@jarrod yeah, that’s a good idea actually. It’s more of an app behaviour, I think, but I can see users wanting to just make the blog follow the readers’ preference.
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@simonbc Looks very different from yours @dave but your blogroll was actually the main inspiration when I designed one for Tinypost. I love that it’s dynamic, that it updates based on what people are writing and includes the latest post. Is it a feed reader or a blogroll? :)
@tylerknowsnothing Good question. Jottit is a faithful revival of the 2007 tool I built with Aaron Swartz – intentionally minimal, markdown, no sign-up required, pages you can optionally collect on a profile. Tinypost is targeted towards more traditional blogging: WYSIWYG editor, images, email subscriptions, blogroll, social links. Think of Jottit as “publish a page in seconds” and Tinypost as “run a simple blog you actually own.” They share DNA but serve different needs.
@jarrod Thanks! Interesting idea. I think I want to keep the background (and the whole app, actually) clean for now, but I could see something like that working as an optional theme down the road.
@jarrod Yeah, I definitely hear you. Subdomains signal “this is a site”, which is why I switched to @usernames, but they also feel more personal and less “platform”. I might bring back subdomains as an option down the road for users who want to make a site out of their profile page.