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by raybb 855 days ago
Your post inspired me to finally write about my FOSDEM experience this year. In summary, it was a little hard connecting to people without already knowing someone there but I still had a nice time in general and learned about some nice stuff like Open Food Facts, PassBolt, and Vale.sh. Looking forward to going again next year. If I'm lucky maybe even give a talk about something, I've really been enjoying coolify this year and maybe the creator would welcome a guest speaker sharing it :)

https://blog.rayberger.org/fosdem-2024
1 comments
dale_glass 855 days ago
Nice, but that blog software is obnoxious.

Who ever thought that while reading the first post on the site and not yet done, I'd actually appreciate being scrolled back to the top, and getting a popup asking to subscribe to a newsletter?

Even if I wanted to, I'd refuse out of principle.

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raybb 855 days ago
wow that popup in the middle of the article and scrolling is obnoxious. I have never seen it since it doesn't show it to me when logged in.

I poked around and it doesn't appear I can disable that popup without disabling the whole newsletter feature. I don't care so much about people subscribing but my less techy friends seem to like the newsletter mode.

I messaged the hashnode.com support to ask about this. Other than that I've been pretty happy with them given that I don't want to selfhost my blog right now.

Anyway, thanks for letting me know.

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summm 855 days ago
This! And, the RSS feed isn't referenced in the header, so my reader wouldn't automatically recognize it. At least the icon is clearly visible.
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raybb 845 days ago
Shot them a message about it and it is fixed. Thanks again for letting me know!
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raybb 855 days ago
I also messaged support about this. Hopefully they address it.

Thanks for pointing it out.

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