requests.
  - Natfan 6y ago
    Based on what eternalny1 said, private mode doesn't require "many custom plugins and configurations" as it's baked right into the product. One could reduce that amount of spam signup requests that one gets by simplying adding a captca such as recaptcha[0] or hcaptcha[1] [0]: https://www.google.com/recaptcha https://www.google.com/recaptcha [1]: https://www.hcaptcha.com https://www.hcaptcha.com
    - hartleybrody 6y ago
      What a perfectly obtuse, technical solution. Is grandma going to solve a captcha in order to sign up on a wordpress blog to view photos of her grandchildren? Dropbox is "just" a private s3 bucket with s3cmd on a cronjob -- or a million other technical solutions -- but they're a successful business because they nailed the user experience for average joes. The point of OP's product is that you don't have to cobble together a bunch of hacks to replicate the desired user experience, it's supported out of the box.
      - dataexporter 6y ago
        Wordpress lets admins create accounts and set passwords for the users as well. One can quite easily disable public signups (to prevent spam) and manually create an account for one's grandma. For public signups it is a perfectly valid solution to use captcha!
x86_64Ubuntu 6y ago
So how do people connect? The good thing about your social media networks such as FB, LinkedIn, IG is that I can meet someone in real life, and then connect digitally. Or I can connect to the people who are important to the people who are important to me (friending my cousin's fiance). Does this provide a similar solution?

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