textlanes33
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Comment · 8 days ago
Updated the landing page headline based on your feedback. Thanks!
Comment · 8 days ago
Haha. But I am seriously thinking about MCP. It's one of the candidates for the next feature, but I'm hesitant because it could be used to mass-publish low-value posts (think E-E-A-T). Have you ever needed MCP for running your blog?
Comment · 9 days ago
Someone asked how it holds up with a long post and large images, so I made a sample: https://bloffy.bloffy.blog/en/a-heavy-post-long-text-and-lar...
And here's the PageSpeed Insights result: https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/https-bloffy-bloffy-blog-...
It's a long post with lots of images in different sizes, plus diagrams and math.
Images uploaded in the editor get a srcset with 4 widths, and the CDN compresses them to suit each browser. Since we know each image's original width and height, the layout doesn't shift.
Diagrams and math are rendered to SVG and MathML when you publish, so readers can load them quite fast.
I actually wanted to talk about this too, so I'm glad I got the chance to answer. Thanks.
(The SEO score there is low only because the sample blog is noindexed.)
Comment · 9 days ago
Thanks, you're right. It's just lab data for now. I'll check it again once we get real visitors.
Comment · 9 days ago
Oh, I see. I didn't know about the showdead setting. Thanks for letting me know!
Comment · 9 days ago
Thanks! I'm a solo developer based in Korea. Since it's not a company, I'm not sure what I should put there. What do solo developers usually include on their About page?
Comment · 9 days ago
Oops, you're right. The CSS was showing up as-is in the summary of the first post on the list page. I've edited the post. Thanks!
Comment · 9 days ago
Thank you so much. This is my first time sharing my product on Hacker News, and every bit of attention like this makes me really happy.
1. You're right. I actually considered it, but I thought a demo would make the landing page quite heavy. Your comment gave me the idea of making a separate page where you can try a demo. Great suggestion, thank you.
2. Thanks. This was actually intentional. As a first target, I'd like Bloffy to appeal to developers who care a lot about SEO. Bloffy is also a bit different from typical blog products built to be easy for everyone. The goal is for it to grow, over time, into a blog customized to you. The first target is developers, but going further, SEO professionals who can handle HTML, CSS, and basic JS could be a target too.
3. You're right. I'll make the differences clearer on the landing page, and I'm also planning to write a separate post about how Bloffy differs from other blogging platforms.
4. I think you mean the demo video on the landing page? The pace does feel a bit fast. I was trying to keep it under a minute. I'll take that into account. Thanks!
Comment · 9 days ago
Haha, right? Bloffy doesn't use PHP at all.
Comment · 9 days ago
The confirmation email is no longer sent in Korean. It now comes in the language of the site you signed up from. Thanks for catching it!
Comment · 9 days ago
Fixed.
Comment · 9 days ago
There's currently a bug that breaks sign-up on every language version of the site except English. If you'd like to sign up now, please use the English sign-up page and keep the site in English until you're done:
https://bloffy.co/en/workspace/sign-up
I'm fixing this right now.
Comment · 9 days ago
Yes, it's a hosted service.
My native language is Korean, and by "your own blog" I meant something like "a blog that's truly yours." I was trying to sum up a few things in that one phrase: you can customize it freely, the platform interferes very little, it's friendly to raw HTML, and it allows JavaScript. I think that line could be misleading, so I'll need to reword it.
Thank you.