Be careful with JavaScript and saving plain text passwords in cookies:<p><a href="http://cookie.pen.io" rel="nofollow">http://cookie.pen.io</a><p>I just stole your password. :)<p><pre><code> <img src="" onerror="alert(document.cookie.replace(/^.+pw=([^;]+);.+$/, '$1'));"></code></pre>
I wanted to test this and decided on the name "test", which was taken. I tried "test1", then "test12" .. etc.
My point: let me choose if I want a nice URL, and if I decide, then tell me if it is taken. I the meantime I would have enjoyed something like: pen.io/fjS7f
Besides from that: great idea and nice design.
Reminds me of TidyPub, also featured on HN a few months back:<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1952882" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1952882</a>
Very nice site and well executed, however...<p>It doesn't support Unicode?<p>I created <a href="http://namuna.pen.io/" rel="nofollow">http://namuna.pen.io/</a> with devnagari script and it shows garbled text. I hope you know that ~2-3 billion people don't use Roman Script.
How did you come with the concept?<p>Future update idea, if you could collate pages you've created. Instead of it getting lost in the void if you forget the IRL and need it months from now.
Very cool idea, and nice site. I noticed that you are serving your own jquery. I've read that it's better to link to Google's host as it is more likely to be cached (and other reasons). Is this a conscious decision on your part, or is it just a part of the puzzle you haven't wrestled with yet? (Honest question- I don't know the right answer because I haven't wrestled with it yet.)<p>Google jquery link:<p><pre><code> <script type="text/JavaScript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.3/jquery.min.js"></script></code></pre>
I'd recommend reversing the workflow like <a href="http://min.us" rel="nofollow">http://min.us</a>.<p>Accept the content first, then authenticate when users try & save. It removes a barrier to entry, and for people just testing, doesn't waste subdomains.<p>I'd also recommend ditching the subomain for a subdir. Regular people don't really get it. Yes, there are major services that do it, but i know from experience that social networking has trained average folks for years to use subdirs vs subdomains (twitter, facebook, myspace).
That column of text is far too wide for comfortable reading.<p>Good suggestions on picking an appropriate measure here:
<a href="http://webtypography.net/Rhythm_and_Proportion/Horizontal_Motion/2.1.2/" rel="nofollow">http://webtypography.net/Rhythm_and_Proportion/Horizontal_Mo...</a>
This is reminiscent of infogami. I dug up some old pages.<p><a href="http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003008.html" rel="nofollow">http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003008.h...</a>
<a href="http://blog.reddit.com/2006/02/infogami.html" rel="nofollow">http://blog.reddit.com/2006/02/infogami.html</a>
<a href="http://webpy.org/" rel="nofollow">http://webpy.org/</a><p>I'm quite fond of web.py. It appears that it is still actively maintained and can do quite a lot.<p><a href="http://webpy.org/cookbook/" rel="nofollow">http://webpy.org/cookbook/</a>
I love it. Better, I showed my wife and she loved it too.<p>One thing that I wanted while I was editing was a tag list (like you have on the About page, but right there on the edit page).
Would be cool to add a grouping by hashtag function.<p>So I choose the page name for my first entry to be Test123, and I also add hashtag #StartupPosts<p>Then later I make an entry called BlahBlah1 and hashtag #StartupPosts , it groups the two together. Then users can search by Hashtags to find posts.<p>Also, common hash tags would allow people to search content from multiple users. For example #Religion would have a bunch of religion based posts, from different users etc.
I think you should give them out editable pretty URLs made from title of the post such as pen.io/this-is-a-test-page instead of sub-domains. This will also help you with the SEO.<p>Assume that people will want to build lot of pages. Don't let the lack of sub-domains hinder this. Plus, in future you can let them build a blog or something from this set of pages. Advantage you have is you are letting them start-off with minimum resistance.
I like this, however, I'd rather this be something I could deploy privately on my own web hosting. I've been looking for a simple cms system when I write plain text files and something like this generate all the pagination, layout and so forth.
Cool. like how it gives you a subdomain, that way you can tell people the address in conversation. What are you using to host/script it?<p><a href="http://littlepoem.pen.io/" rel="nofollow">http://littlepoem.pen.io/</a>
(password: password)
Looks nice. I actually developed a site that is eerily similar, but a bit different over January. Haven't released it yet though.<p>Anyways, small bug for your :video tag. No opening < for the iframe tag, so it just shows up as HTML.
Would be cool to have a link to help. I ended up accidentally deleting the intro text that comes as the default page content and couldn't figure out how to make a new page.
Nice concept - would be good to have a footer link to the instructions when in edit mode.<p>For me, being able to use markdown or similar would be a big plus.
The user interface look good. It's like posterious. I ve got this error:<p>Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '}' in /nfs/c02/h08/mnt/41076/domains/pen.io/html/functions/common.php on line 346