Write.as @write_as@writing.exchange

Need help installing #WriteFreely? You can jump over to our forums to ask for help or see if anyone else has encountered the same problems.

https://discuss.write.as/c/writefreely/installation

Discussing the project in a public place like this helps our small team (@matt) save time answering common questions, and makes it so more people can benefit from / join our conversations.

And if you want to support the project, please feel free to help others in the community. Any help you can offer is welcome and appreciated!

We're working to build a suite of tiny, focused tools that all work together, and share the same simplicity and privacy-awareness of Write.as. This little #blogging platform is just the start.

Now you can #follow along with each of them right here in the fediverse:

@readwriteas - stories from Write.as
@snap_as - photo and album hosting
@htmlhouse - HTML hosting

Future:
@draft_as - collaboration on text
@jot_as - private, encrypted notes

What are your biggest questions as someone *writing* on the platform? Looking for feedback on what to include in the #WriteFreely Writer's Guide here:

https://discuss.write.as/t/feedback-wanted-writefreely-writers-guide/470

New article about #WriteFreely on #LWN (note: paywall): https://lwn.net/Articles/782945/

It's great to read something like this from someone using it for the first time: "WriteFreely has achieved its goal of making it possible to set up a new blogging site with a minimum of effort."

But also plenty of valid criticism there that'll help us making the project better.

We'll be at #AWP in Portland, Oregon in 2 weeks!

Let us know if you'd like to grab coffee before or after the conference. Otherwise, you'll find us at booth #10096!

2018 was the first year we received requests for user data or to have content taken down, so we're going to start releasing an annual #transparency report with this kind of information.

Read about the requests we received in 2018 and how we responded in our latest @intheopen blog post: https://write.as/intheopen/2018-transparency-report

New on @readwriteas: global hashtag browsing! Now you can browse posts across all public blogs by topic, like #blogging: https://read.write.as/t/blogging

If you publish publicly, be sure to add hashtags somewhere in your post. There's no algorithm here; the humans behind Write.as will periodically look at popular tags and choose certain ones to showcase at the top of the site.

If you're at all interested in the development / progress of #writeas and #WriteFreely, I'd highly recommend following @writeas_dev.

Whereas I try to keep this account low-volume and limited to the important stuff, the dev account often contains what we're working on at any given moment, as well as new issues, small fixes, and our future plans.

Even if you're not a developer but instead run a WriteFreely instance — or just publish on one — there's relevant information for you there.

@Kye You can always pay monthly if you prefer. Often people will actually find that they end up using the other features on Pro that they didn't imagine using at first, so you might see the same thing.

Otherwise, it's always available with WriteFreely, whether you host yourself or join another instance: https://writefreely.org/instances

@Kye It's on Pro because people find it valuable. 🙂 We have to eat somehow. And based on my experience, it's not a required feature -- 99% of people on Write.as find the platform useful without having it at all.

WordPress.com subsidizes their free users with their sheer scale and, of course, advertising. We're working to help more people understand this, but a web that isn't subsidized by ads means that users have to start paying for the things they use.