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"Open" for use but not for inspection / modification / sharing… It's like all sorts of SaaS: it's a lock-in, a jail, that is open for you to enter. Ok, that's a

"Open" for use but not for inspection / modification / sharing… It's like all sorts of SaaS: it's a lock-in, a jail, that is open for you to enter. Ok, that's a bit harsh. But still, we've got lots of good tools like this, we don't need another proprietary thing. It looks nice though, would be useful if it were fully FLOSS.

debacle 13y ago
Don't blame svbtle. It's the monetization strategy of the Internet, and has been for 20 years.
- Karunamon 13y ago
  I can and do blame them for (apparently) not having an export function.
  - icebraining 13y ago
    They do offer a way of exporting, and in a standard format: an Atom feed. Any blog engine worth its salt should allow you to import them.
    - Karunamon 13y ago
      Not quite the same. The atom feed will represent the compiled and rendered end content. If I have, say, source code snippets, that leaves me in a position of needing to parse out the original code so I can redo it in whatever new highlighting syntax my new blog uses. I might end up with resized images instead of originals, etc etc etc. It's not a real substitute for a proper backend export. This is why I'm such a huge fan of Octopress and nothing has been able to pull me away from it. Everything's in a git repo. Backups are one command. All my original text is safe in Markdown format. It might not look as cool as Medium or Svbtle, or have all the features, but it's relatively easy to use, and more importantly immune to platform lock-in.
      - icebraining 13y ago
        Fair enough. I actually use a static blog generator myself (Pelican[1]), but I write so rarely that I hadn't considered those issues. [1] http://blog.getpelican.com/ http://blog.getpelican.com/
  - mcb3k 13y ago
    That is one thing I've been impressed with about Google Takeout, is that I can download all my blogger data into a big ol' XML file. It makes me feel a little better about using a hosted platform. I'm hoping that this trend will be catch on and will get more hosted services supporting export functionality in the future.
- quadrangle 13y ago
  Indeed, they are not the primary source of the unethical business model they are following.
rguldener 13y ago
Should take a look at Ghost then, found it mentioned in another comment deep in the tree here: Open Source (MIT licensed), self hosted (or hosted for a small fee), non-profit setup and a core focus on blogging. Link: https://ghost.org/ https://ghost.org/
- quadrangle 13y ago
  Thanks! Ghost looks wonderful!

debacle 13y ago

Don't blame svbtle. It's the monetization strategy of the Internet, and has been for 20 years.

Karunamon 13y ago
I can and do blame them for (apparently) not having an export function.
- icebraining 13y ago
  They do offer a way of exporting, and in a standard format: an Atom feed. Any blog engine worth its salt should allow you to import them.
  - Karunamon 13y ago
    Not quite the same. The atom feed will represent the compiled and rendered end content. If I have, say, source code snippets, that leaves me in a position of needing to parse out the original code so I can redo it in whatever new highlighting syntax my new blog uses. I might end up with resized images instead of originals, etc etc etc. It's not a real substitute for a proper backend export. This is why I'm such a huge fan of Octopress and nothing has been able to pull me away from it. Everything's in a git repo. Backups are one command. All my original text is safe in Markdown format. It might not look as cool as Medium or Svbtle, or have all the features, but it's relatively easy to use, and more importantly immune to platform lock-in.
    - icebraining 13y ago
      Fair enough. I actually use a static blog generator myself (Pelican[1]), but I write so rarely that I hadn't considered those issues. [1] http://blog.getpelican.com/ http://blog.getpelican.com/
- mcb3k 13y ago
  That is one thing I've been impressed with about Google Takeout, is that I can download all my blogger data into a big ol' XML file. It makes me feel a little better about using a hosted platform. I'm hoping that this trend will be catch on and will get more hosted services supporting export functionality in the future.
quadrangle 13y ago
Indeed, they are not the primary source of the unethical business model they are following.

rguldener 13y ago

Should take a look at Ghost then, found it mentioned in another comment deep in the tree here: Open Source (MIT licensed), self hosted (or hosted for a small fee), non-profit setup and a core focus on blogging. Link: https://ghost.org/ https://ghost.org/

quadrangle 13y ago
Thanks! Ghost looks wonderful!