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Yeah, seems like most people that have taken the time to respond have said something along these lines.

I feel better about using the same look and modifying as needed in the future. I appreciate you giving your opinion, it’s helped add some confidence in this decision!

Very true, not sure if I’ll be as limited as Substack there (San, serif, slab, and so on), or if I should allow any open source font available on fonts.bunny.net. But no custom font uploads as I don’t want to deal with hosting potentially pirated content.

🤔 ok ok, interesting suggestion. I’ll play around with fonts. I will be allowing publications to set their own fonts so that might do it.

Feeling good about the dashboard, the publication theme not so much. But I think it’d take too long to redesign something to be unique.

But like you said, it will eventually diverge into its own. So I’m leaning to just ship as is and redesign later.

Thats a good point, especially since I am marketing Offprint as a “drop-in replacement for Substack” the familiarity would be very helpful at the start.

As for what I would change, I’m not entirely sure. They’ve done a really good job at designing with social interactions in mind 🤔

Designing something new and distinct, that feels like "Offprint" instead of "Substack" would take up a decent bit of time to get it feeling "right". But I feel like starting with the Substack look would allow us to evolve from a good base once we start having our own unique problems to solve (🧵 3/3)

But the main publication website is looking more like a Substack clone, how do we feel about this?

I am having a hard time internally about copying it verbatim, but designing something new and distinct would take up more time than I'm wanting to give this problem before the soft-launch (🧵 2/3)

I'm having an internal debate and would love some feedback from you all! For the most part I am pretty happy with the look and feel of the Dashboard (it feels like our own thing, but clearly inspired by Substack).

But... (continued in thread 🧵 1/3)

Hey, you beat me to it! I was just about to say the same thing. This is how our editor will work as well, markdown syntax but stored as blocks.

The ability for people to ditch Substack and other similar platforms is monetization. This is one of our primary goals, so we hope to be one of the first with pledges and paid subscriptions similar to Substack soon after launch!

Stay tuned!

We’re gonna aim for a soft launch with publications, articles, and branding customization by the end of the year🤞🏽so soon enough you’ll be able to write on Offprint.

Be ready, first come first serve!
Request and invite 👉🏽 offprint.app

Thanks for the mention! We’re still in development, but we do aim to be a direct replacement for Substack.

I’d definitely encourage you to request an invite and we’ll make sure to get you in on the first wave.

Really enjoyed reading the latest article by @laurenshof.online. Worth a read if you’re interested in the state of where long-form publishing is headed

It’s been amazing seeing long-form publishing really take shape across the network. Offprint’s been lucky to grow alongside so many others pushing for this future: writers owning their work, platforms connecting instead of competing.

Feels like things are finally clicking 🙌🏽

GitHub - socialdept/atp-signals: Build Reactive Signals for Bluesky's AT Protocol Firehose in Laravel Build Reactive Signals for Bluesky's AT Protocol Firehose in Laravel - socialdept/atp-signals

🎉 Initial stable release v1.0.0!

Consume real-time AT Protocol events in your Laravel application. We changed the package name a bit to keep things consistent and clear as we continue to contribute AT Protocol packages to the Laravel community.

github.com/socialdept/a...

Yes sir, will need to store images and (potentially) videos ourselves for drafts at the very least. Though we’ll probably be serving optimized media from our CDN on published content as well.

Don’t want to waste others bandwidth on giant blobs loading on mobile.

Appreciate the kind words 🙇🏽‍♂️

Some of you were excited for the Laravel package, this is not the whole thing I was working on. Instead, I decided to separate functionality into smaller bites.

This is the first package we're releasing. Signal watches for specific Firehose events and let's you react to them as needed.

Just finished implementing image grids! Now you can add up to 6 images in a grid layout, which is also customizable. Not sure how many I'll allow in a single document since bandwidth and storage unfortunately doesn't grow on trees.

Don't forget to:
🎟️ Request an invite → offprint.app

Another one. This one is a showcase of the Bluesky @mentions I've implemented into the Offprint editor. You'll be able to mention anyone in the network inside your documents or articles easily, inline, and intuitively!

Still under development but don't forget to:
🎟️ Request an invite → offprint.app

I don't believe this package is ready for production yet, but I will keep working on it and will eventually open source it. So any other Laravel developers will have an easier time keeping their users cached data in sync.

Spent the last two days creating a Laravel package that can keep database models bi-directionally in sync with at proto records automatically.

In this demo, I am only pulling data from the database not at proto. I run through and update the data via pdsls.dev and you'll see the data auto-update.

Maybe this is what you’re looking for pdsls.dev/at://did:plc...

🛸 UFOs: Explore atproto lexicons Sample records and timeseries statistics for *every* collection seen in the ATmosphere.

There is! Might not be exactly what you’re looking for but UFOs my Microcosm: ufos.microcosm.blue

This app watches the firehose and shows how popular specific lexicons are.

Another day, another feature showcase. Just finished this one up today. I know I have a bunch of nerds (like me 🤓) that will need to write about their code (with examples).
This one’s for you 🫶🏽

🎟️ Request an invite → offprint.app

We’re collaborating on some stuff already 👀 We’re working on interoperability together with some other long form platforms. But one product would be interesting 🤔 who knows

Second feature showcase drop, the single image block (simple but fundamental to get this right)

We'll keep dropping sneak-peeks when we have something refined to show off!

🎫 Request an invite → offprint.app

Own your words. Own your audience. - Offprint

Don't forget to request an invite, we're still working hard on getting this out (forgive me, solo dev with full time gig) we'll start on boarding users as soon as we can!

🎫 → offprint.app

We've been working on our editor for about a month. Built from the ground up and while it was serviceable, I wanted it to feel amazing to use.

Re rebuilt it on top of a good base package, and have been working the past week nonstop to rebuild what we had. But now we're further than we were before!

You're giving me some ideas 👀