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    1. 01

      从全量里捞

      读取 Hacker News 自 2006 年以来的全部帖子,用关键词先捞出 40 分以上、可能和写作有关的约 1.1 万篇。

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      只留真正讲写作的

      由 AI 逐条判断是否和写作、讲故事、文风、出版有实质关系,剔除“写代码”“编辑器”这类字面撞车,并分进十个类别。

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      提炼可用的要点

      为值得读的帖子写中文导读,提炼 2-4 条可以直接用到自己写作里的要点,并精选翻译 HN 高赞评论。内容由 AI 生成,可能有误。

    博客与个人写作2021multiverse.plus

    Show HN:Multiverse.plus——如果博客更像拼贴画、更缤纷一些

    Show HN: Multiverse.plus – what if blogging was more collage-like and colorful?

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    这是一款叫 Multiverse.plus 的博客工具,作者嫌现在的网页都成了「带一点蓝的灰」(gwalb),想把博客重新做成漫画或幻灯片那样的视觉随笔与拼贴,并允许给每篇帖子设计彩色边框。对写作者来说,它提醒我们:排版、画面和平台形态本身就是表达的一部分,而不只是文字的容器。

    关键词 博客视觉写作拼贴个人网站

    可以直接用的写作要点

    1. 01

      把一篇随笔当成一组「小方块」来编排——图文交替、分段成块,比一整屏连续长文更有节奏感。

    2. 02

      给文章配一套固定的视觉风格(边框、配色、版式),让读者在读到文字之前就先认出「这是你写的」。

    3. 03

      刻意降低发布成本:摩擦越小,越容易写得随意、写得勤;追求精致平台反而容易让人不敢动笔。

    4. 04

      如果写长段落,务必留意排版密度——大块文字在窄栏里会显得拥挤难读,宁可多切段、多留白。

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    博客应回归视觉化、拼贴式的随性表达,而不是千篇一律的灰色文字框。

    我们是 glitchyowl 和 kickscondor,这是我们的合作项目:试着让「博客」更有表现力、更视觉化。现在的网页几乎都收敛成一种叫「gwalb」的颜色——灰里带一点蓝;从当年人人都能堆满动态 gif 和跑马灯的个人主页,退化成给每个人一个约 680x680 的方框,塞一张图或一段没有样式、没有链接的纯文本。我们想做的是视觉随笔和拼贴,更接近漫画或幻灯片,而不是 Medium、Substack 那种近似论文的博客;你还可以为自己的帖子设计彩色边框,让身份感不止于一个名字和头像。我们不想和社交媒体正面竞争,只是想提供一个另类的工具。

    kickscondor查看英文原文

    So we are glitchyowl and kickscondor - this is a collaboration between us - an attempt to make 'blogging' more expressive and visual, possibly to break a piece off and reboot it, now that it's fallen out of fashion. The Web seems to have converged on a color called 'gwalb' - gray with a little blue. We've gone from home pages - which users could dump endless animated gifs and marquees on to - to giving everyone a roughly 680x680 square to put a picture or some unstyled, unlinked text into. We think being on the Web can still be expressive and casual. Multiverse is a place for creating visual essays and collages - closer to comics or slideshows than to a 'blog' on Medium or Substack or Wordpress - which are very close to essays. You can also design colorful frames for your posts, to increase the sense of identity, beyond a name and an avatar. We're not trying to go head-to-head with social media here - just offering a new tool that breaks ranks from the other software out there. We know many of you care about the Web - it has a very fun and freewheeling side to it that we want to help foster, as well as standards like RSS and Webmentions that still make sense! And it's still a great place to meet people and make memories. We've spent the past six months on this. We will probably offer a paid plan if it becomes interesting to people. Are we on the right track here? - glitchyowl & kicks

