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Re:Blot turns a folder into a website on Saturday December 30, 2023 @03:28AM (#38813674)
It's intentionally public. The news page is generated from todo.txt and my git commit messages:

https://blot.im/news

Re:Blot turns a folder into a website on Saturday December 30, 2023 @02:11AM (#38813366)
Is it possible that you are in India and affected by recurring billing regulations? Email us and we'll get you up and running:

https://blot.im/contact

Re:Blot turns a folder into a website on Saturday December 30, 2023 @02:01AM (#38813323)
Fair point – I have just added:

https://blot.im/pricing

Re:Blot turns a folder into a website on Friday December 29, 2023 @04:14PM (#38810272)
I announced Blot on Hacker News almost 10 years ago. Thank you all for helping to get it started. It was a nice surprise to see it posted again here today.

The goal of Blot is to bring the benefits of the static site generator to people who haven't heard of static site generators

Re:Blot turns a folder into a website on Friday December 29, 2023 @04:05PM (#38810168)
Thanks for contributing – Rakhim created the 'questions' forum:

https://blot.im/questions

Re:Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @02:22AM (#23319947)
It’s close to being conveniently self-hostable:

https://github.com/davidmerfield/Blot

Re:It's too late to collect sand on Thursday January 23, 2020 @05:14PM (#22132838)
The timeout for the requests issued by the uptime monitor was set a little too low – the uptime monitor mistakenly believed the service was not responding (it was, but slowly)
Re:It's too late to collect sand on Thursday January 23, 2020 @04:40PM (#22132466)
I'm responsible for hosting the website (I'm not the author of the post). Just wanted to say sorry for the outage. Issue was triggered by an aggressive uptime monitor which was freaking out at some slower-than-usual response times mid-HN-hug. Will tweak the uptime monitor
Facebook’s response to this story is revealing:

> "We’re not going to debate the disgruntled litigants and anonymous sources who seek to rewrite Facebook’s early history or embarrass Mark Zuckerberg with dated allegations. The unquestioned fact is that since leaving Harvard for Silicon Valley nearly six years ago, Mark has led Facebook's growth from a college website to a global service playing an important role in the lives of over 400 million people."

You get a similar argument in the recently leaked ‘Boz memo’: please ignore our unethical behavior, instead focus on how many users we have. Growth at any cost is justified.