LiveJournal was a unique blogging platform that combined social networking features.

The platform was inspired by the WELL and initially used for keeping up with school friends, highlighting its early social networking focus.

LiveJournal started as a blogging platform featuring online diaries, comments, and collective community blogs for users with shared interests.

The platform allowed users to add friends, follow records, and interact through features like commenting, facilitating social networking and user engagement.

Brad Fitzpatrick created LiveJournal as a personal journaling application before opening it to others.

Brad Fitzpatrick made key technical decisions when transforming his journaling application into LiveJournal, including choosing a programming language and database schema.

Fitzpatrick implemented a unique commenting system, allowing users to engage in threaded conversations.

LiveJournal's friending system allowed users to add friends and control post visibility, differentiating it from other platforms.

LiveJournal's popularity declined over time due to the rise of other social media platforms and changes in user behavior.

The emergence of Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram contributed to LiveJournal's decline as users migrated to these platforms.

The platform's user interface and features became less competitive, leading to declining user engagement.

LiveJournal's history highlights the tech industry's need for ongoing development, innovation, and adaptation to changing user needs.

LiveJournal's unique features led to early success, but its lack of adaptation and innovation caused its decline.

LiveJournal was a unique blogging platform that combined social networking features.

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Content: Regulators Seem to Think That Facebook Is the Internet

That’s a problem.

In 1997, SixDegrees.com was the first real attempt at social networking, creating a space where users could upload their information and list their friends. The site peaked at approximately 3.5 million users before it shut down in 1999.

Since then, a series of social networking business models have emerged, each time offering more advanced tools for user interaction. LiveJournal, a site for keeping up with school friends, combined blogging and social networking features inspired by the WELL; Friendster was a social network that allowed for increased interaction and control by users; Myspace had open membership and gave users the freedom to customize their pages. In 2005, it—and its 25 million user base—was sold to News Corp. But within three years, Myspace had been surpassed by Facebook, which launched in 2004 for college students and opened to everyone in 2006.

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As that history shows, in the early days of the internet, disruption was profound and constant: New companies emerged in music, video, e-commerce, publishing, and telephony on an almost yearly basis. The internet appeared to be a space where competition could thrive.

Not anymore.

Today, disruption happens in much smaller ways. The examples are getting fewer because economies of scale have concentrated innovation in the hands of a few players.

More often, disruption comes from regulation—for better or, often, for worse. Current regulation attempts focus on the actions and behavior of some actors—chiefly Facebook—while creating unintended consequences for the internet, particularly fragmentation, or the splintering of the global internet into one that more closely hews territorial borders.

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It’s understandable that both the public and regulators might think that regulating “the internet” means focusing on the biggest players. Much of it has to do with the fact that users are often exposed to various types of illegal behavior and content through some of the most popular services that exist on the internet. Fix misinformation, or extremism, or ideological silos, or security on Facebook, the thinking goes, and you’ve fixed it on the internet as a whole.

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But this is an unhelpful and misguided narrative. First, the internet is not a monolith, so treating it as if it is simply will not work. Second, many of the issues regulators are trying to address are not internet problems; they are societal. Terrorism, child abuse, and mis- and disinformation are not an offspring of the internet; they existed before the internet, and they will continue to exist after it as they are ingrained in human societies. Yet, they are treated as if they are exclusively internet problems. Third, and most importantly, regulators should stop thinking of the internet as Facebook and treating it as such. In the internet regulatory landscape, there is a mixed bag of different issues, and Facebook’s involvement in all of them, direct or indirect, adds to the current complexity. Content moderation, privacy, intermediary liability, competition, encryption—these are all broader issues related to the internet, not just Facebook. Yet, the pattern that has emerged is to treat them as Facebook issues. What this means is that, instead of focusing on trying to address them in ways appropriate for the entire internet ecosystem, they are addressed through the Facebook lens. This has been quite accurately characterized as the “Facebook Derangement Syndrome.”

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The global regulatory agenda is replete with such examples. In the United Kingdom, the Online Safety legislation wants to ban end-to-end encryption because of Facebook’s plan to introduce it as a default setting in its Messenger service. On the other side of the Commonwealth, Australia recently introduced a media bargaining code mainly targeting Facebook. Facebook famously “left” the country before renegotiating a new agreement. Similarly, in what seems to be a coordinated effort, Canada has vowed to work with Australia in an attempt to impose regulatory restrictions on Facebook.

And this trend is not limited to the Commonwealth.

India’s new intermediary guidelines aim at tightening a regulatory grip on Facebook and its partner company WhatsApp while Brazil’s fake news bill, which got approved by the Senate, is focusing on content moderation on Facebook and traceability on WhatsApp. In France, there have been conversations about the introduction of “new rules” for Facebook, while Germany’s Network Enforcement Law—NetzDG—was drafted with the primary focus of taming Facebook. Finally, in the United States, the Trump administration issued an unsuccessful executive order that aimed to regulate Facebook for bias.

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This approach of limiting regulation to Facebook is not entirely unusual. It reflects the principal-agent conundrum that, over the years, has allowed companies like Facebook to  propose policies and deploy tools that can have an impact on the way regulation gets to be enforced. The principal-agent problem is predominantly characterized by conflict of interest and moral hazards. Due to information asymmetries, the agent holds the bargaining power, and this creates a few unknowns: The principal is in no position to know the information the agent holds. Even when she does, she cannot be certain that the agent is acting to her best interest. So, the principal ends up focusing squarely on the agent, disregarding any peripheral issues that might be significant.

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The principal-agent problem may help explain why governments appear ready to introduce regulation targeting Facebook; however, it does not help explain why, in the process of doing so, the main loser is the internet and its users.

Over the past couple of years, Facebook has said, “We support regulation,” and “we want updated internet regulations to set clear guidelines for addressing today’s toughest challenges.” This statement would be significant if it did not come across as self-serving. At this stage, regulation is inescapable and Facebook knows it—as does the rest of big tech. In an effort to adapt to this new reality, companies often take advantage of their dominant position to drive regulatory processes, often at the expense of regulation itself.

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In this context, the question we should be asking is not whether regulation is appropriate, but what are the real implications of regulating in such a manner? There is already an argument that focusing on a few, big players has an impact on the health of innovation and the ability of newcomers to compete. And, then, there is the internet. The internet’s global reach is one of its main strengths. It is a feature, not a bug. Among other things, it allows the maintenance of supply chains all over the world; it allows people to communicate; it lowers costs; and it makes information sharing easier, all the while helping to address societal issues like poverty or climate change.

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To this end, the attempt to regulate based on one—or a handful—of companies can jeopardize this very important goal of the internet. It can create fragmentation, in the sense of not allowing data to flow across borders or networks to interconnect, and this can be very real and have a very big impact. It can impose limits on the way information and data gets to be shared and the way networks may interoperate. These are significant trade-offs, and they must be part of any regulation’s process.

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So where do we go from here?

