Terence Eden made a list of 12 sites serving plain text (and sometimes markdown too). Vgl [[Providing Blog Posts in Plain Text – Interdependent Thoughts 20251229121518]] when I marked it as a side-project.
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- Jan 2026
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Web2.0 seems to have been a mistake and is being rolled back entirely. The whole concept of having your own web property that other people can write to (leave comments and other things) has gone away. That means also there’s no need for a dynamic website with database anymore.
The second follows from the first, but the first not necessarily true. The commenting thing is bigger than ever, but coopted in the silos to create ad revenue. I have more interaction on my blog again than I had in years, due to the non-silo'd social platforms. I wonder, interaction is only ever needed on newish stuff. I like the speed of static content. So what if I had a mix, latest x posts are dynamic, the rest served statically on the same urls as before. Vgl [[Providing Blog Posts in Plain Text – Interdependent Thoughts 20251229121518]]
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- Jan 2016
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programminghistorian.org programminghistorian.org
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what you see is not what you get.
Clever reversal of the claim that these interfaces are WYSIWYG.
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many authors base their practice on proprietary tools and formats that sometimes fall short of even the most basic requirements of scholarly writing.
So the issue is both with the proprietary nature of the tools (and the concomitant vicissitudes) and the simple pragmatism of the tool for the job.
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