Write.as Development @writeas_dev@abunchtell.com

This might've been a good theory for building modular applications (as I'm hoping to), but in practice causes a ton of headaches for maintenance and end user experience.

Little problems came up right away:

- How do we share user data across platforms?
- How do we create common UI patterns while keeping distinct branding on each platform?
- How do we reconcile slightly-different uses of those shared libraries across platforms?

@snap_as was also the first product we launched separately from @write_as, and it was built on the assumption that an entirely separate codebase would be best.

The idea was that the applications would share common components (https://github.com/writeas/web-core), but would have separate application codebases and storage.

Deployment got harder as their platform shifted beneath us, and one day recently our entire site was replaced by a simple message that said, "We no longer support Go 1.9." That was a fun day!

https://discuss.write.as/t/snap-as-is-down/1694/3

A little background: this is driven by Google Cloud being a very, very bad cloud platform to build on as a small team.

We tried it in 2016 as an experiment, and a series of service deprecations since then have caused us downtime and meant us ultimately offering a stable, but stagnated service.

This week I'm re-architecting and moving @snap_as from a separate application into our single @write_as application. Here are a few thoughts along the way.

[#wfdev] thebaer opened #383: Add WYSIWYG editor option https://writefreely.org/pull/383

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[#wfdev] AngeloStavrow opened writefreely-swiftui-multiplatform #46: Cannot delete remote posts via the app https://github.com/writeas/writefreely-swiftui-multiplatform/issues/46

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[#wfdev] AngeloStavrow opened writefreely-swiftui-multiplatform #45: Posts deleted from the server cannot be removed from the device https://github.com/writeas/writefreely-swiftui-multiplatform/issues/45

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[#wfdev] AngeloStavrow opened writefreely-swiftui-multiplatform #44: Cannot delete local posts https://github.com/writeas/writefreely-swiftui-multiplatform/issues/44

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[#wfdev] AngeloStavrow opened writefreely-swiftui-multiplatform #43: [Mac] Input lag when typing in the post editor https://github.com/writeas/writefreely-swiftui-multiplatform/issues/43

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[#wfdev] AngeloStavrow opened writefreely-swiftui-multiplatform #42: Persist content locally https://github.com/writeas/writefreely-swiftui-multiplatform/pull/42

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[#wfdev] Closed writefreely-swiftui-multiplatform #32: Implement reload-from-server https://github.com/writeas/writefreely-swiftui-multiplatform/pull/32

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[#wfdev] Closed writefreely-swiftui-multiplatform #19: Add a way to pull in new/updated content from the server https://github.com/writeas/writefreely-swiftui-multiplatform/issues/19

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[#wfdev] Antolius opened #382: Fix escaping in post summary https://writefreely.org/pull/382

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[#wfdev] Closed #316: TestPostLede fails https://writefreely.org/issues/316

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[#wfdev] Closed #381: Truncate post lede at question mark https://writefreely.org/pull/381

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[#wfdev] Closed #336: Add Cache-Control header https://writefreely.org/pull/336

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[#wfdev] Closed #322: static assets served without cache policy leads to suboptimal page speed https://writefreely.org/issues/322

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[#wfdev] Closed #377: Bump github.com/microcosm-cc/bluemonday from 1.0.3 to 1.0.4 https://writefreely.org/pull/377

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[#wfdev] Closed #80: data: URIs are incorrectly stripped https://writefreely.org/issues/80

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