For sure, the answer cannot be to stop regulating. We must accept, however, that the current approach often generates unintended consequences that only superficially affect those who must be regulated.

In this light, a possible way forward is to experiment with regulation. Experimental regulation is a relatively underused approach, yet it is flexible enough to accommodate dynamic markets, like the internet. Originally associated with the work of John Dewey, this idea is premised on the fact that, in policymaking, the way we approach theories and strategies of justice depends on “the experience of their pursuit; it is these changes that then allow us to consider how best to achieve our objectives.” The advantage of this thinking is that it considers unintended consequences as an opportunity to better define appropriate regulatory frameworks and how to achieve the desired goals.

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Internet regulation does not experiment enough, and when it does, it appears to have the wrong focus. In Australia, for instance, the effort to ensure robust journalism in an age of disinformation in social media platforms led to a “link tax” that undermines the architecture, history, and economics of the internet. This is partly due to the role big tech companies play in the regulatory process. One of the immediate things one can observe with internet regulation is the process some actors deploy: In the beginning, they operate in favor of sustaining existing policies and bureaucracies. The thinking is that longevity brings legitimacy, and as a result, the policy becomes its own cause. Once this strategy is embedded in process, these powerful forces move toward pushing their own regulatory agenda.

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It is for this reason that there is a certain appeal toward flexible regulatory systems that allow different units to experiment with different approaches and make room for assessments that separate the relevant from the nonrelevant and preexisting rules. Although experimentation neither offers a drastic approach nor aims to replace traditional routes of regulation, it can limit the risks of politicization, as politics become more context focused.

One of the first things we need is an internet impact assessment that looks at the different parts of the internet’s infrastructure and the effect that regulation may have. It is no longer just about regulating a few actors. It is about protecting the global infrastructure that we all depend on daily.

The internet has a Facebook problem, but the internet is not Facebook.

This article represents the views of the author and not those of his employer, the Internet Society. Facebook is an organization member of the Internet Society.

Future Tense is a partnership of Slate, New America, and Arizona State University that examines emerging technologies, public policy, and society.

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Access to the "Live Journal" was restored after the administration of the LiveJournal blog platform executed the decisions of the judicial authorities of Kazakhstan on the removal of illegal materials posted on the resource.
Representatives of LiveJournal reported on the removal from the blogging platform of materials containing signs of propaganda of terrorism and religious extremism, public calls to commit acts of terrorism and the manufacture of explosive devices.
Earlier, the Saryarka court of Astana issued a decision to close access to the “Live Journal ” from August 20, 2011 due to the distribution of these materials.
As a result, the Committee of Communications, Informatization and Information of the Ministry of Investment and Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan decided to resume access to the resource on the territory of Kazakhstan from November 11 this year.
LiveJournal also plans to open a representative office in Kazakhstan and develop the Kazakhstan segment of the blogging platform.
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Content: Bluesky CEO confronts content moderation in the fediverse

The panel on stage at the Knight Foundation’s Informed event is Elon Musk’s nightmare blunt rotation: Techdirt editor Mike Masnick, Twitter’s former safety lead Yoel Roth, and Bluesky CEO Jay Graber, who have come together to discuss content moderation in the fediverse.

It’s been more than a year since Musk showed up at Twitter HQ with a literal sink in tow, but many social media users are still a bit nomadic, floating among various emerging platforms. And if a user made the choice to leave Twitter in the Musk era, they likely are looking for a platform with actual moderation policies, which means even more pressure for leaders like Graber to strike the fragile balance between tedious over-moderation and a fully hands-off approach.

“The whole philosophy has been that this needs to have a good UX and be a good experience,” Graber said about her approach to running Bluesky. “People aren’t just in it for the decentralization and abstract ideas. They’re in it for having fun and having a good time here.”

And at the start, users were having a good — really good — experience.

“We had a really high ratio of posters to lurkers. On a lot of social platforms, there’s a very small percentage of people who post, and a very large percentage of people who lurk,” Graber said. “It’s been a very active posting culture, and it continues to be, although the beginning was extremely high, like 90-95% of users were all posting.”

But Bluesky has faced some growing pains in its beta as it figures out what approach to take to delicate content moderation issues. In one incident, which Roth asked Graber about on the panel, users discovered that Bluesky did not have a list of words banned from appearing in user names. As a result, users started registering account names with racial slurs.

“At the time last summer, we were a really small team, like less than ten engineers. We could all fit around a conference table,” Graber said. When content moderators discovered the issue with slurs in usernames, the team patched the code, which is open source, so users could see the implementation of the word lists happen in real time, which sparked further debate. “We learned a lot about communication transparency and being really proactive…. One of the reasons we’ve stayed in beta so long is to give ourselves some space to get this right.”

Since then, both Bluesky’s userbase and its team have grown. Bluesky hired more engineers and content moderations, while its total number of users increased from about 50,000 at the end of April 2023, to over 3 million this month. And the platform still isn’t open to the public.

“It’s fair to say that about half of our technical product work has been related in some way to trust and safety, because moderation is quite core to how this works in an open ecosystem,” Graber said.

For platforms like Bluesky, Mastodon and Threads, content moderation challenges become even more complicated when you add in the variable of the fediverse.

Once the AT Protocol is fully up and running, anyone will be able to build their own social network atop Bluesky’s infrastructure — Bluesky, as a social network, is just one app built on the protocol. But this means that as new networks crop up on the AT Protocol, the company will have to decide how (or if) it should regulate what people do on the platform. For now, this means Bluesky is building what it calls “composable moderation.”

“Our broader vision here is composable moderation, and so that’s essentially saying that on the services we run, like the app, that we set a baseline for moderation,” Graber said. “But we want to build an ecosystem where anyone can participate [in moderation], and third party is really first party.”

Graber explains the complicated concept further in a blog post:

Centralized social platforms delegate all moderation to a central set of admins whose policies are set by one company. This is a bit like resolving all disputes at the level of the Supreme Court. Federated networks delegate moderation decisions to server admins. This is more like resolving disputes at a state government level, which is better because you can move to a new state if you don’t like your state’s decisions — but moving is usually difficult and expensive in other networks. We’ve improved on this situation by making it easier to switch servers, and by separating moderation out into structurally independent services.

So, Bluesky can mandate that copyright infringement and spam are not allowed, but an individual app built on the protocol can make its own rules, so long as they don’t contradict Bluesky’s baseline. For example, Bluesky allows users to post adult content, but if someone were to build a more family-friendly server on the AT protocol, they would have the right to ban adult content from their specific server — and if someone on that server disagreed with that decision, they could easily port over their account to a different server and retain all of their followers.

“One of the issues that we have right now is that, when you just have what Twitter or Meta gives you, and maybe just a few options or checkboxes, that’s not really algorithmic choice,” Masnick said. “That’s not really composable moderation. That’s not getting you to the level of really allowing different entities to try different things and to experiment and see what works best.”

Users can also choose to use third-party feeds to view content, instead of just choosing from a “recommended” and “following” tab.

