Excuse me, but speaking as a WriteFreely supporter I don't understand which features it supports that WriteFreely doesn't, why it wouldn't support some, or how it could be better organized or governed (in terms of monetization, relationship to the community, etc.) than my blogging platform of choice (respectively my own idea of the technical, cultural, and institutional layers of free software development).
I'm not saying this to dismiss this new blogging solution, I don't know the answers yet.
I mean to say however that in order not to EEE WriteFreely or get its own revenue drained by the WriteFreely niche, it would need (at first glance) to reach new niches, to provide a different (or more specific) features set, and/or to provide different workflows, that could be tailored for more specific target audiences.
As a reminder, WriteFreely supports both email publishing, a Ghost integration, and a publishing API that's already integrated into several IDEs like Emacs, which is what I'm using as a daily driver, so I wonder how not supporting them could improve the UX. (I'm sure it could, I just wonder how and I'd be delighted to see improvements in the minimal blogging landscape.) Similarly, Mataora provides an API with a necessity-made-virtue focus on minimalism.
I'm a big fan of Write Freely. I love what Matt is doing for the open web. I can't see Pagecord competing with it any time soon, but who knows.
I built Pagecord as a side project using Ruby for myself, and as an alternative to HEY World for people who don't use HEY. I wanted to include features I missed in HEY World such as media embeds and custom domains. As I got customers, I decided to open source it as a way of better guaranteeing longevity of the platform should I fall under a bus.
The goal of it is really to offer a way to (micro)blog as effortlessly as possible, as well as allowing people to _follow_ a Pagecord blog as simply as possible. I'm just about to launch email subscriptions for that (it's in beta), and all blogs supports RSS of course. Off the back of this I actually built an RSS reader to try and make it easier for people to get started with RSS too :) https://feedgrab.net
I'm not saying this to dismiss this new blogging solution, I don't know the answers yet.
I mean to say however that in order not to EEE WriteFreely or get its own revenue drained by the WriteFreely niche, it would need (at first glance) to reach new niches, to provide a different (or more specific) features set, and/or to provide different workflows, that could be tailored for more specific target audiences.
As a reminder, WriteFreely supports both email publishing, a Ghost integration, and a publishing API that's already integrated into several IDEs like Emacs, which is what I'm using as a daily driver, so I wonder how not supporting them could improve the UX. (I'm sure it could, I just wonder how and I'd be delighted to see improvements in the minimal blogging landscape.) Similarly, Mataora provides an API with a necessity-made-virtue focus on minimalism.
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