Show HN: I made an open-source publishing platform (with minimal JavaScript)
zentrum.alles.cx
zentrum.alles.cx
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)
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...)
https://web.archive.org/web/20210526200622/https://zentrum.a...
Looks like the self-hosted git repo is down too (and not in The Archive).
30 votes and HN front page has ripple effects, and might have overwhelmed the creator. Sometimes it’s not even a matter of being sensitive to feedback, sometimes it’s just not being fully prepared for the emotional toll it can take.
If this hit HN front page, it almost certainly made the rounds on Twitter and Reddit, where criticism can be even more harsh and even less considerate of the human(s) behind the project.
I also hope they’re okay.
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.
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.
Please publish a tutorial on how to self host.
I think you’ve developed a winner.
LRP