“Rather than telling people decentralization has all these benefits in the abstract […] it’s a lot more powerful to just say, here, there’s 25,000 custom feeds that third party developers have built, and you can just choose from them,” Graber said.

But since it’s such early days for Bluesky, this composable moderation philosophy hasn’t really been tested yet. Meanwhile, companies from Cloudflare, to Substack, to Mastodon have reckoned with what to do when dangerous communities organize on your platform.

“Let’s say somebody takes all this code you’ve been publishing, and the AT protocol, and they build a new network. Let’s call it NaziSky,” Roth told Graber. “What do you do?”

Mastodon faced such an issue in 2019, when the far-right, Nazi-friendly social network Gab migrated to its servers after being kicked off of GoDaddy. Mastodon’s founder condemned Gab, but said at the time that decentralization prevented him from actually taking action — so, users had to take matters into their own hands. Individual Mastodon servers blocked Gab’s server en masse, making it impossible for Gab members to interact with others on the website. But still, Mastodon has to reckon with its open source code being used to power what it calls a “thinly (if at all) veiled white supremacist platform.”

“This is one of the trade-offs of open source, which is that there’s a lot of benefits — stuff is open, anyone can collaborate, anyone can contribute, anyone can use the code,” Graber said. “That also means people whose values drastically diverge from yours can use the code, grab it and run with it.”

Like what happened on Mastodon, Graber thinks that the user base will ultimately set the tone for what is considered acceptable behavior on the platform.

“It’s a pluralist ecosystem. There’s lots of parties out there, and when they unanimously decide that something is outside the Overton window of the norms of communication, then that becomes sort of the social consensus,” Graber said. “If a whole parallel universe emerges, that’s possible with open source software, but those communities don’t necessarily talk if the norms are so drastically divergent.”

Then again, dominant and centralized social platforms like Facebook and X have shown the dangers that can emerge when just a few people are in charge of these moderation decisions, rather than whole communities.

“Unfortunately, you can’t turn a Nazi into not a Nazi. But we can limit the impact of the Nazis,” Masnick said. “Let’s limit their ability to wreak havoc. I think that leads to a better place in the long run.”

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When Peter Fitzpatrick moving his very own modeling organization, quiet Models NY, 5yrs before, he was stunned by how unproductive the industry had been.

“A countless the procedure from how systems are scouted, to the way that they include booked, to the way that they communicate with clientele have numerous extra degree. it simply isn’t going to make some feeling,” he or she explained.

it is simply nowadays, though, which is the man worked out how to use tech to stamp out of the inefficiencies. Here, Fitzpatrick introduced Swipecast, a cell phone industry allowing photographers, developers, designers, and shops to arrange models through an iPhone software. The actual way it is effective is simple: business swipe through a look-book type index to find systems and straight email these people for a position. The two cover the exchange through app while the cash reaches the style just after the work is complete. Swipecast expectations to take advantage of not merely the $4 billion international female acting industry. From the application intentions to add in a variety of users from male models to locks and make-up artists, Fitzpatrick reports market prospects north of $20 billion (although after all this, it’s hard to approximate exactly how many experts will in actuality embrace they).

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Although Fitzpatrick possesses a modeling agencies, he or she realizes how they could hinder some elements of this business. Given that sizes expect companies to discover tasks, most of them manage just one or two days a week and enjoy payments times after a photo capture (from inefficiencies in how tasks are invoiced). As stated in stats from your ny work department, the hostile yearly salary for a model is $43,570. Through Swipecast, types can ideally earn more by reserving brand-new activities on the free era. Even better, these people maintain lots of the bucks — while businesses can take as many as one-third of a model’s income as profit, Swipecast simply will take ten percent.

From the clients stop, the app assists creatives familiarize yourself with systems before reserving them. “i prefer that you are able to have a chat immediately utilizing the design before cooperating with all of them,” explained Katie Burnett, a stylist who’s worked with Armani Exchange and Harper’s Bazaar China. “This makes it possible for me to see an exceptionally common sense from the identity from the style and the things they’re going to become over established before an editorial capture or a career.”

As a less clear profit, Swipecast can certainly help creatives spend less. Instead of flying out local models to exotic locales for international photo shoots, photographers can swipe through their phone to look for local talent when they arrive to the destination. At work, Fitzpatrick provides spoken to visitors which have paid for types to travel 3-4 hours to a location with connecting aircraft, lodges, and beste datingrecensies numerous cab trips, just by work in which the product’s look isn’t really actually included in the specific pic. “Now they’re going to be able to get hometown models for a portion of money,” said Fitzpatrick. They estimates that visitors who usually invest $2,500 to $3,000 on trips for items can come across local part-time types on Swipecast for at least $500 each day. Swipecast also offers an unconventional amount characteristic which comes in useful for up-and-coming styles stylists and photographers. Capable make use of “trade” alternative, exactly where the two trading their unique clothing or components for a model’s hours as opposed to paying the regular week speed.

Swipecast have multi-step affirmation and a two-way ranking program to make sure that both designs and clientele might have an enjoyable knowledge. Non-legitimate visitors tends to be straight away vetted outside; they can’t book framework unless they enter their particular personal data, company email, and charge card. This should be a marked improvement over a similar try by version Mayhem, a profile web site for specialist framework and wedding photographers. The difficulty am that it was too open — recently, there seemed to be a scandal when the site neglected to advise the customers that there are rapists hiding on the internet site.

Fitzpatrick dreams Swipecast will ultimately function like a cultural system. He or she imagines a scenario exactly where brands stay in touch with the software, in preference to through personal telephone calls or messages. This is especially of great help for unknown styles exactly who fly into different countries and frequently change cell phone numbers. Rachel Finninger, a model which walks runway series for huge brands such as for instance Dior, Gucci , and Calvin Klein, intends to make use of Swipecast mostly for its social aspect. “everything I really love about Swipecast usually it’s not just about scheduling activities,” she explained. “You can use Swipecast to remain in push using group we see on preset.”

This public breakthrough aspect should help designs that aren’t just as Instagram-famous as rest in the industry. “For the girls not just big on social media optimisation, Swipecast is another chance for them to showcase their particular collection,” said Kaia Kongsli, a model exactly who works on the advertising group of Swipecast. “Maybe they don’t need many supporters, but our very own system may help brands be found by photographers they mightn’t make use of normally.” Framework from a compact place that simply don’t get access to huge firms can add photographs throughout the application and hope for a serendipitous relationship. The application let owners to sift models by her ethnicity, specifications, mane and eye design, area, as well amount of Instagram enthusiasts they already have. Swipecast’s learn supply still has the curated databases of workers such “Top Runway items” or “Top recreations physical fitness sizes.”

