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   by yethiel 7mo ago

   Update: You can now browse through webrings and create your own! https://webrings.paperboat.website/
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   by yethiel 7mo ago

   Thank you! I like the ideas and will think about it. I'm working on a concept for webrings which can be used to discover new sites. They'll work like this: A webring consists of multiple sites. The oldest one comes first and newer
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   by yethiel 7mo ago

   Thank you! And I agree that it's technically not that impressive. Posting it here was very special for me. First of all, I got tons of valuable feedback and questions. It's also the first step in figuring out how big a role this
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   by yethiel 7mo ago

   Yeah, that's always the big question. You'll have to take my word for it. I spent many years in the Re-Volt community (racing game from the 90s). This is what lead me to become a programmer, made some of my best friendships and fo
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   by yethiel 7mo ago

   Good points! paperboat.website is very simple and focuses on friends sharing their blog posts which each other, which helps limit regular users' exposure to potential malicious activity. I expect it's going to be tricky if the use
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   by yethiel 7mo ago

   Thank you! bearblog was a huge inspiration for me. They have many similarities but the main differences are a block-based editor and a feed that shows the most recent posts of the blogs that you're following. I'm also trying to m
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   by yethiel 7mo ago

   Definitely a huge inspiration! For global discovery, I'm working on a webring-like feature. Unless users really want it, I'll steer clear of a global feed for now because I'd like users to discover other content more organica
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   by yethiel 7mo ago

   Thank you so much! The content will always be owned by the users. I'll never use their content commercially and I will also never sell the platform. The page content is stored as Markdown and I'm working on an export feature to e
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   by yethiel 7mo ago

   Thank you so much!
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    by yethiel 7mo ago

    Hi HN! My name is Marv and I made paperboat.website, a friendly platform for personal websites and blogs. I wanted to create a place for sharing interesting things with your friends and everyone else, without all the annoyances most of the
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    Show HN: I made paperboat.website, a platform for friends and creativity(paperboat.website)

    81 points by yethiel 7mo ago|31 comments
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    My Oldest File(marv.paperboat.website)

    3 points by yethiel 7mo ago|0 comments