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webdevlion··on Leak uncovers global abuse of cyber-surveillance weapon
Ironic that you mention this, since the fact that the Modi government’s name is on the list attests to their anti-privacy way of ruling.
webdevlion··on Show HN: A simple blogging platform I built out of frustration with other tools
Perfect! You have given me enough information to get started.

Thank you! And all the best for DynaBlogger!! :)

webdevlion··on Show HN: A simple blogging platform I built out of frustration with other tools
Thank you so much for the information!

Did you implement the email feature in DynaBlogger from scratch?

I have been on the look-out for open-source projects that do email-as-a-CMS for a long time. I build websites and blogs for companies and individuals, and any CMS that I include (other than self-hosted Ghost) is very harsh on the content teams of these companies.

They are non-technical people who don't understand frontmatter and markdown. Email looks like the perfect publishing medium for this demographic.

Can you give me some direction on how I can build myself an email-CMS solution similar to what you have implemented in DybaBlogger? Thanks!

webdevlion··on Show HN: A simple blogging platform I built out of frustration with other tools
Hi, congrats on launching! I can see that this project will be giving quite a few companies a run for their money!

I was curious about your email-as-a-CMS solution. How does it work? Did you take inspiration from an existing project that does this?

I am aware of how Amazon uses something similar to allow people to email PDFs to their Kindle devices. But I am very interested in how you got your solution to work.

Cheers! And thank you!

webdevlion··on Creating a minimalist blog with Jekyll Now
Awesome! So 'telegra.ph' allows anyone to post a richly-formatted HTTPS site right from Telegram. Neat!

It should be fairly simple from here, to display contents of said HTTPS site on their own blog or website, so that they can write and edit their site directly from Telegram.

This is exactly what I imagined when I thought of Telegram-as-a-CMS. Thanks!

webdevlion··on Creating a minimalist blog with Jekyll Now
Great write-up. You're absolutely right, without having the protocols required to achieve this already in place, much of the web wouldn't exist today.

I think right now, we will all have to wait for the system that ends all present microblogging platforms. And with what we are seeing right now, this solution must be decentralised, censorship-free, and non-selective with who can participate, for the billions of internet users to even consider switching away from FB, Twitter, and the like.

webdevlion··on Creating a minimalist blog with Jekyll Now
Telepost (which I just found out about from you) would be too expensive an option for a microblogging usecase, in my opinion.

Nevertheless, it is proof that something like that could work, although it would require large infrastructure cost today. Thanks for the links!

webdevlion··on Creating a minimalist blog with Jekyll Now
Great find, thanks for this!
webdevlion··on Creating a minimalist blog with Jekyll Now
This makes me think, a Telegram-bot-as-a-CMS would work great for micro blogging.