The application have established at a great occasion, due to the fact modeling business moves farther along toward discovering latest and unique face. However, Fitzpatrick helps it be evident that Swipecast is absolutely not searching substitute organizations — it is simply catering to some other industry opportunity. “It’s not just the current sector we’re seeking. Actually an industry that does not exist,” revealed Fitzpatrick. To enhance their program, he is concentrating to begin with on towns certainly not known for their trend action. Jacksonville, Fla., one example is, offers photographers or stores who does benefit from finding nearby versions for fast jobs. In addition, he intends to spread the application to places wherein systems truly are derived from, particularly Brazil and Scandinavia. While it’sn’t nevertheless very clear whether these supplementary opportunities will posses treasures, truly exciting to check out just where Swipecast will go.

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* Categories (if the blog > 1 category - then just links to the categories)
* Links - links from the database
* Feeds - link to the rss feed of this page
2.
Pages with posts
- Blog title
- Blog description (if any)
- The body of the post
- Pictures if you have * 1
- Comments (all in full)
- Link to the form for posting a comment * 2
- Right column
* Archives (here X last entries excluding this and in the category in which this post is located)
* Categories (if the blog > 1 category - then just links to the categories)
* Links - links from the database.
For each post, it makes sense to store post _ id = > link _ id one to many.
It will be possible to put
Links to relevant posts on similar topics.
THINK ABOUT THIS BLOCK.
3.
Pages with archives
- Just stupid.
13.07.2007
My first post
Refren
Permalink | email this post | Comments (0) | Add Comment
10.07.2007
and so on
If there were no messages for the date - we do not output.
Set X - the number of days of output on one page (the number of posts do not count)
* 1
block of images of 2 types - either vertically or horizontally (by default)
vertically: - picture
text
text
text
text
horizontally: set X - number of images in the string
text
text
text
text
the ability to set alt for each image, one alt for all images,
group of words through; which randomly spread out for pictures
for the white version - all this is set by a person
for gray - in X% of the images in alt, put the title in X% of the 5 most popular words in the title and body of the letter.
The most popular ones are found.
Pictures are unlimited for each post.
When a picture is entered into the database, a pedestal is created for it.
2 options:
- Hard set XxX pixels - then resize.... and cut the middle.
- The maximum width / height is set - then just resize the maximum side to the specified value
By default, all images are clickable - open in a new window, but it should be possible to set an URL for one or all images.
ie. the url can be different for each picture - for example, the big ones are made automatically small but when you click not a big picture and url.
* 2
on the page display the LAST page with comments + form for posting.
Standard - name, soap, text - no registrations.
Only yes-no
htmlspecialchars (); strip _ tags (); etc.
Next, when you visit the page, generate a number in the session that encoded javascript stuffed into a cookie.
When posting if $_ SESSION [secret _ key]
$_ COOKIE [secret _ key]
In the admin panel, set the number of comments per page
ALL PAGES .html
The internal part of the blog consists of:
Let 's take WordPress as a basis
http: / / new.makemerich.us / wp / wp-admin / admin / admin
and bloghoster
http: / / new.makemerich.us / bh / admin / admin.php admin / admin
1.
Authorization page - standard login and password * 1
After logging in, we read which blogs the user has access to.
Upstairs where My new WordPress MU SiteMy new WordPress MU Site - leave except
that View site » change to manage - go to the page where you can select several blogs at once.
2.
Home page - Quick Statistics from the bloghoster - if one blog is selected (at the top) then one blog - if all then for all
3.
Managing Blogs
3.1.
Categories (for blog) - here everything is simple - to finish / delete / change.
Default is General.
Can't be removed.
When deleting a category, change the blogs
who are using it on the general.
A blog can have several categories.
3.2.
Managing Blogs
1st block - Search blog by name; id; url; categories - naturally url and name search LIKE% $name%; button display all.
+ Sort by category; id; date of creation; date of last modification (comment / article); date of last post;
2nd block - the result of the work of the first
list of blogs
ID; name (link to edit in new window 3.3); Url; Registered date; Last Updated (date of last modification (comment / article)); Users (here is a list of users who have
powers to do something in the blog) one big link to edit users for the blog 4.2; Actions (View-open in a new window; Edit-page editing blog 3.3.; Suspend (when you click on
this button comes out popup where you need to lead url where will redirectizzo ALL traffic from the blog e-but through .htaccess); Delete - delete the blog and ALL that is associated with it
3rd block - adding a new blog - just a button that leads to page 3.3
3.3.
Editing / Adding a blog - the form is the same so that the page is one in the style of http: / / new.makemerich.us / wp / wp-admin / wpmu-blogs.php? action = editblog & id = 1
URL - blog url
Title - title
Description - description
Admin Email
Registered - Default NOW ()
Ftp Host
Ftp Login
Ftp Password --- here everything is clear - where to upload a blog
Ftp Path
Allow comment 1 / 0
Posts on main page - number of last posts on main page (default 5)
Post on archives page - number of entries per page in archives (default 10)
Blog categories (3.1) - one blog can be assigned several categories.
Blog users (4.1) - here everything is the same as in the Blog Users block - only adding is not necessary - and the ability to choose from existing (4.1)
Template - choose a template from 3.4
+ all X listed in 'External part of blog consists of'
3.4.
Templates management http: / / new.makemerich.us / bh / admin / admin _ templates.php
- do it the same way
- http: / / new.makemerich.us / bh / admin / admin _ templates.php? task = edit & t _ id = 2 there are only 3 pages main page, post page, archive page
4.
User management
4.1.
http: / / new.makemerich.us / wp / wp-admin / wpmu-users.php all the same
The user can: (tick what)
- Add a new article to the blog
- Edit / edit an article in the blog
- Delete an article in the blog
- Add a comment to the article
- Edit comment in article
- Delete comment in article
- Add / Edit / Delete categories (if there are posts in this category, you need to ask which category to transfer them.
And if she stayed
only one category, then remove it lower)
- Add / Edit / Delete links on main page / pages with posts
- View blog statistics
- Add / Edit / Delete template for blog
Make it better at Ajax.
ie the name of the blog in when changing automatically change the checkboxes (disappear or added) when you click on the checkbox, it is written in the database
User names are unique globally, not for a blog.
Accordingly, when the user enters the admin panel, only blogs and functions that are assigned to it are available to him.
Admin.
In one blog, he can only edit an article, and in another add for example.
The system is a multiblog engine, with global administration of all blogs and with a system of poster accounts that have access to one
or several blogs (or even categories in blogs) and have different features.
4.1.
There is an admin - who can do everything
5.
Article Management
5.1.
Categories (for the article) - here everything is simple - to finish / delete / change.
Default is General.
Can't be removed.
When deleting a category, change the articles
who are using it on the general.
One article can have several categories.
5.2.
http: / / new.makemerich.us / wp / wp-admin / post-new.php - that 's it
- Optional excerpt, custom fields, post password, post slug - remove
- After the title add a refrain, it may or may not be - these are 2-3 sentences briefly characterizing the post.
- Сategories - select checkmarks from existing (5.1)
- Post status by default opened and published
- Upload - it should be divided into
- upload images
* press the button - the form with the selection of files comes out (i.e. you can select several)
* after the choice comes out the form
Picture Alt
[d:\ pic1.jpg] [X] [] - when you press the cross this applies to all the pictures below
[d:\ pic2.jpg] [] if the script finds' # # 'in alt', for example sex # # drugs and there is a checkmark then it randomly throws 2 alt 'a
[d:\ pic3.jpg] [] (sex, drugs) for all pictures below
[Upload]
* when you press upload instead of d:\ pic1.jpg, etc. comes out the strip with loading, if everything is ok - then d:\ pic1.jpg becomes green, if there is an error, then
red. Default black
* All images automatically fall into the attached images block (make it like trackback)
[pic1.jpg] [delete]
[pic2.jpg] [delete]
EVERYTHING ON AYAX WITHOUT REDOWNLOADING THE PAGE
- upload data
* press the button - the form with the selection of files comes out (i.e. you can select several)
* after the choice comes out the form
Failey
[d:\ pic1.rar]
[d:\ pic2.rar]
[d:\ pic3.rar]
[Upload]
* when you press upload instead of d:\ pic1.rar, etc. comes out the strip with loading, if everything is ok - then d:\ rar becomes green, if there is an error, then
red. Default black
* All images automatically fall into the attached files block (make it like trackback)
[pic1.rar] [delete]
[pic2.rar] [delete]
+ they automatically get into the visual editor in the form of
EVERYTHING ON AYAX WITHOUT REDOWNLOADING THE PAGE
5.3.
Articles management http: / / new.makemerich.us / wp / wp-admin / edit.php? cat = 1
- comments get out of here
- make one search form
* search phrase: [] - search search in title, refren, body if empty but search ALL
* search month: [select month] - only those months with years where there are articles. by default select month = 0, i.e. do not take into account
* search category: [select category] - categories from 5.1. by default select category = 0, i.e. do not take into account
* search status [all] - here the choice [posted] [not approved]
* search comments status [all] - here the choice [posted] [not approved] - not approved - the same for comments
* per page [10] - [20] [50] [100]
- view transfer to Hello world!. When you click, the lines are moved apart (if more than one item is found), or just add a block there
DOWNLOAD the article well and at the bottom close, the line collapses.
Here is the type http: / / www.dustindiaz.com / basement / block-toggle.html
only need to load the contents when pressed and not load immediately.
- when you click on comments as well as on view - open the same block as presented on the page
- instead of view status. if not apptoved, then through
[approve] - when you click on ajax without reloading the page, everything changes.
5.4.
Comments management http: / / new.makemerich.us / wp / wp-admin / edit-comments.php
- still do only Awaiting Moderation checkbox to search. if search empty then look for all
You need to make sure that the interface is only a layer, i.e. you need an API to add automatic posts to blogs, and with an array of pictures, etc.
Think about how to make it more comfortable.
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LiveJournal's popularity declined over time due to the rise of other social media platforms and changes in user behavior.

