NicoleTropea wrote: [stuff that's actually on topic, as opposed to JoeyM's drivel]
^^I had missed your posts in the other thread. Since you're practically GRM family, I thought I'd say welcome aboard.
NicoleTropea wrote: [stuff that's actually on topic, as opposed to JoeyM's drivel]
^^I had missed your posts in the other thread. Since you're practically GRM family, I thought I'd say welcome aboard.
Thanks!
It's like there are developers out there than can read my mind:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/johnonolan/ghost-just-a-blogging-platform
ghost said: An open source blogging platform which makes writing pleasurable and publishing simple.
Still a ways away, but I'll probably "kick" some in on that. I can always migrate over from wordpress.
A client of mine is an internationally bestselling author. She posts on her blog a couple of times per week, has been blogging for six years, and gets maybe three comments per post, if that. We use Disqus on her site to keep spam down, but it's another thing that requires administration. For example, they changed their service some months back to start showing cough relevant cough ads in comment sections. You could turn it off, but it was an unpleasant surprise. She gets TONS more interaction and activity on Facebook.
To expand on my last suggestion - leave comments on your site off permanently and use your other online presences to build community. Post a broad excerpt of a 'build' post here on GRM, then on your site encourage people to comment over here. Or, create a Facebook page for your blog and let people comment on the Facebook page. Ask people to connect with you on Twitter.
Many, many sites have very little comment traffic. GRM, C&D, R&T, and more get very few comments on their posts, and those sites are gigantic compared to what you'll be doing. (Sorry if that sounds harsh. Not my intent at all.) With the rise of social media, dealing with blog comments and comment spam just isn't worth it anymore, imo.
ghost is going to have a hard time with traction, given that people want their stinking buttons despite the fact that markdown is so much more powerful and stupidly easy to use. By the way, there's a markdown syntax guide built-in here: look above the post preview and select the dropdown.
It is interesting though.
Agreed, that will cause problems for it. The text formatting annoyances are the same ones I run into here. If the buttons here applied the format to the selected text instead of wiping the text out and replacing it with the formatting code, it would be 10x easier to use.
I don't know why, but when I am composing a post, I like to go back at the end and format stuff, not type the code in as I go.
ProDarwin, that was near the top of my to-do list near the end of my time at GRM, and was done to subsequent versions of the board. So I don't disagree with you.
I will say, though, markdown is so simple, it's easier to just skip the buttons. Of course, it's a lot easier to tell you that than for a blog engine to say it.
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