[HN Gopher] Chips and Cheese State of the Union
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Chips and Cheese State of the Union
Author : brian_herman
Score : 58 points
Date : 2024-05-10 00:01 UTC (23 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (chipsandcheese.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (chipsandcheese.com)
| gautamcgoel wrote:
| Please don't move to Substack. You have a beautiful website which
| I enjoy visiting. I never enjoy opening Substack.
| noahtallen wrote:
| Plus, WordPress is open source (a philosophy the org supports),
| isn't inherently insecure (the main thing that will make it
| insecure is a shady plugin, so don't install random plugins
| that look weird), and really shouldn't be that expensive to
| operate with a CDN in front of it. You can totally do
| newsletters with WordPress too. The only benefit Substack
| _really_ has is that it gives you everything out of the box.
| Which is an amazing benefit. But you can accomplish every
| listed goal there with WordPress!
|
| _aside: am a WP core contributor, so I may be biased :p_
| gary_0 wrote:
| I usually just hit the back button if I see the Substack
| layout, because I've wasted too much time reading a teaser and
| then hitting the obnoxious paywall at the bottom. (Paywalls on
| _blogs_! What has the world come to?)
| KTibow wrote:
| I've seen many paywalls on HN but I've never seen a Substack
| one. Maybe the ones with paywalls just don't get submitted.
| skywal_l wrote:
| I've been spending some time on Quake resources these past few
| weeks. Writing tools to parse Quake data files, writing a
| QuakeC VM, etc. What's great is that the resources from that
| era are old-school HTML pages. No Javascript, no cookie banner.
| Easy to save and parse. Easy to search into.
|
| If you produce actual interesting content that are archival
| worthy (which I think Chip and Cheese does) you should really
| make sure your content delivery platform is as simple as
| possible. Take HN as an example.
|
| What matters is the content of your article, not how they are
| presented. Most of the time, presentation these days gets in
| the way between you and the content. And substack clearly does.
| gary_0 wrote:
| I consider simple HTML pages as a quality signal. Whereas if
| the content is posted on a large platform, I'll consider it
| likely to be rubbish (if I can read the content at all
| without demands to install the app, sign up, or subscribe).
| chronogram wrote:
| > We've been considering moving over to Substack
|
| > Decreased monthly cost compared to the current WordPress +
| Cloudflare setup
|
| Curious what the setup currently is that it is considering
| monthly costs? It 'only' had 911 369 views in 2023, that is not
| particularly taxing for static content.
| klelatti wrote:
| Huge congratulations to the Chips and Cheese team on what they
| have achieved. The quality and volume of posts on the site -
| particularly from clamchowder - has been stunning.
|
| IMHO sustainability of the site should be a primary concern. The
| team should really do what they think is best, given their time
| and resources, to enable them to continue to deliver on their
| mission.
| high_na_euv wrote:
| I think your current layout is great
| Voultapher wrote:
| Congratulations on the success so far! Clamchowder's
| contributions shine light into micro-architectures in a way that
| is without parallel. I always look forward to new articles,
| especially on the CPU side.
|
| Substack is not great. Please look for something else.
|
| The two major aspects I'd like to see improved are:
|
| - Consistent and easy way to access to full resolution images
|
| - Reader-mode support, right now it's hit or miss with many
| pictures just not rendering
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