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1. jorge

   · CEO at Escuela de Formación Técnica Chile SPA · about 5 years ago
   It is a nice mini-blog, it's for free and such but

   As a mini-blog, it is a nice alternative for Medium to publish and share information about programming.

   However, the community and the organization are biased toward social justice (and they are open to it). You can read its Code of Conduct, it is so vague and politically leads (I prefer a term of service because it defines fair rules for everybody). So it alienates developers that we don't care about politics in pro of people that want to talk about any other topic such as sexuality, how women are unprivileged, and such. It even mandates to use inclusive language. Good grief.

   My main complaint is the quality of the community. It is not StackOverflow (so we don't want to ask for an answer here), and most of the top topics are clickbait, such as "how to become a rockstar developer in ... days", "100 tips to become a better programmer" (and it doesn't even talk about programming).

   Technically this "mini blog" site allows us to use markdown, and it is okay. However, the whole experience is really basic. Even the template is ugly.

   🏁 Competitors: Medium

   👍 Pros:    Free

   👎 Cons:    Social justice|Basic features|Quality of content

Miniflux mentions (52)

• Reading RSS content is a skilled activity

  My problem with RSS is that I tend to subscribe to too many things and then it's too much. Also I wanted a solution that was free or self hosted, but I realized it's much better if someone manages the complexity for me, so I just ended up going with the paid hosting for miniflux (https://miniflux.app/). Now I've just subscribed to a few things I care about, I open the website from time to time, quickly mark as... - Source: Hacker News / 26 days ago

• Small Tech

  I'll add miniflux to the list. It's been my RSD aggregator for like 5~ years now: https://miniflux.app/. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Ask HN: Which RSS reader do you use?

  Self-hosted Miniflux, https://miniflux.app/ Super minimal, I have MANY feeds, and it just does the thing very well. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Ask HN: Which RSS reader do you use?

  Self-hosted Miniflux, and ReadKit on my Apple devices to access it. https://miniflux.app. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Convert Markdown files to RSS feed

  I have some like this http://rec.mro.name/podcasts/zuendfunk/broadcasts.atom (and .rss, too) which plays the audio nicely e.g. In https://miniflux.app but I remember having trouble with iTunes on MacOS and the Apple podcast iOS app. But his is mostly try-and-error and merely no specs. Apple doesn't talk about atom AFAIK. Racket is interesting, I'm into Ocaml, but create those feeds via... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

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