🆕 Software Suggestion | