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Looks very nice. I'd actually consider using this.

Questions:

* I like that you support tags. How do you browse tags?

* Customizable URL slugs: so if I want to date my archive URLs I have to manually type in '/archive/2013/10/07/slug' each time? Is there any way to template the archive URLs?

* How does your archive page scale when you have thousands of posts? https://dsowers.silvrback.com/archive

* As others have mentioned, I'd really prefer a free trial than shell out money (I understand it's not much) and feel like I wasted it if I poke around for a few minutes and find it's not for me.

* I had a question about exporting data but someone already asked it :)

* "Your homepage... will show the latest three posts in full." Is this customizable? I often have a bunch of short posts that mostly serve to keep track of stuff I read and find it later. I'd rather show the last, say, week's worth of content instead of a fixed number of posts.

* Full text search?

I'm getting a lot of feature requests. So I have to pick and choose. You have some good questions.

The tags are there to give the reader extra meaning about the article. For example, you could tell someone to read an article first in the tag. However, I believe I will offer a way to filter by tags soon. This wasn't their primary purpose, though. They aren't like stack overflow tags. They are more like post-it-notes to guide your readers.

If you don't want to use the auto-generated friendly slug that Silvrback makes for your article, then you would have to edit it to your liking in "advanced post settings." I don't want this to be bloated with features so I don't have a 'slug template' save option. 98% of my users wouldn't need this option. Sorry :)

With thousands of posts the page will be paginated. I'm actually still implementing this. Should be ready soon.

If you do buy a subscription and don't like it, just email me and I will refund you.

I'm still playing around with ideas for users to customize their homepage more. Might give the option to show fixed posts or custom date range.

I want to have my blog on a custom domain name... How do I set up my DNS to point at your system?

Just click on "custom domain" in settings and it has instructions for you. If you need extra help, just send me an email.

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