Show HN: Brick, a free Notion-like tool for zero-hassle site making

Spam and abuse aren't exactly minor problems for publishing platforms, they're arguably the primary existential threat, the most important thing to address. Preventing them is capital-H Hard, and not the kind of thing that can be easily retrofitted to an architecture that hasn't been designed with them in mind from the beginning...

Examples: github.com vs. github.io, wordpress.org vs. wordpress.com (note that these are not subdomains, but distinct domains).

Doing so allows you to keep the two separate as far as SEO is concerned, so that your main project isn't affected regardless of what users might upload.

Then it's about putting out the fires whenever they appear.

I'd also be careful about JavaScript, since a site hosted on example.com/a will have the same origin as a site hosted on example.com/b (and therefore access to cookies). This is where a separate subdomain for each user comes in handy (so a.example.com vs b.example.com), which shouldn't be much of an issue since DNS providers usually have an API that you can call, and DNS updates should be fast when you're creating entries (as opposed to modifying existing ones).

1) Mine, Heroku, we host your applications on the herokuapp.com zone not heroku.com. Putting customer sites on heroku.com would open that zone up for the kind of de-valuing the OP suggested.

2) Look at Github, githubusercontent.com is where your uploaded files are served from, not github.com. For the same reasons.

No, only after a page refresh.

I think we won't have automatic page refresh because it gets complicated if the author e.g. decides to add a JS script to the page. But maybe not! Or maybe we'll add it for 99% of the users who don't embed JS into their pages.

We prioritize feature requests from paying customers, so buying the $20/year plan is a good way to get MathJax significantly faster.

Roam also doesn't let you have several workspaces/databases, I think.

In my experience, I actually /want/ different things in my life (notes, diaries, public writing, etc) to be in different places. I even have several note-taking apps for different contexts, even though the feature sets are very similar.

I know that for some people, being able to have EVERYTHING in one place is an awesome feature. But for me and possibly others, it's the opposite.

Long-term, we definitely need more security-minded folks on the team.

Short-term, I will add an email address in the footer so that such issues can at least be reported privately.

I purposely don’t tie my account credentials to a 3rd party.

(Which always seemed crazy to me that people would do. Especially business accounts)

EDIT: why am I getting downvotes for this comment? I’d rather you reply to this comment to create a health dialogue on this topic if you have an opinion - rather than just some random downvote without reason.

And, frankly, there is zero chance I'm going to host a site with a provider who thinks it is.

In the future, Notion and Brick will drift away significantly. Notion is unlikely to have E2E encrypted pages. Notion is unlikely to have built-in support for newsletters, especially paid newsletters a la Substack. Notion is unlikely to get built-in analytics. Etc.

Notion is powerful enough that you can use it as a pretty good writing platform, but swimming against the flow is always harder. Notion's flow, the way it seems to me, is management and knowledge bases. Ie. it's primarily for co-workers, and it is good for writers insofar as co-workers have to be writers sometimes.

I am Artyom Kazak, aka @availablegreen on Twitter. I was born in Belarus, a small Eastern European country, and lived there till 18. ... I am turning 25 in October 2020, and that is when I plan to quit coding—as a birthday gift to myself.

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Edit: Also thanks for sharing that RF article. Great read.