[HN Gopher] Show HN: I made a free blogging/bookmarking platform...
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       Show HN: I made a free blogging/bookmarking platform with
       discussions/discovery
        
       Author : TheRealNGenius
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2021-05-27 11:07 UTC (11 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (wndr.xyz)
 (TXT) w3m dump (wndr.xyz)
        
       | kreelman wrote:
       | I like the comments. They're direct, probably useful and
       | importantly kind and friendly. Well done all.
        
       | masukomi wrote:
       | Congrats on putting this out there, but I don't get it. I mean
       | that honestly not as a half-assed dis. Maybe this just isn't for
       | me.
       | 
       | I have thousands of bookmarks and I don't understand how i'd use
       | this to retrieve anything efficiently. I assume they'd just show
       | up as post-like-things in the stream. I don't see any examples of
       | blogging or why a stream? interface to a blog is a particularly
       | good idea... sure for a front page but after that every blogging
       | platform has basically decided "yeah scrolling forever to find a
       | thing is bad way to find old posts.
       | 
       | Also, the free is concerning to me. Loosing blog posts or
       | bookmarks because the place you hosted them didn't have a
       | business plan to pay for hosting and can just be killed without
       | concern because there's no potential loss of money is ... yeah.
       | insta-nope for me. Don't want to loose all that effort.
        
         | TheRealNGenius wrote:
         | Thanks for the comments. Yeah, you're right. Your posts show up
         | in a stream, or if they are pictures/video, you can see them in
         | a gallery as well. Ie: https://wndr.xyz/users/NGenius2/images
         | 
         | I built this with the intention of sharing interesting things
         | (links, images, videos, or longer blog posts) so anything you
         | post will show up in your own profile stream and on the public
         | stream. For blog posts, only the title shows up, but after
         | clicking it, the full post can be viewed. Ie:
         | https://wndr.xyz/posts/9fjM1tOJO7MWX4fYw3AU2Q==/what-s-art-a...
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         | I'm using the current $7 hobby tier from Heroku for hosting,
         | which because of the student plan is free. And since images and
         | videos are links, hosting costs are currently not a problem.
         | 
         | Thanks for the feedback. Appreciate your thoughts even though
         | this might not be for you :)
        
       | jonplackett wrote:
       | Cool idea. You need a mobile CSS rule. Can't read a thing.
        
         | TheRealNGenius wrote:
         | Thanks, I'll fix that. Is everything just shrunk? Cause from my
         | laptop/ipad it's generally fine. You can temporarily fix this
         | by pinching to zoom if you like.
        
           | werber wrote:
           | You can mock the view using the phone button in the top left
           | of your browser to help do mobile styles without having to
           | use a device
        
           | jonplackett wrote:
           | Hey yes everything is just tiny on my iPhone.
           | 
           | You can see it really easily with Chrome dev
           | tools.https://www.browserstack.com/guide/view-mobile-version-
           | of-we...
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           | Should only take you 5 minutes to just bump up font sizes.
           | 
           | Another useful thing is to set the device width meta tag
           | which tells mobile phones width to use. I find it helps me
           | standardise how things look - whatever width you put in there
           | you can use that as the cut off for your media query
           | 
           | <meta name="viewport" content="width = 720, user-scalable=0,
           | minimal-ui">
        
       | stevenicr wrote:
       | The idea in the hn title is interesting - but I do not see
       | anything on the page saying how it would work for bookmarks.. is
       | it a bookmarklet like worpdress kind of thing?
       | 
       | A bookmark importer kind of idea?
       | 
       | I've never checked to see if anyone has made a bookmarks-file-
       | importer for a blogging type thing - it's a good idea for many
       | reasons.
       | 
       | Should be easy to import and create 'posts' in wordpress - I just
       | don't know enough about the chrome and firefox bookamrks - how
       | they are exported , the sqllite setup?
       | 
       | which makes me think it wouldn't be too hard to push an
       | import/export into activitypub / mastadon / matrix..
       | 
       | If these things have been made I've not seen them - so there is
       | some market for doing this kind of thing I believe - and I could
       | see different types of people using bookmarklet like
       | functionality if it was also one-click export the post to own
       | blog plus insta plus fb plus whatever brdige matrix put out a
       | while back.
       | 
       | random thoughts
        
       | stanislavb wrote:
       | Hey mate, I noticed that you haven't built RSS support yet. It's
       | a must for a blogging system.
        
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