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Personally I write to myself on telegram, then take it from there once I'm on a computer. Doing detail editing on a phone is painful anyway.

webdevlion 6y ago
This makes me think, a Telegram-bot-as-a-CMS would work great for micro blogging.
- anorakoverflow 6y ago
  Something similar was posted on HN before [1], seems to be offline though. There’s an archived copy here: [2] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17617675 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17617675 [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20180726143328/https://telepost.io/ https://web.archive.org/web/20180726143328/https://telepost....
  - webdevlion 6y ago
    Telepost (which I just found out about from you) would be too expensive an option for a microblogging usecase, in my opinion. Nevertheless, it is proof that something like that could work, although it would require large infrastructure cost today. Thanks for the links!
- marban 6y ago
  I was also thinking of SMS to blog via Twilio — Used to do this in the late 90s from a Nokia Communicator
  - john-doe 6y ago
    Here's a nice SMS to blog how-to/setup: https://writxt.fun https://writxt.fun
    - webdevlion 6y ago
      Great find, thanks for this!
- jsrjenkins 6y ago
  There is something already in place with the 'telegra.ph' site, which is connected with Telegram I believe: https://telegra.ph https://telegra.ph https://telegra.ph/api https://telegra.ph/api
  - webdevlion 6y ago
    Awesome! So 'telegra.ph' allows anyone to post a richly-formatted HTTPS site right from Telegram. Neat! It should be fairly simple from here, to display contents of said HTTPS site on their own blog or website, so that they can write and edit their site directly from Telegram. This is exactly what I imagined when I thought of Telegram-as-a-CMS. Thanks!
- rakoo 6y ago
  What is old is new again. This exact idea has floated for pretty much all messaging protocols that have had some kind of programmabilty already. We can even imagine an email-based microblogging hack. Edit your boop (that's the new tweet) in your favorite MUA: the subject is the short text, the body is the long text. You can even put images and attachements in there. Send yourself this message, with a well-known prefix: it ends up in a specific IMAP folder. Have your third-party server that pulls messages from this folder and displays them in a "nice" view, so that anyone can browse and subscribe. To reply to boops, just reply to it in your MUA along with a copy for yourself and it will be present in your "Timeline" and in theirs. To address someone, send them a copy. In a perfect world you could anonymously authenticate to anyone's IMAP server and read that "boops" folder, and even subscribe to it if you want. But I don't think any existing provider will ever implement something like that. Email and RSS have all the fundamental building blocks for so many usecases already, but we keep reinventing the wheel again and again. The abstractions work. Imagine every company had to reinvent the whole TCP/IP stack every single time.
  - webdevlion 6y ago
    Great write-up. You're absolutely right, without having the protocols required to achieve this already in place, much of the web wouldn't exist today. I think right now, we will all have to wait for the system that ends all present microblogging platforms. And with what we are seeing right now, this solution must be decentralised, censorship-free, and non-selective with who can participate, for the billions of internet users to even consider switching away from FB, Twitter, and the like.
  - prionassembly 6y ago
    Tumblr used to have this.
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marban 6y ago
I do this with email for to-dos ;)

webdevlion 6y ago

This makes me think, a Telegram-bot-as-a-CMS would work great for micro blogging.

anorakoverflow 6y ago
Something similar was posted on HN before [1], seems to be offline though. There’s an archived copy here: [2] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17617675 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17617675 [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20180726143328/https://telepost.io/ https://web.archive.org/web/20180726143328/https://telepost....
- webdevlion 6y ago
  Telepost (which I just found out about from you) would be too expensive an option for a microblogging usecase, in my opinion. Nevertheless, it is proof that something like that could work, although it would require large infrastructure cost today. Thanks for the links!
marban 6y ago
I was also thinking of SMS to blog via Twilio — Used to do this in the late 90s from a Nokia Communicator
- john-doe 6y ago
  Here's a nice SMS to blog how-to/setup: https://writxt.fun https://writxt.fun
  - webdevlion 6y ago
    Great find, thanks for this!
jsrjenkins 6y ago
There is something already in place with the 'telegra.ph' site, which is connected with Telegram I believe: https://telegra.ph https://telegra.ph https://telegra.ph/api https://telegra.ph/api
- webdevlion 6y ago
  Awesome! So 'telegra.ph' allows anyone to post a richly-formatted HTTPS site right from Telegram. Neat! It should be fairly simple from here, to display contents of said HTTPS site on their own blog or website, so that they can write and edit their site directly from Telegram. This is exactly what I imagined when I thought of Telegram-as-a-CMS. Thanks!
rakoo 6y ago
What is old is new again. This exact idea has floated for pretty much all messaging protocols that have had some kind of programmabilty already. We can even imagine an email-based microblogging hack. Edit your boop (that's the new tweet) in your favorite MUA: the subject is the short text, the body is the long text. You can even put images and attachements in there. Send yourself this message, with a well-known prefix: it ends up in a specific IMAP folder. Have your third-party server that pulls messages from this folder and displays them in a "nice" view, so that anyone can browse and subscribe. To reply to boops, just reply to it in your MUA along with a copy for yourself and it will be present in your "Timeline" and in theirs. To address someone, send them a copy. In a perfect world you could anonymously authenticate to anyone's IMAP server and read that "boops" folder, and even subscribe to it if you want. But I don't think any existing provider will ever implement something like that. Email and RSS have all the fundamental building blocks for so many usecases already, but we keep reinventing the wheel again and again. The abstractions work. Imagine every company had to reinvent the whole TCP/IP stack every single time.
- webdevlion 6y ago
  Great write-up. You're absolutely right, without having the protocols required to achieve this already in place, much of the web wouldn't exist today. I think right now, we will all have to wait for the system that ends all present microblogging platforms. And with what we are seeing right now, this solution must be decentralised, censorship-free, and non-selective with who can participate, for the billions of internet users to even consider switching away from FB, Twitter, and the like.
- prionassembly 6y ago
  Tumblr used to have this.

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marban 6y ago

I do this with email for to-dos ;)