I’m sorry about the unsolicited email, but we really have done so much since that it warranted a recap, you can of course turn them off either from the email unsubscribe link or from your account settings. I promise to keep these very very sparse.
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"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." — Sid Meyersreplied to@stagas🤸profilefollow
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creator of textlog:
"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." — Sid Meyersreplied to@stagas🤸profilefollowcreative technologist
creator of textlog:Don't worry, it went to junk. 😅
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creator of textlogreplied to@fastidiousprofilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." — Sid Meyers:
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creator of textlogreplied to@fastidiousprofilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." — Sid Meyers:Haha, as always 🤣
No apology necessary. Seems like a legitimately useful update and a worthwhile nudge to reengage folks.
Mine went to the junk folder as well. I marked it as "not spam" FWIW, but I don't know if that actually does anything...
I’m running out of ideas what else to do and asking to suggest me / improvements. A lot of its suggestions are good but a lot are banal as well.
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and I thought the site was finished and I had nothing else to add when I 'ed it. How naive. I've done so much work since then and every day is full of issues to work on.
Ran out of issues to work on, again. I hate it when this happens. Moving too fast with has this disadvantage, no time to think ahead. Any ideas?
Something that came up recently was a css only implementation of showing when we have hit the character max count before you click submit. Unlike the JavaScript implementation which can show you a dynamic count, this cannot but it is cool and is lightweight
It’s impossible with css I’ve investigated.
Here is a demo I put together with Claude
kus1987.neocities.org/nojsdemo
Thanks! I used the auto-grow
field-sizing trick! Works well. The other trick has issues with prefilled textareas, so it fails in bio textarea and when editing a post/preview/draft. Also I was talking about counting the characters or showing some sort of progress bar, that’s impossible as well. The <textarea> maxlength hard limit is fine. With the new 500 char limit you’d hardly notice it as well.We've launched on ! Upvote everyone :D
pondering how are we going to grow when we don't have engagement-loop trickery mechanisms, but at the same time, that's the entire premise. It's going to be tough, hopefully some influencer out there picks up on this site and promotes it themselves ;p
@fastidiousprofilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." — Sid Meyersreplied to@stagas🤸profilefollowcreative technologist
creator of textlog:
"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." — Sid Meyersreplied to@stagas🤸profilefollowcreative technologist
creator of textlog:Organically. Also not growing isn’t a bad thing. Was the aim to be huge? I have witnessed that smaller communities last longer, and work better. Knowing the people you interact with is a perk.
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creator of textlogreplied to@fastidiousprofilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." — Sid Meyers:
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creator of textlogreplied to@fastidiousprofilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." — Sid Meyers:Not huge -since it won't appeal to many- but at least 2 orders of magnitude bigger is the aim. With ~30-50k users I would be extremely happy.
Day 4 of - growth has stagnated, but we're already a good bunch! I've made the public for transparency instead of posting them here manually, you can take a look! No sensitive information there. It was a good launch.
day went really well! near 200 signups, HN front page, no.1 on Show HN currently. Really excited and can't wait to see if it will get more traction in the coming days. I'd really like having a place like this to share my thoughts throughout the day.
really nice idea! It’d be nice, if there would be a “thanks” button to show appreciation for a post. But nothing that counts up, and surely nothing visible. more like a notification to the user Ann that user Bob found this useful.
Thanks! Just write a small reply! A thoughtful comment is better than a simple gesture. It is also an experiment to see how far we can go without them, aside from keeping the feed "quiet".