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This looks to have been heavily inspired by Medium and their ilk (who were in turn no doubt inspired by the simplicity of the SVBTLE network). If anything, it
by muglug 13y ago
This looks to have been heavily inspired by Medium and their ilk (who were in turn no doubt inspired by the simplicity of the SVBTLE network).
If anything, it confirms the importance of the hard work that the Medium team have been doing w/r/t online article UX, and it'll be interesting to see what comes of it.
- nphaskins 13y agoYep you're actually spot on. I wanted to combine the interactive aspects of sites like Medium, Svbtle, Narrative.ly, exposure, and others, while leveraging an already existing and matured CMS, WordPress. The WordPress theme itself handles the styling of the components. This way theme authors can design with little to no restrictions. Lots of room for growth, improvement, and iterations.
- jboynyc 13y agoI don't really think that's what it's modeled on. More likely it's a descendant of the New York Times format for multimodal stories à la "Snow Fall": http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/ http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/