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Impressively fast (honestly, that's stellar work), slightly buggy in the editor (focus is sometimes hard to determine, triple-click doesn't always select a para
by Groxx 5y ago
Impressively fast (honestly, that's stellar work), slightly buggy in the editor (focus is sometimes hard to determine, triple-click doesn't always select a paragraph, etc) but I assume that'll get cleared up eventually, and it's pretty good looking across the board.
I might actually use this. Simple and effective and not full of crap. It could use a little bit more documentation (inter-post linking how? hardcoding might be fine, but it'd be nice if that link-popup searched your post titles or something) and probably a small bit of extra flexibility... but finding the balancing point between "feature-full" and "simple" is quite tough, as is keeping it fast. I'm pleasantly surprised with it as-is.
Any chance of custom domain support? I assume that would be a paid feature (it always is, I think that's reasonable), but it is nice to have that option. Also RSS.
- colinarms 5y agoJust circling back here - I launched custom domain support today (for a one-time fee of $50, you can unlock custom domains permanently for your blog).
- colinarms 5y agoThank you - appreciate all the feedback! I invested quite a bit into speed, and thankfully Next.js has a lot of great built-in support to make things fast - incremental static regeneration, link prefetching, image optimization, etc. For the editor bugs - thanks for highlighting, I filed a bug and definitely hoping to tackle this eventually. Agreed on the documentation as well - it's on my radar to improve. For custom domain support and RSS - both features on the roadmap! Likely RSS first, as that's quite a bit easier to implement, and custom domain support shortly after that. (Custom domain support is probably the #1 feature request at the moment).
- prox 5y agoI’ve been thinking about blogging for a while, and your offering is the first that makes me want to go ahead. Custom domain would be nice!
- bryans 5y agoI'd caution against asserting 200ms page loads and 99 Lighthouse scores -- you don't actually appear to be coming close to either of those metrics.
- Zababa 5y agoSeconding this. Lighthouse on the vs-substack page gives a 82 on performance. That's a big difference, and is also under the 85 reported for Substack.
- mholt 5y agoPlease use Caddy for custom domains (a web server I wrote that excels at this): https://caddy.community/t/serving-tens-of-thousands-of-domains-over-https-with-caddy/11179/1 https://caddy.community/t/serving-tens-of-thousands-of-domai...
- Groxx 5y agoI honestly do like 90% of my internet reading through RSS, so yeah, I think that's the more important one anyway :)
- colinarms 5y agoI just implemented basic RSS functionality. There's now an "RSS" link at the bottom of all blog posts and pages. Thanks again for the feedback!
- urlwolf 5y agoLove this. Inter-post linking is a must, I use zim wiki to think and cannot live without wikifying everything :)