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by thebaer 8y ago
That's great feedback. I've always felt the way it's presented was sub-optimal, so it's good to at least confirm that :) Consumers are our focus, but we do need those few business customers to help get us to profitabilit
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by thebaer 8y ago
That's definitely good to know -- I appreciate the insight! We were indeed headed down this route in the early days with these integrations. In another life, I might do this. Particularly, having a simple format (like plain text /
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by thebaer 8y ago
I never said either of those things.
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by thebaer 8y ago
They didn't explain why the "interruption" has existed at least a week, or why they didn't notify anyone in that time. Our application doesn't seem to exist in their system anymore, even after their most recent emai
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by thebaer 8y ago
Author here -- just got a response from Medium, though it's still confusing: > We recently experienced an interruption with API, and the ability to generate new oAuth-based applications has been restricted. I have reenabled that fea
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Ending our Medium integration(write.as)
936 points by thebaer 8y ago|367 comments
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by thebaer 8y ago
Just to mention, MySQL isn't actually required for WriteFreely -- as of v0.6, you can use SQLite instead.
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by thebaer 8y ago
Hah, indeed. Happy to help make the web better in many ways :)
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by thebaer 8y ago
Nice! I'm going to follow a similar path for Snap.as and the rest: getting the product right as a hosted platform (only worrying about a single configuration, not doing additional project management, moving faster, etc.), and then go o
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by thebaer 8y ago
We'll eventually build in image uploads, but for now, you need to upload them somewhere and then use a little Markdown to insert the image: ![the earth](https://i.snap.as/6NFG7Tj.jpg) Here's a guide: https
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by thebaer 8y ago
Awesome! Thank you!
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by thebaer 8y ago
Thanks! This is great feedback -- I'll be sure to incorporate it. Otherwise let me know if I can help with anything as you get set up.
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by thebaer 8y ago
Today I solve this on Write.as with a site called Read Write.as [0], which has a modest, but regular group of readers -- that's my model. So for the WriteFreely project, I'm also building a federated reader app [1] that'll co
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by thebaer 8y ago
Right now it's aimed at existing users of decentralized social software (e.g. Mastodon), but yeah, that's great feedback. Thanks for the input!
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by thebaer 8y ago
Yep, it supports microformats and RSS -- and I'd like to integrate more IndieWeb stuff, like Micropub. You can also configure the server to not federate your posts if you prefer.
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by thebaer 8y ago
That lowest plan lets you connect a custom domain and publish to Read.Write.as -- there isn't much more to it that isn't already included in the free plan. If you want to try out everything on Pro, though, let me know your usernam
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by thebaer 8y ago
Yep! This is the core software behind it all, so bug fixes and new features will make it into Write.as too. It's also kept up-to-date with changes as soon as they're finished, so you'll see everything live there first. Really
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by thebaer 8y ago
Absolutely. We do support MathJax already (you can enable it in blog settings), but I'm happy to talk about adding these into upstream, or maybe starting to support plugins for these sort of things. If you want to join the forums [0] w
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by thebaer 8y ago
Possibly! If someone wants to implement the Client-to-Server side of ActivityPub I'll be happy to merge it in. But I'd personally like to build support for protocols like Micropub [0] into the backend and our first-party clients [
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by thebaer 8y ago
We do have discounts for open source projects [0], but send me an email (hello at write.as) -- I'd be happy to talk about a bigger discount for what you're doing. [0] https://write.as/pricing/opensource
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by thebaer 8y ago
The editorial "we" I suppose :) As for the code, yep I built everything myself (and wrote about it here [0]). But I've also had the help of people translating the app, giving feedback, and making suggestions along the way. Li
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by thebaer 8y ago
Thanks :) You're exactly right, which is why it'll support SQLite by v1.0. Again this came out of our hosted platform, so there's still plenty to do to make it easy for self-hosting. But the goal is an entirely self-contained
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by thebaer 8y ago
To explain a little more behind this project: this started out as a simple, privacy-focused blogging platform called Write.as. We've been running a Mastodon instance for a while and keeping up with the fediverse, so over the summer as
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by thebaer 8y ago
Here's the source code: https://github.com/writeas/writefreely As mentioned, it's an open source project.
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Show HN: WriteFreely – minimalist, federated blogging platform(writefreely.org)
337 points by thebaer 8y ago|112 comments
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by thebaer 8y ago
Well, yes. This is the internet growing up. Servers cost money. People making the software and running the servers cost money. Previously those costs were hidden from end-users, usually by advertising-based business models. Now that consume
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When Will Autonomous Vehicles Be Safe Enough?(blog.ucsusa.org)
1 points by thebaer 8y ago|0 comments
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by thebaer 8y ago
...and then notify every ISP, every place that offers free public Wi-Fi, every airline that has Wi-Fi on their planes, anyone else who injects code into web pages...
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by thebaer 8y ago
Then it wouldn't work on Medium-powered sites like hackernoon.com. There is an open, up-for-grabs issue to fix that permission [0] if anyone wants to help us solve this! In the meantime, there isn't anything crazy you have to do t
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by thebaer 8y ago
Yep, you can see this type of commenting in action already on Plume [0], an AP-enabled blogging platform in development. [0] https://baptiste.gelez.xyz/~/PlumeDevelopment/this-month-in-...

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