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Write.as

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

discuss.write.as/c/writefreely

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!

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Write.as

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 platform is just the start.

Now you can 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

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Write.as

We've had some rough mornings, availability-wise, since early December.

But today we've finished implementing a slew of upgrades that should ensure better uptime across our platform.

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What's New on Write.as

Now you can use Markdown and minimal HTML in your blog descriptions! This is... write.as/updates/now-you-can-u

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swansinflight

Started the 2 week trial of @write_as yesterday.
Today I paid for the Pro subscription. Who am I kidding, of course I want to use it. I love that there is a #foss arm, but do not have the know-how to do this myself - and am happy to pay to support a great project ❤️

Yay for having a blog again!
It's at lowkey.party/ if anyone wants to look and didn't see me spamming it earlier on various accounts 😉

Image in this post is from my first blog post.

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Write.as

Want your friends to join you on Write.as? Send them an invite!

From your dashboard, hover over your name and click "Invite people." Then you can generate a special link that'll let them sign up for free.

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Strypey

"When we started back in 2015, it [Write.as] was a completely free platform that didn’t even let you sign up — you could publish individual, anonymous posts and share the link.

You can still use Write.as like that to this day. But since then, we’ve also added full accounts and paid plans, grown almost entirely via word-of-mouth, and earlier this year, became profitable as a company, ensuring we can continue building this for decades to come."

write.as/blog/changing-free-re

#WriteAs #RevenueModels

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Managed to isolate the abusive actors. Disabled the many thousands of spambot accounts created. Signups are open again!

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We're currently facing a distributed network of bots creating accounts on our platform, so we've completely disabled registrations until we can better prevent this.

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Write.as Support Status

Happy holidays! 🎄🎅🎁🎆🎊 We’re offering limited support from December 20 to December 31. Please reach out if you need help with billing or other critical / time-sensitive issues, and we’ll help out. Otherwise, we’ll see you in the new year, on January 3!

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Write.as Blog

Changing Free Registrations write.as/blog/changing-free-re

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angelo on write.as

Building the WriteFreely Action Extension in SwiftUI write.as/angelo/building-the-w

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Of course, I don't want to exclude people from ad-free, privacy-centric software like ours — there shouldn't be a premium on it.

So the plan is to continue supporting cost-free publishing via:

- Self-hosting and communities running @writefreely, and
- Invite links, which you can use to give out Free accounts

Besides that, naturally, if you create an account before January 1 you won't have to worry about this — and you can help other people join by inviting them personally.

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There are several reasons for this change, but a big one is needing the space to focus on our customers and build out everything we hope to.

I laid everything out on our forum for community feedback: discuss.write.as/t/potential-c

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I'll share a blog post about this soon, but I've decided to ⚠️ close new Free account registrations ⚠️ for Write.as on December 31st.

This won't affect our anonymous apps or existing users; only those who want to create a Free account starting January 1.

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Micro Matt

Saw a ton of traffic on Write.as this morning, around the same time we do most... micro.baer.works/saw-a-ton-of-

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What's New on Write.as

We’ve added a directory of public writers on Tiny.Write.as, so it’s easier to... write.as/updates/weve-added-a-

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All is good again, we've been back up for a while.

We've also made some changes that should make this kind of outage less likely in the future.

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Write.as

Experiencing abnormally high traffic right now, which is causing some intermittent downtime on our main web application.

We're working to mitigate it now. As always, you can keep an eye on this here: status.write.as

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Write.as

the cyber monday sale 

As for the actual sale, it's still going on until tonight at 11:59pm Eastern. There are discounts on:

- Write.as Pro (25% off - new and existing users)
- Write.as Teams (25% off - new users)
- eBook add-on (30% off)
- @writefreely iOS app (33% off)

Hopefully there's something in there you might like. For all the details, see our @deals post: write.as/deals/shopping-weeken

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While these shopping holidays can be quite silly, a sale like this helps us reach new people and bring in some extra cash in a short period of time.

As always, that cash is the only way we keep the lights on. I've been able to work on this full-time for the last 3 years, only because people pay to use Write.as. So again, thank you!

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Write.as

Thank you to everyone who bought something this weekend!

I haven't talked about it much here, but on my @matt blog I've mentioned that Write.as finally became modestly profitable earlier this year. It's only enough to sustain a single full-time developer (me), but it means I can keep building this, @writefreely, and our other projects indefinitely.

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