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We got a little more traffic as we are featured in this week’s Show HN!

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must be much more useful now finding discussions worth engaging.

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Tweaked the algorithm again. Old posts seemed to linger too much time at the top making the tab worthless. Now old posts accelerate their decline by age, and recent discussions bubble up faster.

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Activity targetted to you (reply, mention, follow) will remain in until you visit that page, so just visiting isn’t enough to mark it as read. It’s one extra click but this way you’ll never miss them. Still polishing that part.

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Let’s see how this with the @hn10 goes. If it becomes too annoying I’ll turn it off. For now, after the initial burst it looks like it’s become more quiet. You can always block it if you don’t like it.

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Any idea why I can access just fine when I am on my personal VPN, but when I try to access it from my home IP address or from a client's work VPN, I get an ERRCONNECTIONCLOSED?

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I would make the account settings (switch accounts screen) the same width as the account and profile. Right now it is pretty narrow.

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Perhaps controversial for , but now you can create multiple accounts under your account (aka personas) that you can use as regular accounts, each with their own profile. The same email is used and you can switch between them under .

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You can now also change the page density from depending on how much content you prefer having on the screen.

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You can now change the page size from so you have more to read before going to the next page.

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Spent an unusually long amount of time normalizing the underlines in this site to be consistent everywhere.

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, what the rationale behind the change on link and permalinks to notes, and tags, etc.?

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🤩 selector added in 🥳💪🔥 click and more to find it.

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Major on the / for desktop users, all handles and hashtags are now showing a popover on hover so you can quickly see the profile and hashtag information and follow them.

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Also, tag pages now have a tab followers so you can see the people following a tag you like and follow them.

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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.

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Your wishes have come true (well, almost) - you can now search for handles and hashtags while you are writing a note/reply - it will preserve what you've written so far and you can find what you're looking for!

@fastidious🙈profileenter to follow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." — Sid Meyerscontinued:
Err, @stagasprofileenter to followcreative technologist creator of textlog (not having autocomplete, I am surprised I haven’t made this mistake before!)
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Testing support. # Heading 1 ## Heading 2 ## Heading 3 #### Heading 4 ##### Heading 5 italics bold ~~strikethrough~~

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What’s the maximum character number per handle?

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I think the this sort of feels like relaxed IRC. I am very much appreciating text only and not feeling like I need to stay glued to a feed.

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Noticing how very few fix: in the textlog repo. Codex is a much better developer than me. I’m now a project manager I guess.

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Pagination is now in all feeds, and the pagination's current page button is a actually a number input that so you can quickly type or use the arrow up/down keys or mouse wheel to jump to deep page.

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If you haven't seen them, there are now back links in post and reply pages, making it easy to jump to your previous location, without using the browser's back button which sometimes has issues (after submitting forms etc.).

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We're currently no.50 on ! Out of 788 submissions.

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What plans are there to avoid ?

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Are there any plans to filter by language? What will happen when people start posting in several languages?

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I tried to post a reply but something happened and it got lost. Maybe server refresh? Had to re-type it :)

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the minus “button” to collapse long threads is tiny on mobile. Most often than not I open the message that I want to collapse. Maybe add a bit of padding (for size) and negative margin (for position) in CSS.

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Will keep posting updates on as I go. Not ready yet. Just starting serious. Ton of research and quite a bit of proof of concepts for various stages.

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Call me interested. Got a link to share?
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request - an option to show only "top-level posts" (idk what terminology to use here) on a user page, because this gives you a more focused sense of what that person is interested in, whereas with replies included it's kindof all-over-the-place.

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We've launched on ! Upvote everyone :D

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Improving textlog of course. There are a ton of tiny and some not so tiny / improvements waiting tbd. Question is which ones now?

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Morning! What's on the docket today?
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All the activity related to you and the people/tags you follow are now contained in now. If you want to filter just activity targetted to you specifically, you click in that tab. Simple, clean.

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Should we consolidate and ? Basically get rid of activity and just put all in for you? Now the semantic difference is activity you can scan for direct interactions with you, where for you has also random public posts.

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Excluding own notes in — it’s cleaner this way and you can find your own notes under your profile anyways.

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'ing on in 10 hours - let's see if we can get some traffic from there!

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The page became even more interesting - you will now see an unread entries status dot and highlighted items similar to the page! So you don't miss a thing.

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Tweaked the algorithm again — now it looks really nice! All the engaging posts of the past days rank in the first page.

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became a bit more interesting - You will see tags and people that people you follow start following, and people that follow tags you are following. Will help finding new tags and people to follow. You can also enable these in the notifications.

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has entered the timeline:

E = m c^{2}

And when things get serious:

\int_{- \infty}^{\infty} e^{- x^{2}} d x = \sqrt{π}

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Added for SendGrid and Google SMTP. Cloudflare required a Worker adapter, so it wasn't straightforward. If we need more we can add in the future!

@fastidious🙈profileenter to follow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." — Sid Meyersreplied to@stagasprofileenter to followcreative technologist GitHubstagas - Overviewstagas has 462 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub. creator of textlog:
I am asking on whether is not it can be made vendor agnostic, so people can use Cloudflare, or Sendgrid.
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Made some more improvements to self-hosting textlog - all of the instance-specific variables now live in .env and an instance.config.ts - so you'd just have to clone, set/change these, give a name to your textlog, and you're good to go.

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Search now has tabs for notes, tags and people matches

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Markdown inline code and code fences are supported now, in a minimalistic unobtrusive way. Enjoy!