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Content: Blog Engineering The road to Gitaly v1.0 (aka, why GitLab doesn't require NFS for storing Git data anymore)
September 12, 2018
5 min read

The road to Gitaly v1.0 (aka, why GitLab doesn't require NFS for storing Git data anymore)

How we went from vertical to horizontal scaling without depending on NFS by creating our own Git RPC service.

In the early days of GitLab.com, most of the application, including Rails worker processes, Sidekiq background processes, and Git storage, all ran on a single server. A single server is easy to deploy to and maintain. The same structure is what most smaller GitLab instances still use for their self-managed Omnibus installation. Scaling is done vertically, meaning; adding more RAM, CPU, and disk space.

Moving from vertical to horizontal scaling

Soon we ran out of options to continue scaling the system vertically, and we had to move to scaling horizontally by adding new servers. To have the repositories available on all the nodes, NFS (Network File System) was used to mount these to each application server and background workers. NFS is a well-known technology for sharing file systems across a network. For each server, each storage node needed to be mounted. The advantage: GitLab.com could keep adding more servers and scale. However NFS had multiple disadvantages too: the visibility is decreased to what type of file system operation is performed. Even worse, one NFS storage node's outage impacted the whole site, and took the whole site down. On the other hand, Git operations can be quite CPU/IOPS intensive too, so we began a balancing act between adding more nodes, and thus reducing reliability, versus scaling nodes vertically.

Considering NFS alternatives

Over two years ago, we started to look for alternatives. One of the first ideas was to remove the dependency on NFS with Ceph. Ceph is a distributed file system that was meant to replace NFS in an architecture like ours. Like NFS, this would solve our scaling problem on the system level, meaning that little to no changes would be required to GitLab as an application. However, running a Ceph cluster in the cloud didn't have the performance characteristics that were required. Briefly we flirted with the idea of moving away from the cloud, but this would have had major implications for our own infrastructure team, and given that many of our customers do run in the cloud, we decided to stay in the cloud.

Introducing Gitaly

So it was clear that the application needed to be redesigned, and a new service would be introduced to handle all Git requests. We named it Gitaly.

The planned architecture at the project start

As the diagram shows, the new Git server would have a number of distinct clients. To make sure the protocol for the server and its clients is well defined, Protocol Buffers was used. The client calls are handled by leveraging gRPC. Combined, they allowed us to iteratively add RPCs and move away from NFS, in favor of an HTTP boundary. With the technologies chosen, the migration started. The ultimate goal: v1.0, meaning no disk access was required to the Git storage nodes for GitLab.com.

Shipping such an architectural change should not influence the performance, nor the stability of the self-managed installations of GitLab, so for each RPC a feature flag gated the use of it. When the RPC had gone through a series of tests on both correctness and performance impact, the gate was removed. To determine stability we used Prometheus for monitoring and the ELK stack for sifting through massive numbers of structured log messages.

The server was written in Go, while the application is a large Rails monolith. Rails had a great amount of code that was still very valuable. This code got extracted to the lib/gitlab/git directory, allowing easier vendoring. The idea was to start a sidecar next to the Go server, reusing the old code. About once a week the code would be re-vendored. This allowed Ruby developers on other teams to write code once, and ship it. Bonus points could be earned if the boilerplate code was written to call the same function in Ruby!

The new service wasn't all sunshine and rainbows though, at times it felt like the improved visibility was hurting our ability to ship. For example, it became clear that the illusion of an attached disk created N + 1 problems. And even though this is a well-known problem in Ruby on Rails, the tools to combat it are all tailored toward using it with ActiveRecord, Rails' ORM.

Nearing v1.0

With each RPC introduced, v1.0 was getting closer and closer. But how could we be sure everything was migrated before unmounting all NFS mount points? A trip switch got introduced, guarding the details required to get to the full path of each repository. Without this data there was no way to execute any Git operation through NFS. Luckily, the trip switch never went off, so now it was clear NFS wasn't being used. The next step was unmounting on our staging environment! Again, this was very uneventful. Leaving the volumes unmounted for a full week, and not seeing any indication of unexpected errors, the logical next step was our production instance.

Days later we started rolling out these changes to production: first the background workers were unmounted, than we moved onto higher impact services. At the end of the day, all drives were unmounted without customer impact.

