@sheogorath Thanks. We already have a volunteer to host a Ghost instance. The discussion is in https://github.com/liberapay/salon/issues/136

@Gargron @ekaitz_zarraga @Technowix@niu.moe

> Your Medium account is in violation of our policies and is in danger of being suspended. Please review our policy for crypto accounts and posts on Medium: https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000646167

We don't even write about cryptocurrencies at all…

@Liberapay @Gargron @Technowix Third party stuff...

Why not use Wordpress or something like that?

@ekaitz_zarraga @Technowix @Gargron @Liberapay no one should be subjected to wordpress, better solution: static blog with pelican.

@jeff Yeah, whatever.

I have a wordpress thing and it just works. In the case of liberapay people it's ok for them to use Pelican, but I don't think it's a real solution for *everyone*.

Anyway, I agree with you in the 95%.

@ekaitz_zarraga just as long as it's managed by people who have time to clean up any shells that get dropped on the server, in the case of self hosted wordpress it is very unlikely to happen for "most people".

@jeff It's easy to have a wordpress. I know many places which sell VPS's for wordpress.

@ekaitz_zarraga wordpress.com has great wordpress hosting, as long as you don't install loads of pluggins and someone else manages the security it's sufficient, much less of a pain to run a static file blog via something like github pages.

@jeff Yeah, why does it look like we are discussing if we agree?
:D

@ekaitz_zarraga DISCUSSION IS FUN :DDDDDD

@jeff
I've been messing around with Hugo recently. Pretty nice.
@ekaitz_zarraga

@jeff @ekaitz_zarraga @Liberapay I'd recommend a static site generator. No comments or search, but no one's gonna use a WordPress vulnerability to hack the site.

(You can even do a WordPress-based static site; I know the version packaged for Sandstorm supports this, but I haven't tried it.)

@varx

ISTR that WordPress has a plugin that will generate a static site.

@jeff @ekaitz_zarraga @Liberapay

@suetanvil @Liberapay @ekaitz_zarraga @jeff @varx I'd go with Contentful & static parsing. You get CMS UI & you get your data as you please.

@Liberapay @Gargron @Technowix The best answer in cases like that is (imo):

- I'm not talking about crypto but, you know what? Fuck you. Delete the account. I don't give a shit. I'm moving out of here.

@Liberapay

you should contact Medium about that issue: https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/216287508

on a second thought they may grant your account back

@Liberapay @Gargron @ekaitz_zarraga @Technowix Ghost is pretty cheap to use their service IIRC

@Liberapay @Technowix @ekaitz_zarraga @gargron you're not a "company announcing ICOs, coins or tokens" ???? wtf

@1iceloops123 @liberapay

:Steemit is a blogging and social networking website that uses its Steem blockchain-based rewards platform for publishers. The Steem blockchain produces Steem and Steem Dollars which are magic bean tokens ..." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steemit

Better spray some "scam-away" because this one sounds like it either is one or will be taken over by one.

@maho @Liberapay The only reasons to use Medium are 1) pretty composer, 2) good CSS for legibility, 3) social network edfects from being tacked onto Twitter.

Assuming you find a better solution for #1 and maybe #2, you can just syndicate your articles to Medium.

@trwnh @Liberapay

Sounds like 1 is just a question of using a nice Markdown / WIYSIWIG-plugin, 2 comes down to a website theme ... that leaves point 3 which I can understand is a non-easily-replaceable feature.

@maho @Liberapay iirc, Medium uses limited HTML and not Markdown, but it has an article importer. Syndicating to multiple websites and silos is not too hard, with IFTTT or other scripts

@trwnh @Liberapay

I'm aware of that. Does not mean a homebrew solution can't be superior 😉

@maho @Liberapay Yes, I think there are many Wordpress plugins and at least one Jekyll plugin. Medium also has a posts API: https://indieweb.org/POSSE#Medium

@arjenpdevries Yes, the Internet Archive has copies, e.g. https://web.archive.org/web/20180205073332/https://medium.com/@liberapay/the-second-year-of-liberapay-c017b73c9721

@Liberapay so what did you do to offend them? (Are they worried about their claps?)

@bob @liberapay Reach.  The network effect is a powerful thing and audience for your articles is important to many.

@maiyannah @Liberapay @bob Also, I guess, wp.com became too mainstream a while ago. Some people tend to look for the next "new cool thing" to be there when this happens.

@azzamsa This is water under the bridge now. Our blog being unavailable for a little while was an insignificant inconvenience compared to the Mangopay fiasco of the summer.