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Interesting. I've seen increasing number of posts on Github Pages[1], Octopress[2], Medium[3], and Svbtle[4]. It seems that (at least in the hacker community)

by jbackus 13y ago

Interesting. I've seen increasing number of posts on Github Pages[1], Octopress[2], Medium[3], and Svbtle[4]. It seems that (at least in the hacker community) there is an increasing shift to minimalist blogging stacks. I'm excited to see if the rest of the world follows. [1] http://pages.github.com/ http://pages.github.com/ [2] http://octopress.org/ http://octopress.org/ [3] https://medium.com/ https://medium.com/ [4] https://svbtle.com/ https://svbtle.com/

nati 13y ago
svbtle is very nice and clean
- w1ntermute 13y ago
  You can easily get the Svbtle theme in Wordpress by using wp-svbtle: http://wp-svbtle.themeskult.com/ http://wp-svbtle.themeskult.com/
  - username111 13y ago
    I don't like the Svbtle style but I don't think you should suggest using something that stole the design and is not condoned by the original author. It's so funny how outraged hacker news becomes when a startups design is stolen but when dcurtis made svbtle a private platform they were all to happy to have people steal the design.
    - eropple 13y ago
      I've never followed this brouhaha--was it stolen (i.e., was code lifted from svbtle) or is it a reimplementation? I mean, to me it looks pretentious and lame and I'd never use it, but it seems like it'd be legally actionable if there was actual copyright violations in the offing.
      - bigiain 13y ago
        From vague recollection - there was some pretty damning evidence when it launched that entire swathes of css were direct copies - not just functional equivalence, but identical class/id/selector names. (Note: this vague recollection might not have been about the particular WordPress theme in the parent comment, but I do recall looking at one of the early Svbtle WP clones and seeing this)
pavs 13y ago
Highly unlikely. Wordpress is the opposite of simplicity, its highly configurable and thats (one of the reasons) why its so widely used. HN or hacker community is a very small community and its hardly the microcosm of the internet.
- ishansharma 13y ago
  But Hacker Community is the one that guides others towards new technologies. 10 years from now, Octopress may be prime blogging platform or second best!
  - coldtea 13y ago
    >But Hacker Community is the one that guides others towards new technologies. 10 years from now, Octopress may be prime blogging platform or second best! Not really -- they just like to believe it works that way. What the more people chose is based on more pragmatic issues and market factors that "what the geeks use". And no, "we advice the rest of the family / friends what to buy" doesn't cut it either. We may do it, for OUR friends/family, but in total we are very few, and our friends/families aggregated are insignificant statistical noise to the general population. And nobody mimicks them either. The "hacker community" doesn't even influence the general programming community (which is like 1000 times bigger). For example, most people use Java or .NET and not Haskell or Smalltalk or LISP etc -- heck, in the ranks of the millions of the general programming community, not even that many use Python. And that's why even in programming circles Wordpress wins 2 or 3 orders of magnitude to all things like Octopress aggregated What does happen is that sometimes the Hacker community embraces a new technology first. But getting there first is not like "guiding others". In the same sense that a tiny minority of underground music fans might have liked some obscure band 5 years before it become mainstream. That doesn't mean that they are the factor the band "made it big". If that was it, then the dozens of other obscure bands they like would have "made it big" or close to big, too.
    - ownagefool 13y ago
      I'd say it was a mistake to be thinking that people who use Java or .Net aren't hackers. :)
minimaxir 13y ago
WordPress is what's being pushed for 100% control by personal bloggers and businesses. Unfortunately, there are no good alternatives, especially for those who aren't tech-savvy. (I still recommend Tumblr over WordPress if you aren't blogging professionally, though)
jacques_chester 13y ago
> there is an increasing shift to minimalist blogging stacks I regret that this is bubble talk. If you think non-software types are going to publish blog posts at a command line, I don't know what else to say.

by jbackus 13y ago

nati 13y ago

svbtle is very nice and clean

w1ntermute 13y ago
You can easily get the Svbtle theme in Wordpress by using wp-svbtle: http://wp-svbtle.themeskult.com/ http://wp-svbtle.themeskult.com/
- username111 13y ago
  I don't like the Svbtle style but I don't think you should suggest using something that stole the design and is not condoned by the original author. It's so funny how outraged hacker news becomes when a startups design is stolen but when dcurtis made svbtle a private platform they were all to happy to have people steal the design.
  - eropple 13y ago
    I've never followed this brouhaha--was it stolen (i.e., was code lifted from svbtle) or is it a reimplementation? I mean, to me it looks pretentious and lame and I'd never use it, but it seems like it'd be legally actionable if there was actual copyright violations in the offing.
    - bigiain 13y ago
      From vague recollection - there was some pretty damning evidence when it launched that entire swathes of css were direct copies - not just functional equivalence, but identical class/id/selector names. (Note: this vague recollection might not have been about the particular WordPress theme in the parent comment, but I do recall looking at one of the early Svbtle WP clones and seeing this)

pavs 13y ago

Highly unlikely. Wordpress is the opposite of simplicity, its highly configurable and thats (one of the reasons) why its so widely used. HN or hacker community is a very small community and its hardly the microcosm of the internet.

ishansharma 13y ago
But Hacker Community is the one that guides others towards new technologies. 10 years from now, Octopress may be prime blogging platform or second best!
- coldtea 13y ago
  >But Hacker Community is the one that guides others towards new technologies. 10 years from now, Octopress may be prime blogging platform or second best! Not really -- they just like to believe it works that way. What the more people chose is based on more pragmatic issues and market factors that "what the geeks use". And no, "we advice the rest of the family / friends what to buy" doesn't cut it either. We may do it, for OUR friends/family, but in total we are very few, and our friends/families aggregated are insignificant statistical noise to the general population. And nobody mimicks them either. The "hacker community" doesn't even influence the general programming community (which is like 1000 times bigger). For example, most people use Java or .NET and not Haskell or Smalltalk or LISP etc -- heck, in the ranks of the millions of the general programming community, not even that many use Python. And that's why even in programming circles Wordpress wins 2 or 3 orders of magnitude to all things like Octopress aggregated What does happen is that sometimes the Hacker community embraces a new technology first. But getting there first is not like "guiding others". In the same sense that a tiny minority of underground music fans might have liked some obscure band 5 years before it become mainstream. That doesn't mean that they are the factor the band "made it big". If that was it, then the dozens of other obscure bands they like would have "made it big" or close to big, too.
  - ownagefool 13y ago
    I'd say it was a mistake to be thinking that people who use Java or .Net aren't hackers. :)

minimaxir 13y ago

WordPress is what's being pushed for 100% control by personal bloggers and businesses. Unfortunately, there are no good alternatives, especially for those who aren't tech-savvy. (I still recommend Tumblr over WordPress if you aren't blogging professionally, though)

jacques_chester 13y ago

> there is an increasing shift to minimalist blogging stacks I regret that this is bubble talk. If you think non-software types are going to publish blog posts at a command line, I don't know what else to say.