Also: a StumbleUpon-like explore experience of pages created using mmm.page [3].
[1] https://twitter.com/xhfloz/status/1653740562648821760?s=46
[2] https://twitter.com/xhfloz/status/1631746024120221698?s=46
Both make me happy about the next evolutionary steps in the world wide web :)
As to charging an (optional) paid plan, unfortunately, I have been bootstrapping this full-time the past few years, and because I can’t till my own land anymore, have to find the least terrible way of exchanging labor for money, such that I can pay for food and bills.
That being said, there is a free tier for this very reason, as I remember all the free services that got me started initially. Hoping to make this tier more generous once the project is profitable.
Let me know if you have other ideas. If I can (a) pay for business costs (accounting, APIs, hosting, etc), (b) pay for my bills, (c) attain a and b w/ incentives that align with my users and the principles of the project — I am all ears.
Are you suggesting that they should be paid by the government - I.e. out of taxes?
Or are you simply saying if it’s part of the web, people should work on it for free - basically like open source? Even in this case, I don’t see where the money for infrastructure and power comes from.
Maybe I’m missing another alternative.
History tells me to never trust anything this well funded for something likely to be so personal. Perhaps theres a business case and good luck, but I'll be avoiding.
So if you enjoy the project, or want to support some of the researchy aspects of it, please consider upgrading!
I have another article in the works about the importance of independent funding models and slow growth incentives w/r/t organic social networks, and projects that necessarily require slow exploration as a community (not, in contrast, “spaces designed by committee”).
So how do you do that? I'm probably missing something very obvious here.
(But due to some iFrame hackiness, it doesn’t work in incognito.)
Also, why does mmm.page loads ~160 Google web fonts?
As for fonts — it’s unideal! Those initial fonts are actually just the glyphs subset of fonts so I can display their names in the font picker. It’s already somewhat cut down by separating the fonts into basic and all, as well as delaying the load a few seconds after initial load, but still a lot to fix up there.
The idea might be nice but without any mobile support (where a huge portion of the world is) it's impossible to tell whether it's good or not as we can't try it.
//edit okay it does work on mobile after reading other comments. Though the link on HN is wrong as I'm writing this: it points to a non-editable page.
Using a WYSIWYG editor is really useful for people who want to create content, not create an app.
PS: I am still in love with LaTeX--one of the only strongly-typed editors still standing the test of time.
