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       Show HN: I made an open-source publishing platform (with minimal
       JavaScript)
        
       Author : archiecodes
       Score  : 23 points
       Date   : 2021-05-26 19:59 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (zentrum.alles.cx)
 (TXT) w3m dump (zentrum.alles.cx)
        
       | FalconSensei wrote:
       | That looks cool!
       | 
       | A suggestion would be to, on the edit page, add a link to or a
       | pane with markdown syntax, just in case people forget something,
       | or also to make it easier for people who might not be familiar.
        
       | e12e wrote:
       | Hug of death?
       | 
       | https://web.archive.org/web/20210526200622/https://zentrum.a...
       | 
       | Looks like the self-hosted git repo is down too (and not in The
       | Archive).
        
       | pedalpete wrote:
       | Looks like it's down. Where are you hosting it? I'd think a
       | minimalist open-source publishing platform would be able to
       | withstand being on HN.
        
       | dkarras wrote:
       | >Why can't we just have a minimal place to just publish our
       | thoughts, without having to use a static site generator or setup
       | a Wordpress/Ghost instance?
       | 
       | Because if this gets even remotely successful (actually used by
       | people) you'd need a way to pay for costs at minimum. So you
       | either get people to pay (hard sell given the "free" competitors)
       | or monetize by other means -> bloat
       | 
       | Self host (open source) and you're probably worse off than just
       | using a static site generator.
       | 
       | Not trying to flame your effort here, just that there is a really
       | fundamental reason for why we can't have nice things. This model
       | only works... if it doesn't work (doesn't get popular, doesn't
       | actually get used by people)
        
         | milkey_mouse wrote:
         | I don't know if this service allows uploading images, but if it
         | doesn't, storing text is cheap. "Too cheap to meter," as they
         | used to say about nuclear power (although that turned out to be
         | a pipe dream). For simple sites like these GitHub & GitLab
         | Pages is free, or NearlyFreeSpeech is "nearly free" as the name
         | implies. Hell, set up an sdf.org account and serve out of
         | public_html. One of my hopes for the future of computing is as
         | storage, bandwidth and compute get more efficient and cheaper
         | (and fees on financial transactions don't, and adblockers
         | become more prevalent), people decide it's not worth the effort
         | to charge users fractions of a penny for their use of a
         | service. Having the site's admins cover the cost isn't a big
         | deal if it's on the order of $5/month.
         | 
         | I would be more concerned about moderation than storage or
         | bandwidth usage. It's more difficult for text to be illegal
         | than images, but it's clearly still possible: hate speech,
         | copyright violations, etc. (whether it should be is another
         | argument...)
        
         | e12e wrote:
         | Maybe? https://neocities.org seems to be doing fine?
        
       | lrPrentice1 wrote:
       | Outstanding!
       | 
       | Please publish a tutorial on how to self host.
       | 
       | I think you've developed a winner.
       | 
       | LRP
        
       | archiecodes wrote:
       | Hey! I've been working on this for the past few days and I'd love
       | some feedback if you have any :)
        
         | eindiran wrote:
         | I will say I was very pleasantly surprised to see only a single
         | domain in NoScript's list of domains. That is extraordinarily
         | rare, even when on sites that are ostensibly pro-privacy. So
         | thank you for not stuffing your site with tracking and
         | analytics.
         | 
         | The feature where clicking a user's name immediately gives you
         | their RSS feed is a super cool idea. I'd make that a little
         | more obvious by adding hover text saying that's what it is, so
         | you don't need to look at the URL/click it to figure it out.
        
       | twobitshifter wrote:
       | Is there a way to look around without giving an email?
        
         | archiecodes wrote:
         | There isn't really anything to look at right now - it's just a
         | place for you to post stuff. If people use it more, I'll add
         | top posts to the homepage :)
        
           | itsbits wrote:
           | it would be better if you can share some login info
        
       | messo wrote:
       | I like it! Perfect for people valuing simplicity but lacking the
       | time or skill to self-host.
        
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