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Comment by RobMcCullough | Hacker News Reader

Looks great! The design and typography are quite nice! I hate to be "that guy," but have you seen pen.io? Your site seems very similar. Also, what is the reasoning behind eventually removing articles. Is there an option to disable this feature?

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Hey rob, thanks. Yup I've seen pen.io but it doesn't offer drafting, the writing experience is not that nice and the posts are not optimized for reading nor on pc or mobile devices, and we will also suport markdown syntax for writing.). The removing of article is an idea we have in mind, as we thought unreaden and unshared articles are just dead articles so why not just remove them? But this idea is not implemented atm so articles wont be removed. What you think on this? Would love ot ehar your thoughts on this direction.

I would prefer if articles remain.

You don't want to burn a book just because it's old.

Something like ESR's how to become a hacker[0] is several years old, but it's still valuable and people still link to it.

[0] http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html

Agree! Looks like you are not the only one giving us this feedback so don't worry, feathers post will keep floating on the clout :)

Good to know. Thanks for answering my comment! I went ahead and signed up for the beta as you struck my curiosity with the writing environment teaser! As for my thoughts on removing old content, I get a kick out of going back through the websites I used to frequent and reading things I wrote. The pack-rat in me would prefer to always have access to my past work. But, I do understand the logic in wanting to keep all of the content fresh. Maybe you could remove it but provide an option to have an old piece salvaged for a small fee?

Yup i see your points and they make sense to me, really thank you for sharing and explaining them further ;-)

Maybe you could still leave it up to the author? i.e. just list inactive blog entries, for how long they've been inactive, and a quick way to delete some/all of them.

Yup that could be a way to go, although I think that when you leave it so, people will just forget to get back and change such settings hover again. For quick deleting you can already do this right now, straight form the public page of the article if you are logged in(as well as per editing)

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