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What's up with the onscreen keyboard to type your username?

I guess it cuts down on scripts automatically opening and abusing accounts ?

How? You can still type in the box.

Maybe it's to work around public computers with keyloggers?

That's a bit odd. Normally the edit box is grayed out.

I have even seen, in some cases, these pictorial keyboards coming up with scrambled key arrangements.

Bit annoying for real users. But way harder for scripties.

Very nice. I will add it to my list of "friction free" writing webapps. Others on the list include: http://typerighter.com , writespace (chrome plugin: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/aimodnlfiikjjnmdch...) and my personal favorite: http://calepin.co

Sorry for the off-topic: Could you (or anyone) explain why I need to sign-in to Google in order to install this?

which?

Sorry. I was referring to Writespace. For some reason, it requires a sign-in, but another extension that is similar doesn't. So, I was wondering if this is author-specified or what.

Here in my opinion what a blogging platform needs as a least minimum features:

- Good SEO, signal. - A sense of ownership and trust by the user community.

A blog is like a home. An average person would most likely have one home to live. So a platform should provide enough comfort and trust-worthy mechanism for users to adopt. I guess every blogging platform started with this vision but over time, they lost trust-worthiness and a feel of comfort for users (unless you self-host).

It didn't feel right when Blogger was littered with neighbors who were spammers and pornographers, although blogspot was a fine and crisp start.

The guinea-pig aspect of Wordpress.com and their lack of control for user over their own blogs is another negative. I don't know much about Tumblr and others so I won't speak about them.

Ultimately, if you are providing blogging services as a platform for users to adopt, than you have to ensure that your ground has a solid foundation for users to build their houses.

Love the look and the speed of this.

The title to slug fails on non English text .. http://minikomi.authpad.com/

Also doubled up, or blank, slugs might be better handled more gracefully.

The view count is subtle but already gave me a grin !

I've seen other minimalist blogging platforms and I have to admit this one seems a little more responsive (speed-wise), and truly simple to use while retaining the basic feature set that's necessary for a functional blog.

I've opened an account and will test it out. Great work!

Doesn't look like the about and legal links work. (Edit: They work when logged out, but not when logged in.) I do like it, though... reminds me of when Diary-X was still around. I mourned the loss of that site. The simplicity of it all makes my brain happy.

Very nice looking setup. Easy to use (as advertised) and attractive by default. I love the simple look of it.

[edit]Since advice is not forthcoming, I'll add a suggestion instead. A forgot password link would be great on the login page.[/edit]

Oddly, though, I can't log back in. I created an account, made some pages, and signed out. When I try to log in with the email address I used, it correctly changes to my username, but then it says that the username is invalid. Any thoughts? http://d-rock.authpad.com.

Thanks for the feedback. The bug you reported is fixed. :) Try logging back in with your username or email.

Excellent, that works. Thanks.

It's pretty cool! But I've found a few bugs:

Code doesn't wrap, you can see the posts I did here:

http://doug.authpad.com/

The bottom post is using a codeblock, but it stretches out the pages.

Also, when I went to edit the page and updated it, it made a new post.

Thanks for the report. First bug is fixed. Quick question: does editing any page cause it to be reposted when you update?

Hey, sorry to get back to you so late. No, it actually didn't do it again when I replicated the issue. Maybe I hit the back button to edit it, and it reposted it?

This makes me think of when Tumblr was still a nice, stripped down platform for blogging, instead of Livejournal 2.

Very nice, I like. Performs real well on my phone (VZW stock GNexus) as well. I am really digging the simplicity and the combination of the typographical syntax and html within the textarea.

I wish I could think of some critiques, but I'm really at a loss right now.

Please use https for logins..

I like it. Nice and simple.

Is there any way to turn a timestamp off for a page? Also, is there/will there be an RSS feed for each blog? And I know it's early, but will you be adding domain name support?

Really cool. UX-wise, I think you're missing a message that says: "That username is already taken. If it's your account, please login."

When you hit 'preview' on your new post, the publish / draft buttons disappear in chrome on mac os x, leaving you to question your sanity.

It would be even better if we also can edit post when offline and publish it when online (like jekyll and octopress).

Thanks everyone for all the positive feedback. We really appreciate it!

Yeah it was sweet and easy if you just want to get some text up there.

Look great, this is actually something I've been looking for.

Pretty nice work, thanks for sharing. Markdown is the best.

Cool keyboard. I need to have a number in my username

Cool, any way to float images?

https will hopefully be added ;)

Yeah, nice.

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