Post ADMfSPPFOh6vrKuJEm by sean@social.deadsuperhero.com
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(DIR) Post #AD1v6J9MIioKl8UjZY by sean@social.deadsuperhero.com
2021-11-03T16:54:35.589679Z
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#Ghost is kind of great as a publishing platform, but it's kind of frustrating that there's no native support for comments, and no announcements on their founder's interest in ActivityPub support.All I want is a nice, fast, polished blog that's capable of federation! 😓
(DIR) Post #AD1vM3fLdcJzMyy3w8 by sean@social.deadsuperhero.com
2021-11-03T16:57:26.627090Z
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Of course, this is one of those open source projects where everyone involved is like:"It's open source! You can fork it to add whatever features you want!"And while that's true, the sheer amount of energy in maintaining a fork and pulling in upstream changes without breaking anything gets harder and harder over time.It's almost better to start over from scratch.
(DIR) Post #AD1wEUfNT0i8kPwF3A by Azure@tailswish.industries
2021-11-03T17:07:18.150937Z
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@sean This right here is one reason I don't pay too much attention to people who scold folks for starting their own project instead of modifying another.(That and I think they underestimate the effort in understanding someone else's code. I think there's definitely a threshold below which the effort of writing from scratch and getting exactly what you want is less than understanding their system and adapting it to get what you want while preserving what they want.)Though I think the benefits of magpiracy are underrated, where one gathers up useful pieces of others' code and incorporates them into ones own.
(DIR) Post #AD1y1La28bFii9IWQq by matrixsasuke@fedi.absturztau.be
2021-11-03T17:27:19.557009Z
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@sean What about WriteFreely and Plume for example?
(DIR) Post #AD1y8umJfckVu3eSBs by sean@social.deadsuperhero.com
2021-11-03T17:28:41.741234Z
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@matrixsasuke They're just not that good. I hate being that guy, but I don't enjoy either of them as an end user.
(DIR) Post #AD1yC0IraLGxuJLdwG by matrixsasuke@fedi.absturztau.be
2021-11-03T17:29:14.660151Z
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@sean ok..
(DIR) Post #AD1yIt8KdnZ3hIhlJ2 by matrixsasuke@fedi.absturztau.be
2021-11-03T17:30:30.313764Z
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@sean Maybe they'll get better over time...The layout of Medium articles still seems nicer to me as well...
(DIR) Post #AD24L5knHzMf8v84Dw by sl007@digitalcourage.social
2021-11-03T18:37:33Z
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@sean Yes. Full ack. 1) https://discuss.write.as/t/potential-changes-to-the-free-plan/37402) In 2016 I had a conversation with Ghost founder Hannah Wolfe about 2 things: - The Merriweather font- ActivityPub One of it was really important … ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(DIR) Post #AD24k9Ahibr6z0CBii by sean@social.deadsuperhero.com
2021-11-03T18:42:38.358020Z
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@sl007 See here: https://twitter.com/DeadSuperHero/status/1385824619639107586?t=pfU-J1C6g0OWSxOJHLwmmA&s=19
(DIR) Post #AD26qGGeRssodW1LTE by sl007@digitalcourage.social
2021-11-03T18:51:28Z
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@sean See my answer to your tweet here: https://twitter.com/sl007/status/1386234179369713664;))PS: If #NGI0 would have funded our 8 people team or any of the other wonderful ActivityPub BloggingSpace/CMS proposals …But they choosed to better not. :(PPS:Matt (but also me, ping please) would love to hear your thoughts, e.g. here https://writing.exchange/@matt/107214285063962685 What would you expect to be key features and nice to have gimmicks? :)
(DIR) Post #ADMfSOthHzsEHU973o by omnicaritas@mastodon.sdf.org
2021-11-13T17:03:35Z
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@sean Just been checking it out. Any other suggestions? Grav?
(DIR) Post #ADMfSPPFOh6vrKuJEm by sean@social.deadsuperhero.com
2021-11-13T17:08:15.557440Z
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@omnicaritas Nothing definitive yet. Some parts of Ghost, I really like, but the whole thing feels limited.