By sbr
Changelog: v0.6.0 The observant amongst you, may have noticed that it's been a couple of weeks since I've released a Changelog. Life caught up with me with my kids return from their holiday away, while school has not yet started again. As a result I've likely...
By sbr
Changelog: v0.5.0 Weighing Words When I first created tuhat, I had a straightforward idea. Short-form content was leading to a degradation of humanity’s conversations: directly, through our inability to write full sentences, and indirectly, through how and what we were writing being co-opted by outside pressures. Instead of taking the time to consider ideas, people had hot takes. Instead of writing a thoughtful reply, you got...
Changelog: v0.4.0 Page Layouts There are new layouts. I wanted to replicate the feel of a broadsheet newspaper without being visually over the top or making page loads slower. This is most obvious on the front page of tuhat, but the layouts are also available...
Changelog: v0.3.0 Making these changelogs a little more formal going forward. Their cadence will slow as tuhat approaches feature completion; less frequent updates, but more considered ones. Moderation Tuhat has always believed in free speech, but that doesn't mean we're obligated to amplify every voice equally. This release introduces a moderation framework that tries to balance openness with accountability. You can now...
Tending the tree A week ago I wrote about leaving Substack and planting something smaller in its place. I leaned on the image of a tree, a thing you put in the ground and then tend, as against the clearing-and-paving logic of the platforms I was trying to walk away from. The risk of publishing a metaphor like that is that you then have to live inside it, and a planted tree is never finished. It needs tending. Tending is...
The pros and cons of diy'ing my own front door Tl;DR If you've been seeing the above over the last ~12 hours, you shouldn't anymore. Sorry about the mess, should be smooth sailing from now. The Full story. The pitch sounds simple. Put a small VPS in front of...
New users Backstory I shared a bit of my story, in this post the other day, about leaving a mainstream writing platform and starting my own. I'd only used the platform in question for a few months, growing disenchanted with it and building tuhat in March, and didn't have a large number of subscribers. I cross shared the article on the previous platform as a bit of a farewell. This wasn't some slick marketing ploy; a few hours...