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Desperately needs an "About" page which gives some indication of who's behind this, what the plans for it are re. funding, and why it was created. Basically, you need to give people some sense that this will stay around and continue to operate under terms people are willing to live with before they will spend a lot of time adding content.

Also, if this takes off, I hope you are ready for the scammers and spammers who will want to take advantage of it.

Agreed, this has actually been around since 2017 though haha -- started off as a note taking platform and I rebuilt it from scratch recently

thanks for making it for us. the scrolling animation was nice, a moment to reminisce on our fallen friend <marquee>

Thank you! :)

If you wanna see something stranger, check out https://straw.page

It's a website builder I made designed for weird sites, with marquee and wordart! :)

That's so cool :) Just curious, while I've got you on the line, what's your actual desk or workspace look like?

I made a page to test it out - this reminds me of a way cooler expages. love the wysiwyg builder https://aliqot.straw.page/

Weirdly enough, I think I'm one of the few that don't have a proper setup - I just work on my bed off my laptop hahaha

Edit: And amazing, glad you like StrawPage! :)

marvelous, thanks! I hope you keep the 'flavor' that your sites have now on your inevitable ascent to wherever you end up at the top.

For sure haha, and thank you! :))

That was a lovely message you left.

Even if some guy says it's deprecated, I still use it!

you're alright in my book :)

Amazing haha

Also, privacy? It claims to be anonymous - how far do you go in keeping things anonymous?

The https://notepin.co/ home page would benefit enormously from links to some example blogs hosted on the platform.

I found some by running a Google search for site:notepin.co but I imagine most people won't think to do that - and it's asking a lot to require users to create an account before they can see what the end product will look like.

Will do! But they can get straight to the editor without any signup -- and publishing a blog doesn't require an email address

Honestly for me the biggest burden is being asked to pick a password! Now I have to open up my password manager, generate a new password, write it down... it's a non-zero amount of commitment.

Good point, will add the demo blogs! :)

Works! I pasted a rough draft brain dump that I had in my notes for a first post about product management bullshit:

https://colors.notepin.co/product-management-bullshit

Awesome haha, and relieved that it works! :)

Why do you have word-break: break-all; on anchor tags? Makes the home/archive pages look bad.

Example: https://colors.notepin.co

text-align: justify; would however make the pages look nice though.

Fixing!

Edit: Fixed! :)

You are very welcome.

nice post!

@blueridge Well done!!!

For your next blog post, you might consider adding Jabberwocky! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knAvKI33LOM

Because, "...products are for people who don't have a presentation!"

Oh I had not seen this before, pure gold. Ha!

I agree with others, the homepage _looks_ awesome, but it could use at least a tiny bit more info, links to existing blogs, something. Might just be me, but I didn't assume the get started link would take me to an editor, and I wasn't ready to go through a signup workflow. Might help to make that a little more obvious ("go to the editor").

Editor also looks pleasant. Reminds me quite a bit of Telegraph (https://telegra.ph/)

Thank you! :)

And agreed, will add a Demo blog shortly + Update the button text!

"a tiny bit more info"

that is... maybe overly polite.

It needs info. It needs LOTS of info. "a tiny bit more info" is not helpful when there is no info to begin with.

"minimalist blogging platform" tells me ONLY that there will be a blog produced at the end of my endeavors. The site itself doesn't even say minimalist. It says "extremely simple". Is it a static blog? Is it a dynamic blog? Does it use Markdown? Does it use a WYSYWYG editor? Does it even HAVE an editor? Does it have themes? Is it even themable? Can i get my data out of it? can I have my own domain? If I don't want to use my domain, what are my domain options. Is any part of it configurable? Is it open source? Is it minimalist, or is it simple, or is it both?

No-one should sign up for blogging platform soley because someone claimed, without any supporting evidence, that it's "extremely simple"

It's missing RSS/Atom feeds, which I think are a pretty important feature for a blogging platform. Not too hard of a feature to add, though.

Will add today! :)

Nice! Reminds me of iA writer - clean, distraction free and simple!

I hope it stays that way :+1:

Edit:

Small point: needs favicon, just added to home screen and it got the browser icon...

Thank you! And for sure haha, plan to keep it distraction-free and minimal! :)

And thanks for pointing that out - fixing!

Digging the design! Especially the SVG text train around the border. Is it 100% animated by SVG or is there some JS involved?

Thank you! :)

There's some JS involved to create the size of the SVG based on the window size!

It appears to be down. (Maybe it’s just me though.)

Hmm, does it work now?

Yes, it loads now!

Nice!

Why? What itch does this scratch?

Why not? It's an easy way to create an online blog, with a nice distraction-free editor.

This looks cool. Use case for whistleblower situations, to post info anonymously online with a link to share? Like archive.today for text (and could also be posted there). Not spam, real stuff.

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