It's not about 'editing your github files', and anybody who brings up VIM is definitely missing the point (it's not for you!). As I understand it Prose is about the potential to host totally CMS-free sites (e.g. Jekyll sites) on Github and give your customers a decent editor to alter their content.
It's potentially combining the best of the 'push to git to deploy static site' ethos with 'CMS-like editing capabilities so your customers can reasonably edit content'. I think that's why a lot of people are watching this project closely.
I personally would be happy to see this reposted once a month so we can see its progress and maybe encourage more competition in this space.
I'm not here to discuss the tool. It's a good tool. Nothing wrong with it. It's a great tool, worth discussing. It has its uses etc.
However, there's nothing visibly new with each repost. If someone posted like a release, or maybe a changelog, or a blog post with some feature updates, sure. But as of right now, I see Prose get reposted monthly, with no visible changes. And THAT'S annoying.
Is the same person reposting it? If so, its spam and should be reported. If it's a new person each time, and each time it continues to get up-voted, then you're going to have to just live with it just like we all have to live with articles we don't care for making it to the front page. Obviously HN has consciously made a decision to allow reposts after some cool-off period.
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Why does this show up once a month on Hacker News? Seriously. We've discussed this tool to death. And every time, the same discussions follow:
"Hi! I'm a purist. I use VIM to edit my Github textfiles. If you configure VIM correctly, it'll work better than anything in the world!"
"Hi! I'm a non-purist and have tried 50 different tools, let me list them out!"
I don't ever see any other tool or article reposted as much as Prose.io
I think you're sort of missing the point.
It's not about 'editing your github files', and anybody who brings up VIM is definitely missing the point (it's not for you!). As I understand it Prose is about the potential to host totally CMS-free sites (e.g. Jekyll sites) on Github and give your customers a decent editor to alter their content.
It's potentially combining the best of the 'push to git to deploy static site' ethos with 'CMS-like editing capabilities so your customers can reasonably edit content'. I think that's why a lot of people are watching this project closely.
I personally would be happy to see this reposted once a month so we can see its progress and maybe encourage more competition in this space.
I'm not here to discuss the tool. It's a good tool. Nothing wrong with it. It's a great tool, worth discussing. It has its uses etc.
However, there's nothing visibly new with each repost. If someone posted like a release, or maybe a changelog, or a blog post with some feature updates, sure. But as of right now, I see Prose get reposted monthly, with no visible changes. And THAT'S annoying.
Is the same person reposting it? If so, its spam and should be reported. If it's a new person each time, and each time it continues to get up-voted, then you're going to have to just live with it just like we all have to live with articles we don't care for making it to the front page. Obviously HN has consciously made a decision to allow reposts after some cool-off period.