Do you have experience with trix? I considered it for a while for the LW2 editor, but wasn’t sure whether it wasn’t modular enough to build custom UI stuff on that I would definitely want later, but I am also not super happy with draft.js, which is what we are using right now.
Actually, not too much. Maybe I shouldn’t have given it a shout out. I used it in one small side project, and it was easy enough to plug in, I think it’s really well designed and has great features, and in my mind, Basecamp has a really great reputation.
But I don’t know anything about building custom UI stuff on top of Trix. If it’s difficult to do, and important to have, I could totally see Trix not being the right choice for LW 2.0. However, if the custom UI stuff isn’t going to come until much later on, perhaps it would make sense to use Trix in the mean time and then transfer over to something else when you’re ready for custom UI stuff. Although that depends on how difficult the transferring over would be. I dunno.
“Good looking”, of course not, because Medium can afford, and has, a team of designers working on their site’s appearance. With an easy-to-mod platform plus at least one good designer, you can get pretty close to Medium levels of good looks (or even better, as Medium is constrained by its nature to make certain questionable or outright poor design choices).
On “simple” I have to disagree. There’s nothing complex about the setup I describe (from the writer’s perspective). (Of course it needs a good admin supporting it—as does any platform with non-trivial capabilities.)
I meant the platform needs a good admin, not each individual blog. Does Medium not need admins? Does Wordpress (wordpress.com, I mean, not self-hosted Wordpress installs) not need admins? Does Arbital not need admins?
What I’m saying is that if, hypothetically, I wanted to create a platform for other people to have blogs on (who needed LaTeX support and so on), I wouldn’t need to develop new software for it, because such a thing already exists (and is very capable).
Yes, there are components one can put together to make it all work well. But there is nothing as simple and as good looking as Medium.
Agreed. Although I’d like to also give a shout out to https://trix-editor.org/.
Do you have experience with trix? I considered it for a while for the LW2 editor, but wasn’t sure whether it wasn’t modular enough to build custom UI stuff on that I would definitely want later, but I am also not super happy with draft.js, which is what we are using right now.
Actually, not too much. Maybe I shouldn’t have given it a shout out. I used it in one small side project, and it was easy enough to plug in, I think it’s really well designed and has great features, and in my mind, Basecamp has a really great reputation.
But I don’t know anything about building custom UI stuff on top of Trix. If it’s difficult to do, and important to have, I could totally see Trix not being the right choice for LW 2.0. However, if the custom UI stuff isn’t going to come until much later on, perhaps it would make sense to use Trix in the mean time and then transfer over to something else when you’re ready for custom UI stuff. Although that depends on how difficult the transferring over would be. I dunno.
“Good looking”, of course not, because Medium can afford, and has, a team of designers working on their site’s appearance. With an easy-to-mod platform plus at least one good designer, you can get pretty close to Medium levels of good looks (or even better, as Medium is constrained by its nature to make certain questionable or outright poor design choices).
On “simple” I have to disagree. There’s nothing complex about the setup I describe (from the writer’s perspective). (Of course it needs a good admin supporting it—as does any platform with non-trivial capabilities.)
Yup, that’s a nonstarter for most casual bloggers.
I meant the platform needs a good admin, not each individual blog. Does Medium not need admins? Does Wordpress (wordpress.com, I mean, not self-hosted Wordpress installs) not need admins? Does Arbital not need admins?
What I’m saying is that if, hypothetically, I wanted to create a platform for other people to have blogs on (who needed LaTeX support and so on), I wouldn’t need to develop new software for it, because such a thing already exists (and is very capable).