What's next?

So, where is this v1.0 tag? We didn't tag it, and I don't think we will. v1.0 is a state for our Git infrastructure, and a goal for the team, rather than the code base. That being said, the next mental goal is allowing all customers to run without NFS. At the time of writing, some features like administrative tasks, aren't using Gitaly just yet. These are slated for v1.1, and our next objective.

Want to know more about our Gitaly journey? Read about how we're making your Git data highly available with Praefect and how a fix in Go 1.9 sped up our Gitaly service by 30x.

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The emergence of Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram contributed to LiveJournal's decline as users migrated to these platforms.

The platform's user interface and features became less competitive, leading to declining user engagement.

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Content: In the era of digital news, news aggregation applications have become increasingly popular as they cater to the needs of users who want to stay informed and up to date.
Since people consume news from different sources, accessing individual websites or using multiple apps is a challenge.
News aggregators solve this problem by collecting content from different publishers and presenting it on a single, easy-to-use interface.
These apps tailor news feeds to personal preferences, enabling users to keep information about them up to date and discover new content.
Flipboard is one of the most successful news aggregation apps on the market, known for its visually appealing magazine-style layout and personalised content curation.
In this article, we will analyze the main features and success factors of Flipboard and provide comprehensive guidance on how to build a news aggregation app like Flipboard on the web, Android, and iOS platforms.
Analyze Flipboard ’ s key features and success factors
Flipboard has gained huge popularity for its unique way of aggregating news and its emphasis on pleasant user experiences.
Understanding its characteristics and success factors can provide insight into what a successful news aggregation app is:
Content curation and personalization: Flipboard curates content from a wide range of publishers and social media platforms.
Users can focus on a specific topic, publisher, or influencer to create a personalized experience tailored to their interests.
Visual appeal: One of Flipboard ’ s salient features is its magazine-like design, which is visually appealing and easy to navigate.
This design approach enhances the user experience and makes them more willing to explore content.
Attention to the details of user interface design is a key factor in the success of the application.
Social sharing: Users can easily share articles or entire magazines with friends or directly on social media platforms.
This feature increases the coverage of the application and encourages users to participate.
Read offline: Flipboard allows users to save content for offline reading, ensuring they can read news and articles without an internet connection.
Push notifications: Users can receive notifications about breaking news, important updates or new content based on their interests, provide real-time information and keep users engaged.
Monetization: Flipboard effectively monetizes the platform by displaying ads, sponsoring content, and offering subscription plans.
However, this monetization approach does not come at the expense of the user experience.
User acquisition and retention: Flipboard employs both organic and inorganic user acquisition strategies, including app store optimization, campaigns, and partnerships with publishers.
The app ’ s personalized content and intuitive design ensure high retention.
Identify the unique value proposition and target audience for your news aggregation app
Before you start developing a news aggregation app, it ’ s critical to define its unique value proposition (UVP) and target audience.
A strong UVP can help your app stand out in a competitive market and attract users who may be involved with your platform.
Here are some steps to help you define your app ’ s UVP and target audience:
1.
Conduct market research: Analyze the news aggregation application market, including major players, trends and user needs.
Find out what market gaps your application can fill, or find opportunities to improve existing solutions.
This research will enable you to customize your app based on the preferences and expectations of your target users.
2.
Identify your target audience: Your target audience may include those who want to learn about a particular industry, niche market or topic, or those who are looking for a convenient and enjoyable way to consume news.
Define your target audience and segment them based on demographic, geographic, and psychological factors.
3.
Create user roles: Develop user roles that represent your ideal customer.
These roles should include details such as user preferences, pain points, and usage patterns.
Use these roles to make informed decisions about the functionality, design, and marketing strategy of your app.
4.
Develop your unique value proposition: Use the insights gained from market research and user roles to create a compelling UVP that clearly communicates the benefits of using your app over your competitors.
Make sure your UVP is aligned with the needs and preferences of your target audience to improve user acquisition and retention.
By defining a strong and unique value proposition and understanding your target audience, you can create a news aggregation app that meets user needs and stands out in the market.
Create application blueprints
Before entering the development process, it is critical to create a blueprint or roadmap for your news aggregation application that outlines its basic features, components, and user processes.
The program will serve as a foundation for the development of your application and allow your team to work more effectively with a clear understanding of the final product.
The following steps will help you create an effective blueprint:
1.
Identify and list the key features and components you want in your news aggregation app, such as personalized content curation, user authentication, social sharing, offline reading, push notifications, and search capabilities.
2.
Break your application down into smaller components and modules to make it scalable and adaptable to future changes and improvements.
This will allow you to prioritize key aspects in the development process and ensure that each feature gets the necessary attention.
3.
Prepare detailed user flowcharts for different scenarios and features, illustrating the user ’ s journey as they interact with your app.
Understanding these processes will help you design a seamless and intuitive user experience.
4.
Create wireframes and mockups to visualize the application ’ s interface, showing the layout of each screen, its elements, and how users interact with it.
This process will help you plan UI / UX design more effectively.
5.
Choose the right technology stack for your application, taking into account factors such as performance, scalability, speed of development, and the preferences of your target audience.
If you choose a no-code platform, such as AppMaster, you can further simplify the development process and gain access to various technologies through a comprehensive approach.
Once you have established a practical blueprint for your news aggregator app, you can start developing it with a clear understanding of the structure and goals of your app.
Application Backend Development: Data Model, Business Process, API Integration, and Scalability
A strong background architecture is the foundation for the smooth operation of a news aggregator application as it is responsible for collecting, organizing, and delivering content from different sources.
This section outlines key aspects of back-end development to ensure scalability, high performance, and seamless integration with third-party APIs.
Data model
A data model defines the structure and relationships of various types of data in your application.
By creating a well-organized data model, you can improve the performance of your application, minimize redundancy, and ensure easy retrieval of relevant content.
Some of the key data models to consider in a news aggregator application include:
• Used to store user certificates, preferences and custom user profiles.
Article metadata that captures information such as title, author, publication date, source URL, and thumbnail.
• Source or publisher information, including details such as publisher name, logo and website.
• User interaction, such as saving articles, following sources, and sharing history.
Business Process
Ensuring efficient business processes will give your application an edge in terms of user experience consistency, responsiveness, and content delivery. These include:
• Planning and personalization mechanisms to display relevant content based on user preferences and interests.
• Implement robust text search algorithms and indexing strategies to facilitate fast and relevant search results.
• User authentication and authorization processes to ensure the safe use of applications.
• Optimize content acquisition and caching mechanisms to minimize latency and save device resources.
API Integration
Integrating third-party APIs allows your app to collect real-time news articles and media content from a variety of sources.
Carefully evaluate your API options, taking into account factors such as data quality, cost, response time, and ease of integration.
When integrating the API, make sure that:
• Gracefully handle data inconsistencies and errors to provide a consistent user experience in cases where information is missing or outdated.
• Cache API responses where possible to save bandwidth and minimize server load.
• Implement concurrency management and request rate limits to avoid overburdening content providers ’ APIs.
Scalability
In order to handle the growing number of users and increasing content, the backend of your news aggregator application must be scalable.
You can do this by adopting stateless back-end applications, using microservices architectures, and leveraging containerized technologies like Docker.
Choosing a platform like AppMaster.io is advantageous because it can generate scalable backend applications made with Go (Golang) for high performance even when the workload is heavy.
UI / UX design for an engaging user experience
A visually appealing, user-friendly, engaging interface is critical to the success of a news aggregator app.
Users should be able to easily navigate the app, discover new content, and smoothly interact with its features.
The following points will help you make a great UI / UX design:
Design principles and coherence
Adopting design principles such as simplicity, intuition, and visual hierarchy will ensure that users can easily navigate and interact with your app.
Also, keep consistent design elements such as colors, typography, and icons to create a unified look and feel in your app.
Content display
Present content in a visually appealing, clutter-free way that encourages users to engage.