    平台化的统一模板抹掉了「拙劣但有趣」的个人表达,粗糙反而有生命力。

    我怀念当年大家在 Geocities 上随手搭各种站点展示小众爱好的年代。那些页面几乎都很「丑」,但视觉上很有趣。我曾翻过几百个汽车爱好者的 Geocities 站点,他们根本不懂建站,只想晒自己的车——糟糕的交互、渣画质的图,但点开一张随机图片跳进内页、再顺着链接一路点下去,这个过程本身就很好玩。现在大家只把内容发在 Facebook、Blogger 这类预先设计好的平台上,一半的乐趣就没了:Facebook 上的东西我一概不想看,Blogger 上偶有好内容,但大多数帖子毫无趣味。也可能只是我老了、爱抱怨。

    overshard查看英文原文

    I honestly miss people building random stuff on the internet to showcase unique information on things like Geocities. They were almost always "ugly" but also always visually entertaining. I remember skimming through hundreds of car Geocities sites by enthusiasts who had no clue how to build a website but wanted to show off their rides. It was always a rollercoaster of poor UX and bad quality images but something was also fun about finding the random image that was a link to some internal page that had more random links on it to more and more and more. Now everyone just posts info on curated pre-designed platforms and blogs like Facebook or Blogger which takes out half of the appeal for me, I instantly don't care about anything posted on Facebook and don't have a Facebook account. There is some good content on Blogger and the likes but there's nothing fun about most of the posts. I clearly have been visiting the wrong sites and probably could dig up similar content to what I miss. It could also just be me being old and grumpy.

    降低门槛、强调好玩,比空喊「人人该有个人网站」更有效;帖子式结构还支持「用一页回复另一页」的互文写法。

    我觉得这个项目很棒。这个社区里流行说「每个人都该有自己的个人网站」,但现有方案的门槛太高、可表达的东西又太少,所以大多数人(哪怕是技术人)都不会真的去做。这个项目看起来很好玩,而「好玩」就是个很好的起点。我点了一圈发现,「帖子」总是嵌在 Multiverse 自己的站点样式里,这让它少了一点「自己的网络角落」的感觉,但体验更统一。这是有意为之、鼓励「以帖子为单位」而非「以个人站点为单位」的创作吗?我偏爱个人站点路线,但帖子式也带来有趣的可能,比如用一页去「回复」另一页,整体更社交化。

    graphpapa查看英文原文

    I think this is great. It seems to be a popular opinion on this site that ‘everyone should have a personal website’.. but I think the options available don’t make it a likely outlet for a lot of people because there is too much friction required for too little expressiveness. Even for technical people. This project seems like fun, and that’s a great starting point. I noticed when clicking around that it is set up so that ‘posts’ are always embedded within the multiverse site styling. This makes it have less of a ‘personal space on the internet’ feeling, but it does keep the experience more consistent, compared to if posts filled the whole page. Was this a deliberate choice to encourage more ‘post-based’ creation and less ‘personal-site’ type creation? I am partial to the ‘personal-site’ approach but ‘post-based’ suggests other interesting options, like being able to ‘reply’ to one page with another page, and generally being a little more social

    视觉化不等于花哨背景,大段文字的排版可读性仍是底线。

    我喜欢你们「让博客更有表现力、更视觉化」的目标。但在我看来,它有点太接近 Tumblr 了,而 Tumblr 并没有真正实现深层的「表现力与视觉化」,希望你们继续探索、做出区分。零散反馈:小段文字展示得不错,但大段文字有时显得拥挤、难读;背景色让我受不了,也许每个背景可以有个纯色兜底,让读者切换成只显示纯色;另外「Composed on today」应改成「Composed today」。希望这些不显得负面,你们做的事很有意思,只是在我看来还没完全达到你们宣称的目标。

    lokl查看英文原文

    I like your goal "to make 'blogging' more expressive and visual, possibly to break a piece off and reboot it, now that it's fallen out of fashion." I have the impression that, with some of your other projects, Kicks, you are trying to do this for all the web, not just blogging. However, for my taste, this feels a little too close to Tumblr, which I don't think achieves "expressive and visual" in a deep sense. I hope that you will continue to explore and find more ways to differentiate yourself. Misc. feedback: I like how you present small blocks of text, but large blocks of text seem cramped sometimes, difficult to read. The backgrounds are killing me. Perhaps, each background could have a solid-color fallback and readers could toggle to only display the solid fallbacks? "Composed on today" -> "Composed today" (likewise for "yesterday") I hope this doesn't come across as negative. What you're doing is very interesting to me and I look forward to seeing where it goes. It just hasn't fully achieved your stated goal, yet, in my opinion.

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