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Not only is it a pixel-for-pixel duplication of the design, but now they're copying my front-end code, too.

by dcurtis 14y ago

prezjordan 14y ago
Code meaning front-end CSS+JS? Just out of curiosity, is it possible to protect that? Cease & desist? Great job with Svbtle, Dustin. Sorry to see a dupe like this, on WordPress nevertheless!
makmanalp 14y ago
People copying things they like on the internet? Never! Seriously, what did you expect? You created something beautiful. You formed a visual brand that associated itself to good writing. You made it exclusive. People wanted in. They copied it. You can see examples of this from nature (animals imitating visual properties of other animals to make themselves more scary etc) to modern design strategy (using similar colors / fonts to create a subconscious mental association with something).
- tptacek 14y ago
  Yes, this is human nature. But... now what? It's still irritating and disrespectful of the reader, the people actually involved with Svbtle, and even of the author's own content, which is obviously not important enough to be posted without a totally unrelated provocation. If you look carefully at Svbtle or almost any other modern blog, it is not hard to reverse engineer the rules that make these things look good: it's simply font size, line width, leading, and minimal ornamentation. Just make a new blog template that follows the same rules. Leave the "Kudos" thing out while you're at it. This isn't about sticking up for Dustin Curtis' exclusive rights to minimal, readable blog templates. As approximately every detractor of Svbtle has pointed out approximately always, Svbtle isn't the first site to use minimalist black-on-white breathable sans with a faintly ruled sidebar. This is about sites going out of their way to pretend an affiliation that they don't have. IBM's blog template is horrible. It would be equally annoying and disrespectful to clone it and change the "IBM" to "IBN".
astrojams 14y ago
Your guy is posting the front end code no?: http://blog.alexmaccaw.com/svbtle-image-uploading http://blog.alexmaccaw.com/svbtle-image-uploading

Not only is it a pixel-for-pixel duplication of the design, but now they're copying my front-end code, too.

by dcurtis 14y ago

Not only is it a pixel-for-pixel duplication of the design, but now they're copying my front-end code, too.

Code meaning front-end CSS+JS? Just out of curiosity, is it possible to protect that? Cease & desist? Great job with Svbtle, Dustin. Sorry to see a dupe like this, on WordPress nevertheless!

makmanalp 14y ago

People copying things they like on the internet? Never! Seriously, what did you expect? You created something beautiful. You formed a visual brand that associated itself to good writing. You made it exclusive. People wanted in. They copied it. You can see examples of this from nature (animals imitating visual properties of other animals to make themselves more scary etc) to modern design strategy (using similar colors / fonts to create a subconscious mental association with something).

tptacek 14y ago
Yes, this is human nature. But... now what? It's still irritating and disrespectful of the reader, the people actually involved with Svbtle, and even of the author's own content, which is obviously not important enough to be posted without a totally unrelated provocation. If you look carefully at Svbtle or almost any other modern blog, it is not hard to reverse engineer the rules that make these things look good: it's simply font size, line width, leading, and minimal ornamentation. Just make a new blog template that follows the same rules. Leave the "Kudos" thing out while you're at it. This isn't about sticking up for Dustin Curtis' exclusive rights to minimal, readable blog templates. As approximately every detractor of Svbtle has pointed out approximately always, Svbtle isn't the first site to use minimalist black-on-white breathable sans with a faintly ruled sidebar. This is about sites going out of their way to pretend an affiliation that they don't have. IBM's blog template is horrible. It would be equally annoying and disrespectful to clone it and change the "IBM" to "IBN".

astrojams 14y ago

Your guy is posting the front end code no?: http://blog.alexmaccaw.com/svbtle-image-uploading http://blog.alexmaccaw.com/svbtle-image-uploading