You can try different content presentation styles, such as card-based designs, grid layouts, or similar magazine views, to find the way that best suits your target audience.
Intuitive navigation
Carefully design your app ’ s navigation patterns to ensure that users can effortlessly access the content or features they want.
Implement clear and concise labels, easy-to-understand icons and well-positioned menus to create an intuitive navigation flow.
Personalization
A personalized user experience will help your app stand out and keep users engaged.
Allows users to customize their feeds, follow topics, sources or influential accounts, and even adjust their preferred reading settings to create a truly customized experience.
Responsive Design
Responsive design ensures that your app ’ s interface has the proper look and functionality across different devices and screen sizes.
This is critical to delivering a seamless experience across the web, Android and iOS platforms.
By focusing on these aspects when designing your news aggregator app, you will be well placed to create an engaging and user-friendly experience that drives user engagement and satisfaction.
Development process: Build your app for the web, Android and iOS using No-Code platform
Creating a news aggregator app that runs on the web, Android, and iOS like Flipboard has never been easier, thanks to AppMaster.iono-code development platform No-codelow-code development tools that enable you to quickly develop functional and attractive applications that can be up to 10x faster and 3x more cost-effective than traditional development methods.
Below, you will see the step-by-step process of developing an app using an app building platform such as AppMaster.io:
1.
Set up your projects: First, create separate projects within the platform for your web pages, Android and iOS apps.
This will help you more effectively manage different aspects of the development process for each platform.
2.
Design Data Model: Use the platform ’ s visualization tools to define a data model or database schema for your application.
This involves creating tables, specifying the relationships between them, and indexing for efficient data storage and retrieval.
For a news aggregation application, your data model may include users, news items, categories, feeds, and others.
3.
Define business logic: With AppMaster.io, you can use a visual business process (BP) designer to define the business logic of your application, such as data retrieval, processing and storage for each platform.
After creating the required process, you can add the necessary elements, such as user authentication, content management, and push notification capabilities.
4.
Design User Interface (UI) Components: Use the platform ’ s drag-and-drop interface to build the UI components of your application to make them look good and provide a smooth user experience on the web, Android, and iOS devices.
If required, you can customize the style, layout and individual components to fit your brand image and overall design.
5.
Integrate APIs and services: Connect your app to third-party APIs and services, get news content from a variety of sources, and take advantage of other features such as social sharing, analytics, and advertising.
Take advantage of AppMaster.io ’ s built-in capabilities to seamlessly integrate these APIs into your application ’ s architecture.
6.
Release the application: Once the blueprint for your application is complete, AppMaster.io generates the source code for the application, compiles it, runs tests, and deploys it to the cloud.
Backend apps use Go (Golang), web apps use Vue3 framework and JS / TS build, while mobile apps take advantage of Kotlin and Android ’ s Jetpack Compose, and iOS ’ s SwiftUI
By following these steps, you ’ ll have a full-featured, visually appealing news aggregator app for the Web, Android, and iOS that ’ s built on a solid foundation and ready to be further optimized and improved.
Integration of third-party APIs and services
The main purpose of your news aggregator app is to extract content from a variety of news sources and bring it together in a user-friendly format.
To achieve this, you will need to integrate third-party APIs and services, which may include:
News API: There are several APIs that provide content from a variety of news sources, including global, regional, and niche media.
Examples include News API, Google News, Bing News, Aylien News, and G2 Crowd.
Evaluate the functionality, price, and compatibility of each API with your application, and select the one that best meets your needs.
Content orchestration and NLP APIs: To provide personalized news feeds, you can incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) APIs such as IBM Watson, OpenAI or Wit.ai.
These APIs can help analyze, categorize, and curate content based on user preferences, as well as identify trending articles, perform sentiment analysis, and extract entities or keywords.
• Social Media API: Integrate your app with popular social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn, enabling users to share their favorite articles and discover news from their networks.
This can also help increase user engagement, drive organic growth, and gather information about audience interests and online behavior.
• Advertising and monetization: You can use advertising platforms such as Google AdMob, Facebook Audience Network, or AppLovin to display ads in your news aggregator app.
In-app purchases and subscriptions can also be enabled for premium content or ad-free experiences, which requires integration with payment providers such as Stripe, Paypal or Google Pay.
Analytics APIs: To track user engagement, monitor application performance, and gather insights for data-driven improvements, integrate analytics APIs such as Google Analytics, Firebase or Amplitude to provide valuable data.
Before integrating different APIs and services into your application, make sure to evaluate and compare them as they may require varying levels of technical capability, maintenance, and resources.
Test, launch and maintain your news aggregator app
Before releasing your news aggregator app to the public, it ’ s critical to test and fine-tune it to provide the best possible user experience.
Here are the questions you should consider during the testing, startup, and maintenance phases:
Testing.
Verify that your app functions correctly across a variety of devices, browsers, operating systems, and screen sizes.
Ensure seamless application installation, onboarding, navigation, search, sharing and other functions.
Learn from any mistakes, make improvements, and continue testing until you are satisfied with the final product.
Publish
Follow all guidelines and requirements to submit your app to the Google Play Store and Apple App Store.
Optimize your app store list with eye-catching visuals, rich descriptions, and keywords to maximize visibility, conversion, and organic downloads.
Marketing
Implement promotional strategies to increase visibility and drive installs such as social media marketing, influencer collaboration, content marketing, and targeted advertising.
Constantly optimize and adjust your tactics to maximize results and ROI.
User feedback
Gather user feedback through app reviews, social media channels, in-app surveys, and other channels.
Use this valuable information to improve and solve problems in a timely manner to win the trust and loyalty of users.
Maintenance
Keep your applications up to date with the latest technology, platform requirements, and third-party API updates.
Implement new features and improvements based on user feedback and market trends to ensure applications remain relevant and engaging.
The main revelation
Developing news aggregation apps like Flipboard provides a unique opportunity to meet the needs of users seeking personalized and engaging news consumption experiences. The success of Flipboard and similar news aggregation apps shows that there is an important market for such apps.
By following the steps highlighted in this guide, your chances of creating a successful news aggregator app greatly increase.
Let ’ s summarize the key takeaways:
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Analyze existing patterns: Research popular aggregation apps like Flipboard to understand the key features, user interfaces, and monetization strategies they adopt.
Having a clear understanding of their structure and success factors will help you design your application, incorporate what works, and innovate when necessary.
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Unique value proposition: stand out from the competition by targeting specific niche markets or offering unique features to meet the needs of the target audience.
This can help your application gain traction and become the preferred solution in a crowded market.
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Blueprint Design: Start with a thorough blueprint of your application, detailing every aspect of it, such as data model, user experience, functionality, and third-party integration.
4.
No-Code Platform: No-code leverages platforms like .io to effortlessly develop your news aggregator app for web, Android and iOS platforms.
These platforms provide all the tools and capabilities necessary to create highly scalable, functional and visually appealing applications while also saving time and effort. AppMaster
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Third-party APIs and services: News aggregator applications require reliable sources of updated news content.
By integrating third-party APIs and services, you can ensure that your app delivers accurate, fresh, and diverse content to your users.
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UI / UX Design: The success of your news aggregation app depends largely on how user-friendly and visually appealing it is.
Focus on creating a clean, modern design that delivers a pleasant user experience across all platform versions.
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Test, launch, and maintain: Strictly test your application to make sure it is error free, secure, and performs optimally on a variety of devices.
Once launched, prioritize regular updates and maintenance to keep your app up to date and reflect your users ’ changing preferences.
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Marketing and monetization: Develop a comprehensive marketing strategy that leverages various channels to promote your news aggregation app.
Explore different monetization options such as in-app advertising, premium subscriptions, and partnerships with news providers while maintaining balance without compromising the user experience.
By following these guidelines, you can create a highly engaging and successful news aggregation app like Flipboard, offering users a personalized and efficient way to stay informed.
With the right mix of features, content, design, and marketing strategy, your app can attract a user base and become a prominent player in the news aggregator market.
Keep in mind that persistence and continuous improvement are key to long-term success, so keep improving your app based on user feedback and emerging trends.

