A bit over four years ago I started writing daily. Just a simple blog without any fancy features. Just simple post without any fancy content.
Two years ago I joined another writing platform. Still kept writing on my own, posting the same posts in both. Now that platform is gone, spawning three successors. Some people have already announced writing on all three. Some, like Brandon even announced they'll write separate posts on each site. All props to them, I don't think I could do that. Writing code and building this kind of platforms might be easy for me like writing is for others. So I might stick to cross posting. I should get my old blog transferred over to Writestreak so I could at least get down to three.
On the other hand, they do have different purpose. I like how abrahamKim had an idea of writing about the development journey of this site on jasonleow 's Lifelog. Maybe I should do the same. It does feel like a perfect place to focus on such concrete goal.
With all these platforms I once again return to the idea of interoperability. There are different posts, different sites and different purposes. It would be nice to use each one of them for their intended purpose, but keeping up the streak in all three might turn out to be challenging. Sure cross posting (preferably via API's) would make the think effortless, but not that I have thought about it, ti might be just unnecessary noise to all those sites to post everything to everywhere. So instead (or in addition) we could also have a common streak. And why stop there: what other features we could span across the platforms to make something unique?
What type of interoperabilities were you thinking? Provide some high level concepts of how they might work.
I'm down to do crossposting interoperability, but I feel that we could do something more useful than that. If crossposting is the only thing we do I feel like we're simply duplicating content but not contributing much value after that.
Keeping streak across the sites, easy linking between sites / posts... I haven't thought too far about this before I know there is interest for these kind of things. Just opening up the discussion 😄
It's something I need to keep an open mind to because I actually am skeptical of interoperable systems. I never imagine them as working out successfully save for the examples of businesses who build APIs that communicate with each other for profit oriented reasons.
Maybe that'd be a good guideline for us to keep in mind then. Profit or if not money profit atleast usefulness to users.
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I'm down to do crossposting interoperability, but I feel that we could do something more useful than that. If crossposting is the only thing we do I feel like we're simply duplicating content but not contributing much value after that.
It's something I need to keep an open mind to because I actually am skeptical of interoperable systems. I never imagine them as working out successfully save for the examples of businesses who build APIs that communicate with each other for profit oriented reasons.
Maybe that'd be a good guideline for us to keep in mind then. Profit or if not money profit atleast usefulness to users.