Wow, I'd never looked at this before but there's some interesting stuff popping up in there. I think people believe Pastebin is more private than it actually is because in the 30 seconds I scanned through, I saw a Data Dump on a small E-commerce website and some other interesting stuff...
Cool concept and nifty execution. It is still only pseudo-anonymous, because you need a personal URL for the repo-file. Open-source it, add some basic federation, and you have what Diaspora should have been from the start.
In a sense, you already have, by requiring the content to be hosted elsewhere and releasing the pulling code. There is beauty in simple tools like this one. Kudos.
maybe just adding a basic feed aggregator, so that you can easily see your friends' updates, pulling in their disqus comment threads (I have no idea whether this is feasible, i've never implemented disqus).
Interesting, I've had a similar idea, but different: you download a command line tool and publish your local .md (markdown) files with it under some name, like:
$ p register <username>
$ vim content.md
$ p publish <content>.md # gets published under <username>.domain.com/<content>
I didn't know if people would find this useful, but judging from reactions to this, it looks like there might be a market for it
I think the point is that you write your content in Markdown, the structure of your site in JSON, and this generates and serve HTML with a decent CSS. Interesting for programmers who want to quickly publish content without bothering with presentation. It's like Jekyll or Nanoc for busy (or lazy) people.
It would help if the site mentioned this. It reminds me of an old analysis of the Mozilla website where, upon launching, it showed a full screenview that preached the gospel of Open Source Software to the visitor instead of providing the user with a link to the Firefox browser.
You have to provide some context to visitors, like maybe those who are not coming from HN.
This is really cool. Really quick to get started. It would be awesome to have an option for custom DNS ! This looks like a cool way to have a bootstrapped front-end for a few things I have in mind.
perhaps one could categorize pages, eg, I mentioned something here about creating a UIpalette http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3060902 - could you pivot around that? Make the site a destination to find new content.
just create them on-the-fly as submitted. The problem will be spam, I would have an API key that's created upon captcha signup that's attached to a submission, and opens up new capabilities. Maybe too complicated.
Ideally I could create a plugin, that would load a new random page from category UI after every press, then at the top of the browser would display some metadata attached to a page, like a "further info" link.
Perhaps you could create a category tree that users populate, and then allow random tags to associate -- like YT videos - choose a category but then attach madeup tags - that would be best.
I'm on Chrome 13 and yes, I see all characters too, but Ż, ž, č, ą and ę are displayed in a fall-back sans-serif font. All others using Istok Web, as defined in the CSS. It doesn't look good.
I've had something like this for years as my personal cms. Lately I've seen a lot of valuable content hosted on closed platforms like g+ or even facebook and it makes me kinda sad - the people are willingly gifting their content away. If these companies decide you are no longer valuable to them (real name debate, anyone?) you may loose all of your stuff.
If hackerhub goes offline tomorrow, every user will still have their content.
