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```clojure

(defn foo-bar-baz [n]

(cond

(zero? (mod n 15)) "foobarbaz"

(zero? (mod n 3)) "foo"

(zero? (mod n 5)) "bar"

:else (str n)))

(doseq [n (range 1 101)]

(println (foo-bar-baz n))) ```

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Well hello from the UK - hope this goes well! 

I love comments like this. We worked really hard to make this simple, and there are lots of nice little touches in the UI. Keep coming back, we're moving really fast, a little slower now that there are users. 

So clean. So lean. Bravo DW! A fan since 2003

Naveen it goes the other way, we are not a feed reader, we generate feeds. 

This is a writing surface. 

But everything goes out via RSS and OPML (still working out some glitchiness there).

From there all kinds of readers can be created that take advantage the structure of posts here.

Every reply to a post is a full peer of the thing it's replying to. When people (devs) see how that works, they'll get 100 ideas for new products. If they don't I will keep going until they do.

We had to do that with podcasting, no one believed it could do what it did. Eventually they did and thus we got a market for podcast clients. 

Think of it as a recording studio for text. 

We speak the same language. I want all the social networks to support the same text that the web specifies. I wrote a spec for that called textcasting. We support almost everything it specifies (no enclosures, yet). 

https://textcasting.org/

You don't find people to follow here. We're just getting started. You do not have to set up an instance. Give a few more months of a bootstrap before all that stuff exists, and the hope is I won't have to provide it. I'll keep building until other developers see that they could be part of this too. Also I don't think all social networks have to behave like Twitter. I feel very strongly about that. They did a lot of things that hurt the web. I want to undo the damage finally get out of the grip of the billionaires.

 Exciting times! Looking forward to seeing what RSS can do in this space

So...how is this supposed to work? How do I find people to follow? Do I have to set up an instance on my own server?

Yay, it's here!  Let's see what this can do.

Very exciting - long live the open web. 

Aside from the email going to spam signup was delightfully swift. This project is interesting to me because I’ve been craving RSS, Newsnet, text-interfaces, terminals and Lynx. I miss the engagement that text has, and hate the distractions of pop-ups and pictures and suggestions to distract from actual content. Thank you for making a demo I can join and test, I’d love to roll something of my own soon. 

excited to try this and to see some innovation with rss

looking forward to connecting my blog's feed up in here as well to see how that goes

This is really nifty, Dave.

You've been describing it and my brain just wasn't grokking the reply aspect, now I get it. 🙏🏼

WordLand is designed to work with WordPress. This is a similar idea but without WordPress, entirely based on feeds and APIs. 

I didn't see a path for WordLand to be a success, but it's not going anywhere people can use it, and if the WordPress community discovers it and starts using it, then it might be worth connecting up to this system. 

I would actually prefer at this point that WordPress hook up to this network. I expect they will do so, because there are no hurdles in the way, they don't have character limits, and support all the text features of the web. Other services which do limit what people can type will have to relax their limits before it makes sense to connect here. 

I take it back -- we do have user docs.

Heh you beat me to it. ;-)

You have to switch into markdown mode, see the M with the downarrow icon. Then your text will be interpreted as Markdown. 

Suggest you select all, copy, delete, switch to markdown mode, paste and switch back to wizzy mode. 

Oh, I guess you have to use the toolbar to do it? Let's try that again.

• Bold
• Italic
• Link

Let's do a little Markdown here; **bold**, *italic*, and a [link](https://fahrni.me)!

Howard we haven't done the docs yet. We're mainly focused now on supporting developers, this is an open source project to seed a new kind of social network, based entirely on open formats and protocols that are widely used on the web. Think of this as playing the role that MacWrite played in bootstrapping software development on the Mac. People needed something to play with to get an idea of how to copy it. 

Maybe this blogpost from Dave might help?

Aloha! Where is the explanation of how this works?

Et l’interface utilisateur sera multilingue?

Mi piace molto

Long time reader of Scripting News, excited to see where you take this!