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1. There is no demo site with any reasonable content. hq.git.ht is blank, and has an invalid RSS feed. The videos show vlad.git.ht, which does seem to have some

1. There is no demo site with any reasonable content. hq.git.ht is blank, and has an invalid RSS feed. The videos show vlad.git.ht, which does seem to have some test post on /latest, but… 2. The (strangely written IMO) website copy claims there are comments, but I can’t see them on https://vlad.git.ht/2bbf002723aeec77713a8692db2198d3 https://vlad.git.ht/2bbf002723aeec77713a8692db2198d3 . Do I need to click through onto GitHub somehow? 3. How do I publish multiple posts? How can I get an index of posts (in a web browser, not in a RSS reader)? I can see multiple posts in the RSS feed https://vlad.git.ht/feed/rss https://vlad.git.ht/feed/rss , but those are not discoverable by humans. The single post page has no link (<link> nor <a>) to the RSS feed. 4. The RSS feeds seem to contain raw HTML from the Gist embedding service, including an advertisement for GitHub and some SVG embedded in EVERY post. 4. Going to https://vlad.git.ht/ https://vlad.git.ht/ gets you a very confusing “Are you vlad? | Then you know what to do | Login →” page. Why is this page targeted at vlad but not vlad’s readers? What should vlad’s readers do when they remove the commit hash from the URL and get to the main page? 5. Why would I pay $4/month for this if I can do it for free with any static site generator and GitHub Pages, and it would have much better quality than this?

prepend 3y ago
> Why would I pay $4/month This was my biggest question. And changed my mind from “kind of neat hack” to “wtf, is the point to just trick people into doing things an expensive way.” I can’t help but be happy that we didn’t have the 4 Hour Workweek way back when or wget’s author would be trying to charge $7.22/month or $62/year for the amazing capability to scrape web sites. Or every gnu util author would be trying to get $4/month (ie, we’d never have gnu utils).

prepend 3y ago

> Why would I pay $4/month This was my biggest question. And changed my mind from “kind of neat hack” to “wtf, is the point to just trick people into doing things an expensive way.” I can’t help but be happy that we didn’t have the 4 Hour Workweek way back when or wget’s author would be trying to charge $7.22/month or $62/year for the amazing capability to scrape web sites. Or every gnu util author would be trying to get $4/month (ie, we’d never have gnu utils).