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I wonder if textlog would support a longer-lived token for CI/CD so I could share certain ‘micro’ blog posts from my site here automatically?

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Having difficulty visiting textlog.cc from the Firefox browser. I receive an error: An error occurred during a connection to textlog.cc SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length.

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Possible to make the email portion a bit less vendor agnostic? For those of us using Sendgrid, or Cloudflare for transactional emails, that is.

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You can now enable notifications on your phone and desktop so you don't miss anything!

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wow, the new themes are awesome! especially the ability to set the accent is just yummy. Dracula and Orange it is!

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there is a certain kind of anxiety karma points and like counts cause me that i can't really put my finger on it - something near the stomach - which is why this site has none of that and plan to remain that way.

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im noticing something similar after adding to my feed. I much prefer the idea of simply logging occasionally, posting something, checking for replies, and then logging out. The notification feels out of place with the entire concept of this place

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the first hot take hit the

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Implemented a db /dump.zip - it contains all the data needed if you want to reconstruct a frozen view of the entire site - but without exposing any sensitive information. It updates daily and should address some of the concerns regarding being a "silo".

@fastidious🙈profileenter to follow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." — Sid Meyersreplied to@stagasprofileenter to followcreative technologist GitHubstagas - Overviewstagas has 462 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub. creator of textlog:
Yeah, federated, exactly. Centralised has some charm, but it is a silo, and a single point of failure.
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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

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I was thinking… will it be possible to make textlog decentralised? Keeping the same functionality, but allow self-hosters to interact with other self-hosters, that is.

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you can now pick a font that's already installed in your system under !

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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.

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Implemented iframe embeds - you can now add a widget to your site/blog/blog posts pulling some of the feeds or posts. See

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, “activity” needs some love. It is rather busy.

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This website is what William Gibson would call an "interstitial zone" - it can afford to be easy and open because it's so obscure. If it starts throwing up Cloudflare captchas we'll know its days are numbered...

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No password?

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Password login implemented, can be enabled from cc

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Big for the flutter app. Writes are now native! Frontend post filters, account details, etc. Eager to hear what you guys think to iron out inevitable quirks.

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I love fixing all those tiny / details that nobody notices but me.

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Full-text search implemented under and !

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Idea, replace the “Followed you” and “Replied to you” with minimal icons. That page has way too many lines.

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I did make a for API writes. I understand its controversial, though quite necessary for any client to be built around . Curious to see if it lands (my flutter app is dying to consume it lmfao)

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How long before browser extensions appear to add interactivity? I struggle to remember handles to reply or exact hash-tags. No js is very limiting, let’s see when you give up ;-)

@stagas🤸profileenter to followcreative technologist GitHubstagas - Overviewstagas has 462 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub. creator of textlogreplied to@thelocehiliosanprofileenter to followrecent project: Plate Pursuit:
Right now all of it counts against the limit because the textarea has a hard character limit and there is no way without using JS to change this.
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I just saw that textlog has almost similar logo like termux. I happened to run these two side by side and then It came into my notice. But it’s apt for it. I’ll try making some for it.

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A CLI would ve good for this

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I think one thing could be done in post text-area, that hashtags and mentions should be suggested if user types ‘#’ or ‘@’ and then starts typing. Although I know this would be already in the list. Right 8)

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would be cute if users could customize color schemes!

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can we get a keyboard shortcut to post if there isnt already one? like ctrl shift enter or similar

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now has session caching for replies and threads. Should be a lot more conservative on hitting those endpoints.

@stagas🤸profileenter to followcreative technologist GitHubstagas - Overviewstagas has 462 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub. creator of textlogreplied to@paratonerprofileenter to follow:
hey @paratonerprofileenter to follow I see a lot of spamming on the /posts/NNN/replies endpoints in the logs, are these intentional? They might cause rate-limiting.
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Maybe frontend clients can be left to implement more of these nice-to-haves to cater to specific audiences. That's also why I started building a flutter client for .

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Maybe implementing a subset of Markdown would be a good thing. I am thinking about bold, italics, inline code, and code block, mostly. Oh, and links.
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client new version ! Optional core Markdown support, simple themes, read-only profile display support. Next I would like to try and get the app on the Play Store for convenience.

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How deep can replies go nested?

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if you are reading this, please share the site on your socials and with friends! lets keep this place growing

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Made a flutter client (very early prototype) for this platform I want to collect some early feedback hopefully and build a meaningful mobile cliënt for tlog!

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testing markdown links test

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Self hosting this might be fun

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Day 2 of the - some stats so far: 252 users, 420 notes, 237 replies, 35546 unique visitors

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I'm considering implementing authentication & POST mutations for the API but I'm worried this will invite programmatic/AI spam/slop or at least make it way easier than it is now.

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I registered with a temporary email, so maybe after going offline and coming back, I won’t be able to get my account back.

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How do you propose to introduce a character counter without a JavaScript dependency?

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The interface needs some work. For example, I would like the textarea that I am using right now to be as wide as the header above. Also, where is the character counter?
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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.

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Is textlog federated? I suspect it isn’t.

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the color palette here is terrible 😞

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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.

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Hmm interesting approach, no passwords here. Does that mean this account is gone forever once I clear my browser cache

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This seems like such a cool place!

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Hay there lads, this is my first entry. Don't know what I am doing here but looks cool and fun

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Nice one Was it a good experience to build this thing? (sometimes projects are fun to build and sometime not i find)

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This looks great, congrats on the ! :) and welcome to

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