I’ve watched people waste countless hours dealing with regular blog software like Wordpress and don’t want to go anywhere near it,
If some people are willing to pay for your news, maybe you could find a volunteer (by telling them that creating the blog software is the condition for you to publish) to make the website.
To emulate the (lack of) functionality of an e-mail, you only need to log in as the administrator, and write a new article. The Markdown syntax, as used on LW, could be a good choice. Then the website must display the list of articles, the individual articles, and the RSS feed. That’s it; someone could do that in a weekend. And you would get the extra functionality of being able to correct mistakes in already published articles, and make hyperlinks between them.
Then you need functionality to manage users: log in as user, change the password, adding and removing users as admin. There could even be an option for users to enter their e-mails, so the new articles will be sent to them automatically (so they de facto have a choice between web and e-mail format). This all is still within a weekend or two of work.
I meant in my existing static site setup. (If I were to set up a blog of my own, it would probably go into a subdomain, yes.)
If some people are willing to pay for your news, maybe you could find a volunteer (by telling them that creating the blog software is the condition for you to publish) to make the website.
How would that help?
And you would get the extra functionality of being able to correct mistakes in already published articles, and make hyperlinks between them.
I don’t often need to correct mistakes in snippets, month-old LW comments, etc. I do often correct my essays, but those are not the issue.
How about “blog.gwern.net″ or even ”gwernblog.net″?
If some people are willing to pay for your news, maybe you could find a volunteer (by telling them that creating the blog software is the condition for you to publish) to make the website.
To emulate the (lack of) functionality of an e-mail, you only need to log in as the administrator, and write a new article. The Markdown syntax, as used on LW, could be a good choice. Then the website must display the list of articles, the individual articles, and the RSS feed. That’s it; someone could do that in a weekend. And you would get the extra functionality of being able to correct mistakes in already published articles, and make hyperlinks between them.
Then you need functionality to manage users: log in as user, change the password, adding and removing users as admin. There could even be an option for users to enter their e-mails, so the new articles will be sent to them automatically (so they de facto have a choice between web and e-mail format). This all is still within a weekend or two of work.
I meant in my existing static site setup. (If I were to set up a blog of my own, it would probably go into a subdomain, yes.)
How would that help?
I don’t often need to correct mistakes in snippets, month-old LW comments, etc. I do often correct my essays, but those are not the issue.