[HN Gopher] Paged Out Issue #3
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Paged Out Issue #3
Author : woodruffw
Score : 92 points
Date : 2023-12-18 16:09 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| aspenmayer wrote:
| More info about the 4 year delay, changes to the
| management/publication structure, and more are on the blog, which
| perhaps the post should link to instead:
|
| https://pagedout.institute/?page=blog.php#entry-2023-12-18
| vaughnegut wrote:
| Super happy to see this, I'd given up hope and had been checking
| in around once a year until this year. It's such a fun format for
| a magazine.
| solarkraft wrote:
| I'd really like some prints ...
| gynvael wrote:
| True for us all...
| tnballo wrote:
| Congrats to the Paged Out team for bringing back the community
| zine after 4 years!
|
| Between the old-school hacker spirit and the short-form content,
| this is a real gem.
| Rendello wrote:
| Glad to see it back! I contributed a few to #2, including the
| only "landscape mode" article, which was probably a bit of a pain
| in the ass for the team ;)
| whatamidoingyo wrote:
| I said it in 2019
| (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20673905), and I'll say it
| again - a physical edition would be neat. Any plans for this?
| gynvael wrote:
| Yes (with a lot of small print)!
|
| Good news is that we're already chatting with two print houses
| about printing around 1k copies (test print basically). The
| plan is to give these away on various events / conferences, or
| to local communities.
|
| Bad news is that we'll be able to only send these to EU, and
| only in large batches (like 100 copies to one place), and not
| individually.
|
| Good news is that we'll make the printer-house-friendly PDFs
| available for anyone who wants to print a batch and given them
| away (or sell them for the cost of making).
|
| And I also have this idea to chat with various companies for
| them to make a sponsor-batch of zines to print and give away,
| e.g. on events they sponsor. Not sure how much interest there
| will be.
|
| We also plan to make a nice "collector's" high-quality print of
| a bundle edition (e.g. 4 issues in one "book") to help get some
| money into the project. Same as PoC||GTFO did (shoutout to
| these folks), though we'll probably go with a kickstarter or
| sth.
|
| Now, the elephant in the room: selling individual issues in a
| consistent always-available way - that's something we're
| discussing from time to time. At this moment we're not there
| yet, as the logistics and accounting stuff of this operation
| would be pretty huge. I'm also thinking of approaching some
| local magazine publishers in some countries with a deal like
| "hey, we have PDFs, wanna print and sell these for a %?".
|
| So yeah, it's complicated(tm) ;)
| rudasn wrote:
| It would be very cool if each issue had its unique "website",
| and each article it's own unique page (different colors or
| layout, but consistent with that issue's overall theme).
|
| Some blogs used to do this back in the day, where each post
| had its own unique design.
|
| Something like mkdocs with material theme, or Hugo could do
| the trick. Or, you know, plain old hand crafted html and css
| and a script to generate the pdfs (with headless chrome for
| maximum compatibility).
| moralestapia wrote:
| Wow! This was already 100% memory holed by me, what a pleasant
| surprise to see this coming back!
|
| I wrote a small article for your 2nd edition, and I'd love to
| write again for your 4th edition (hopefully sooner than 2026,
| lol).
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