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Svbtle now open to the public
- techsupporter 13y agoAs of 11:58PM CST, that web page says: "Want to be a part of the network? Awesome. But for now, we’re invite-only. You can apply for an account below, and we’ll send an invitation when we’re ready."
- brenfrow 13y agoRight... not exactly open to the public.
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- techsupporter 13y ago"twitter can't be blank" Why not?
- rukshn 13y agoso does the last name, for some reason last name can't be blank, do we have to use our last names? it's not a must. why is it compulsory? I don't know why it's not public to some people, i just signed up it was not as cool as i expected http://ruky.svbtle.com/trying-my-thing-with-svblte http://ruky.svbtle.com/trying-my-thing-with-svblte
- hkmurakami 13y agoclearly, it's because they don't want royalty to join! ;) (AFAIK, most royal families dont have last names)
- gaius 13y agoThey do, they just don't use them everyday. E.g. the Tudors were called the Tudors because that was their surname. Current lot are the Windsors I think.
- __chrismc 13y agoYes they are. They changed their surname to Windsor after high anti-German sentiment during WW1. [1] Prior to that they were the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha's.[2] [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Windsor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Windsor [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Saxe-Coburg_and_Gotha#United_Kingdom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Saxe-Coburg_and_Gotha#...
- DASD 13y agoSurprised they don't also ask for your Klout score.
- baddox 13y agoProbably because it is built around the assumption that the author has a twitter account.
- Grue3 13y agoI guess the question was, why would you make this assumption in the first place.
- jacobwg 13y agoAnd at 12:14AM CST it was a public signup for me...
- possibilistic 13y agoApprox 1:40 AM EST: "Want to be a part of the network? Awesome. But for now, we’re invite-only. You can apply for an account below, and we’ll send an invitation when we’re ready." Okay, great. So... "Something went wrong, and an error has occurred."
- th0ma5 13y agoI wovld like to vse this or listen to Chvrches, but I gvess neither option is set in stone.
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- antoinelyset 13y agoI wld prfr SBTRKT or MSTRKRFT.
- benatkin 13y agoCheck out Trve Brewery if you're ever in Denver.
- Ryel 13y agoIn a very sarcastic voice I would like to say how excited I am. Moving on to the next story...
- shalalala 13y agoIt appeared to only be open for a few moments. It was then redirecting to /apply. As of a few moments ago you could /signup again, but the accounts beings created have issues. Jeepers Creepers, boys! Get your act together.
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- Ryel 13y agoProbably a bad PR stunt. Not sure why they'd need that though; I'd rate their competition Medium at best...
- aabalkan 13y agoToo late, it's over. I don't want it anymore. I can get the exact same stuff with minimalistic Jekyll/Pelican themes and Svbtle is not exclusive anymore.
- triplesec 13y ago"Use my template, it's cool". I don't understand Medium either.
- hkmurakami 13y agoI wonder how much of this is influenced by medium and the approach they've taken.
- geuis 13y ago"Open to the public" doesn't mean restricted signup, we'll choose at our discretion.
- w1ntermute 13y agoWhat's the point of this? Can't you just use Obtvse?
- eps 13y agoIsn't this like shooting themselves in the foot? Svbtle exclusivity was the only differentiator, guaranteeing at least some quality of the content. Now it's gone and so Svbtle turns from a notable content source to just another blogging platform. What am I missing?
- tjarratt 13y agoThis same comment, except replace "Svbtle" with "Facebook" back when they opened up registrations for college students outside the Ivy League. It's not too far off from the much ballyhooed Slashdot quote on the first ipod. No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame. http://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-ipod http://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-ip...
- abcd_f 13y agoWhat a brainfart of a comment. You are missing the point completely. Facebook isn't a publishing platform. Apple didn't undermine its best feature in existing product by introducing iPod.
- argonaut 13y agoWhat an unnecessarily mean-spirited comment. Did you really need to say your first sentence? That being said, maybe you're missing the point. Maybe svbtle wants to be a mainstream publishing platform and is just bootstrapping its initial user culture by curating the users. Maybe not.
- yapcguy 13y agoNothing.
- namenotrequired 13y agoI wanted to use it because I just wanted a blog that would look as good as Medium but that I can install on my own domain. Any recommendations now that svbtle seems to have closed again?
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- notlisted 13y agoGroucho said it best... I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member. That said, opening it up would be a mistake, ask A Small World, aka the affluent circle jerkers. (Still miffed Paris Hilton never wrote me back).
- nycmattw 13y agoSomehow I got in without an invite. Lucky me?
- unicornporn 13y agoYes, because now it's broken.
- unicornporn 13y agoOh, lucky me. Signup seems to have been disabled while I was filling out the form (I was greeted with the form without Twitter handle forced etc). When I pressed "Apply" or whatever it said, I got to a page that said "Sorry, but we can't find that page.". Now mobile and desktop site redirects /signup to /apply. What a mess.
- electic 13y agoI would say that Medium killed them. The problem with svbtle is that there was absolutely zero hope for a long time to get in. If they made it exclusive but there was some way to work your way in, I think they would have done fine but it's too late now.
- tjarratt 13y agoNot so sure it's this simple. The market is pretty large. Not everything needs to be so black and white.
- kirbyk 13y agoI agree. I think Dustin has a lot left to show.
- cheesecarol 13y agoWho?
- jbrooksuk 13y agoOh well. I was looking forward to it but now I've got Ghost and it does pretty much everything I want it to.
- anentropic 13y agoWhat is it?
- bowerbird 13y agoi was never fooled by their "we're too good for you" stance, so i'm not even slightly inclined to apply for access. ever. one of the best things about the web is that nobody has to ask permission from anyone else to make their speech free. -bowerbird
- rukshn 13y agoi don't think the internet is free. Everything has a price. For example if you blog you've to pay for hosting, for a domain. Although $10 is nothing for for some asian countries it's a big communt. If you get it free still you can only do that until their money runs out like what happened to tumblr or else they'll put ads like what yahoo is about to do to tumblr. And wordpress ads that suck. So the internet is not free as people think it is.
- bowerbird 13y agowhen i was talking about free speech, i was talking about "free" as in "speech", not "free" as in "beer". although, to be honest, i also know of no free beer. -bowerbird