erything is powered by our Discourse forum. Write.as users get a certain email address to send to, based on their support level. Those emails show up in different Discourse group inboxes. The high-priority group also pings my personal email, just so I don’t forget it’s there. But the low-priority group won’t ever disturb me — I have to visit that inbox to see messages there. When my email hour starts, first I v...

made more progress on the app. I’m trying not to get too bogged down by a checklist of “blog commenting” functionality, and focus more on the experience of “hanging out around blogs.” That means things will be a little funky when you arrive, and maybe a little disorienting — but that’s kind of the point. I don’t want to build a sterile, Facebook-ish environment. As of last night, instead of landing in a network-wide space (the “Café”), I hav...

Some interesting posts I've discovered in these parts over the last while: Staying Informed Without Big Tech Why The Constant Need To Do...

When I started this blog, my intention was to post in this space occasionally. What occasionally meant at that time ... well, that was up...

I hadn't seen this from Matt when it first came out last month, but it hit me timely today: When tech oversteps its mandate as a too...

On some of the pinned pages on my journal, I added a "Last Updated Date" value right under the title. I did it using a span element, like...

“@NeoYokel @writeas__ @CJEller3 Might be best for a *different* kind of service in the future 😅”

I'm slowly, quietly mulling over the idea of a Write.as "version 2" that takes the past six years of lessons and starts from scratch, in ...

In April we were putting on the finishing touches to make Snap.as its own product, usable without a Write.as account. This was going to b...

Dear CJ, > If all you have is a text editor, everything looks like a blog post. When one sees a text editor, see a best friend who...

Update 06/22/2020: Didn't realize that the JavaScript that I talked about in this post, was actually creating a Next link for this po...

“So, I’ll have to work next week.” “...” “If I have to work, I have to work. But I don’t want to get you sick.” “I don’t want to get sick...

> "Daddy, I have a cool idea for a story." > "What is it?" > "So you know how people live in shacks and it...

For a while, I've been looking to dip our toes into payments / monetization for writers on Write.as and WriteFreely. I've taken a...