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307 sats \ 8 replies \ @SimpleStacker 12 Nov \ on: Where would you publish a new bitcoin-centric blog? AskSN
Github Pages + SN
Both use markdown natively so it will be very easy to post on both simultaneously
My dream is for SN to have a widget I can plug into any web page to power a comments section of a post, and the post is automatically visible on SN as well, and comments coming from both SN and my own web page can be seen on both sites
I second doing it on SN, at least for the first few months to see if you get traction.
I've done blogs with wordpress, blogspot, and medium before, and the biggest problem is always discovery. Hosting your blog on SN gives you a bit of visibility to start with. There are lots of people here who would engage with your posts and perhaps you could enlist them as your marketing force (sharing on nostr, X, reddit, so on) -- you could even offer bounties for sharing.
The easiest, lowest cost way to do it might be to publish in ~bitcoin_beginners and just put a little tag at the beginning of your posts (eg.
[FM] is what ended up working for the fiction month contest).If you really wanted to force yourself to commit to the writing, you could pay for your own territory.
I know that @sox is working on a editor that is going to allow a lot more control over how posts look and there is also the idea that SN territories could one day be hosted at your own custom domain.
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I'm still very excited about custom domains. They're the fastest way for someone to create their own blog, while benefiting from an already established user base.
and also moderation via bitcoin.
The editor is a gamble on users' creativity. We're going to give people writing freedom (with some very understandable limitations), let's see how it goes lol
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Well this sounds exciting and promising. Go go go! We are waiting.
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It sounds pretty hard in every sense ahah
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Awesome suggestions, thank you!
This in particular:
SN, at least for the first few months to see if you get traction.
Seems like a low risk way to test the waters.
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a widget I can plug into any web page to power a comments section of a post
We talked about this so many times, and I personally love this idea. Might create an issue on GitHub 👀
but like no commitment (lol), while the idea is really good, I suspect we would cross a lot of obstacles
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Github Pages + SN
Ah, I wasn't aware yet that GH pages support native md.
Only used it for statically generated pages (html) in the past.
That's an interesting idea.
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