Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS

This is really neat!

The main thing that stood out to me was, unlike many other micro/minimalist blogging platforms, textlog has individual notes (as opposed to blogs) as the primary unit. I feel that this choice often makes it psychologically easier for users to post something quickly without getting stuck on managing their blog’s brand and identity. Nothing wrong with the latter, but it comes with a trade-off.

And I really like the visual design: very clean and minimalistic, but also pleasant.

I like this project. Simple, open-source, nice UI.

Im having trouble getting to the site when using quad9 dns. Site works fine when using cloudflare dns though.

Yes! I've always said twitter was better before images/multimedia!

I recently started a section on my personal site for absolutely minimal and simple microblogging that I could Ctrl-F through: https://knlb.dev/scribbles/ -- I should probably give this a shot.

Signed up, will use it. Having trouble seeing how long this will actually exist though, because people are miserable and it WILL be ruined.

I really like this approach. I wonder if it needs such complexity for the rendering. Could you have built this as a SSG template?

Reminds me of org-social (https://github.com/tanrax/org-social)

> Notes are limited to 280 characters. The constraint keeps them quick to write and read, making room for one thought at a time.

No thanks.

The 280 char limit seems arbitrary, given you cant even keep the about page within that limit: https://textlog.cc/about

If you are going to limit it to short posts, maybe the length of a short post is the length to limit it to, rather than emulating the 2xSMS of every twitter clone?

Other than that, it looks really clean and neat - I just dont think being 280 chars adds anything other than resulting in people posting with pagination as per X 1/3.

I built something for a similar goal, make it easy for someone to start their blog. But instead it's a static website, clone the repo, adjust the config.ts, write the posts in markdown, host anywhere: https://starter.bryanhogan.com/

I'm a certified dark mode hater, so in that light, that's a no-go for me: there seems to be no way to change the theme.

Should do the same but for 4chan.

reminds me of https://bearblog.dev/

i'm experiencing a weird scenario. all time is asking me for a magic link :( I click on that link and again the same screen, ask for a magic link (said the old one expired). It may be our mimecast blocking something?

See also https://github.com/buckket/twtxt

https://indieweb.org/twtxt

Thanks for the write-up

twitter reborn

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