LiveJournal's history highlights the tech industry's need for ongoing development, innovation, and adaptation to changing user needs.

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Content: Rewrite this title: Reddit thrives from Digg v4 disaster
Next article will help you: Reddit is thriving from the Digg v4 disaster
Since the launch of Digg ’ s latest version, v4, last week, the less warm reception has caused a massive influx of traffic to their competitor – Reddit.
Reddit was launched less than a year after Digg ’ s launch, and it wasn ’ t very popular, but it had very loyal users.
However, starting Sunday night, the four-person team saw an increase in new users, unique items, and the number of page views in staggering numbers.
Chief programmer, Chris Slaw, stated that unique page views alone have increased by 50% – averaging around 900,000 per day since Monday morning.
They also report between 13 and 14 million total page views per day.
Approximately 25% of the site ’ s visitors were people who signed up for the site and became “junior editors ” as Chris calls them on the site.
Blog site.
As their numbers grew so fast, Reddit employees were surprised that the site didn ’ t crash.
Their blog also says that they work most days within the site ’ s peak capacity and that they “could never have survived such an unexpected surge. ”
Evelyn Rosley of Tech Crunch spoke with Slough and says they are currently working on new features to keep Redditors happy and to make sure the site can maintain its new and larger user base, including a redesigned user interface.

LiveJournal's unique features led to early success, but its lack of adaptation and innovation caused its decline.

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Postmarks

What is Postmarks? #

I'm finally sharing my project Postmarks, a single-user bookmarking website designed to be easily hosted on Glitch.

Postmarks aims to provide a few different functions. Those functions are:

  1. Tag-indexed bookmarking
  2. ActivityPub publishing (soon to be optional!)
  3. Simple commenting, also powered by ActivityPub (also optional)

It's inspired by a number of websites I've loved over the years, including del.icio.us, Google Reader, and Branch.

You can see a basic demo of the site at postmarks.glitch.me, or an example of an instance with a lot of bookmarks in it at silly-ten-microceratops.glitch.me/.

Tag-indexed bookmarking #

If you're at all familiar with del.icio.us or Pinboard, you should hopefully be comfortable with the basics of using Postmarks to store bookmarks. If you're not already familiar, the idea is to store a collection of URLs along with some associated, browsable data—a customizable page title; a "description" field for summaries, notes or excerpts; a list of category "tags"—for your own reference over time and/or to share with other people.

On the centralized bookmarking sites of yore, you'd create an account and exist along with a collection of other people, meaning there were some lightweight community features like seeing who else bookmarked a given URL, seeing a public feed of all bookmarks for a given tag, or even "following" users. The Postmarks site itself is made to operate for one user, but the goal is to make setting one up as easy as possible so a single person can set up many of them for different purposes or keep all their bookmarks in one place and use the tagging features to make different kinds of things easily browseable.

ActivityPub publishing #

Postmarks, by default, also publishes all new bookmarks via the ActivityPub protocol, which means that people on web applications like Mastodon can "follow" your site in their timelines and lists and see new posts as you make them. And in turn, you can follow other people—other Postmarks users, or users on Mastodon, FireFish, or other text-based ActivityPub applications—and the links they share will show up on your Network page, with an easy way to grab any link you see and bookmark it for yourself.

Simple commenting, also powered by ActivityPub #

Once we've got bookmark posts showing up in Mastodon, it would be a shame if we didn't take advantage of that, right? Postmarks listens for incoming replies to its posts and absorbs them as "comments", which by default are unpublished/only visible to the admin when editing a bookmark. Controls are available at the site-wide level, and on individual bookmarks, to both auto-publish comments and just ignore them entirely.

You own your instance #

Postmarks isn't as complicated a piece of software as Mastodon! At the very least, you should feel welcome and empowered to edit the CSS to set your own color scheme, fonts, and so forth. If you're feeling more adventurous, you can reshape the Handlebars templates entirely in the src/pages directory. Or fork the project entirely and write new features from scratch! I'd love to accept general improvements on the frontend experience especially; feel free to open issues or submit pull requests on the Github repo.

A work in progress #

I've got a whole future ideas document included in the default bookmarks for the site, but to summarize I'd like to make Postmarks a fully self-sufficient platform, supporting all of its own features without ever involving a Mastodon or other microblogging platform. I'd also like to find ways to increase the usability of the site while keeping it compact, lightweight, and able to run on a broad variety of hosting platforms. I'd also like to see support for other indie web concepts, whether that's Micropub, Webmentions, or anything else I can harness to make Postmarks really useful to the people who want it!

Acknowledgements #

Thank you to Darius, Mouse, Ben, Anil, Casey, and everyone else who has inspired me, advised me, or lent a hand to Postmarks. (The more complete version is in the project README!) It's been fun to learn all the things required to make this platform come into existence and I hope to keep improving it and sharing bookmarks for a long time to come.