Looks very nice. I'd actually consider using this.<p>Questions:<p>* I like that you support tags. How do you browse tags?<p>* Customizable URL slugs: so if I want to date my archive URLs I have to manually type in '/archive/2013/10/07/slug' each time? Is there any way to template the archive URLs?<p>* How does your archive page scale when you have thousands of posts? <a href="https://dsowers.silvrback.com/archive" rel="nofollow">https://dsowers.silvrback.com/archive</a><p>* As others have mentioned, I'd really prefer a free trial than shell out money (I understand it's not much) and feel like I wasted it if I poke around for a few minutes and find it's not for me.<p>* I had a question about exporting data but someone already asked it :)<p>* "Your homepage... will show the latest three posts in full." Is this customizable? I often have a bunch of short posts that mostly serve to keep track of stuff I read and find it later. I'd rather show the last, say, week's worth of content instead of a fixed number of posts.<p>* Full text search?
Question - is there an export option included? A cursory glance around the pages doesn't turn anything up.<p>I've had to stage an emergency exodus of blog content from third party hosts more than once because reasons (most recently: Thanks OVH billing department!), so having content in a non-exportable site scares me a little, especially when I'll be using that site as my primary writing area.
Just to throw my 2 cents in, I recently switched from octopress to using silvrback at <a href="http://vivekgani.com" rel="nofollow">http://vivekgani.com</a> - here's why:<p>- I work part-time as a contractor, and part-time on my side project. While I have a ton of blog design ideas, I lost a personal bet that I'd have them done by the end of September.<p>- I have had lots of posts backlogged over the past several months. I was starting to have a fear of posting due to the design of my older site.<p>- Octopress is wonderful, but to use it right you really need to be familiar with tagging your repos correctly / using a separate repo for your posts. I didn't want to think about all this in addition to all my usual pickiness about the front-end design.<p>- I really didn't want to fiddle with wordpress. This is a personal blog, not something I plan to delegate to other content writers.<p>- As glennf and others have mentioned, I didn't want to use medium, or any other free site. I want my own domain to be used, and occasionally look at google analytics.<p>So far, I'm happy with silvrback. Liking how it properly scales images when I use refer to them within a list, Markdown is the first class citizen, and psychologically I'm not thinking too hard about blog design for now. Yes, there's some UX annoyances with the initial release of silvrback, but I'm sure Damian's working on them.<p>Will I still be using it in couple years? Maybe not, but for a site that's only got a couple posts and already gotten a couple thousand visits and mentions from sites like hackaday & packlite.tumblr in the past week I'm happy enough with it.
Rather than offering a free trial, you make everything paid upfront and offer a refund if they don't like it. I wonder if this strategy will net you more or less sales. My gut tells me that it will be less, because more people will be driven away by the fact that they can't even test it before paying, but who knows, really. Might be an interesting thing to A/B test and write about the results.
Already up and running on this. Thanks Damian!<p>I really like this layout compared to doing it myself with Octopress. It's much more convenient to have most of the decisions made for me because I tend to get into optimization paralysis.
I just signed up and migrated (manually, as there doesn't seem to be any way to import stuff) my blog from tumblr.<p><a href="http://kristianoellegaard.silvrback.com/" rel="nofollow">http://kristianoellegaard.silvrback.com/</a> vs <a href="http://blog.kristian.io/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.kristian.io/</a><p>To be honest, I think it is a bit too minimal. With the tagline "own your brand", I find it strange that the site is completely white and generic - what exactly is my brand then? Not even my name or picture is in the header.<p>I was also hoping for the posibility to write a synopsis for each blog article, as I some very long and technical articles that I don't want to be displayed in its full length on the front page. This unfortunately isn't possible.<p>Furhtermore, I find the menu thing extremely strange. It took me a while to discover it and I don't think it's very user friendly.<p>I have to say that if the above things are not fixed, I don't think I would want to move my blog at all. Fortunately I signed up for the monthly plan.<p>Edit: Also, it would be cool to let me store the markdown documents in Dropbox, so I could use a proper editor (and also for import/export).
Yet another blogging platform for which I need to use 'ctrl -', resulting in a content-width of less than 600 pixels, which looks ridiculous on a modern monitor.<p>I still don't get the 'large print' trend. Yes, I've read all the so-called 'pro's', but the content still looks ridiculously sparse to me.
This looks really nice. What are the advantages compared to some comparable blogging platforms out there? Couldn't I just use Octopress or Github Pages to achieve similar functionality?
If you'd like to get even more speed, ensure your assets are minified, compressed and cacheable, and served directly from the filesystem if possible. There aren't any Cache-Control: or Expires: headers for those. It took nearly 1.5 seconds to retrieve <a href="https://dsowers.silvrback.com/assets/application-cb034c94e2bea7e99bb5eaef37b8e646.js" rel="nofollow">https://dsowers.silvrback.com/assets/application-cb034c94e2b...</a>, and time to first byte was 634ms.
Silvrback is really nice and interesting. Why not reimagine publishing from the ground up using Markdown syntax?<p>This is what we're trying to do with <a href="http://markdawn.com/" rel="nofollow">http://markdawn.com/</a>. The reason I'm leaving a comment here is that the app is not ready for a “Show HN” yet (or maybe it's just a designer/engineer complex for not doing that at this time).
Is there a way to see the available colour schemes <i>without</i> having to pay any money? Having created a colour scheme that's also called "Autumn" I'm wondering if it in this case would be mine or somebody else's (probably the latter).
I'm also a very happy early Silvrback customer. It's fast, simple, attractive, and very easy to setup with your own domain: <a href="http://self-proficient.com/" rel="nofollow">http://self-proficient.com/</a>
I just opened an account and get really dissapointed when I found that your Logo (silvrback) it's all over my blog. We are already paying for your service, there is no need to put your logo all over OUR blog.
This looks really cool, so I'll sound like an ass for saying this, but: for $6.99 / month, what do I get over a free blogging solution?<p>> Full ownership of your brand and data.<p>This is the only thing not provided by anyone else afaik.
What do the Markdown people think of things like NML: (<a href="http://genius.cat-v.org/erik-naggum/xml-sgml-nml-lisp" rel="nofollow">http://genius.cat-v.org/erik-naggum/xml-sgml-nml-lisp</a>)? Isn't this a much nicer way of working with HTML (especially with macros)? The syntax described in the link is compact and elegant, whereas markdown is smallish but basically ad hoc.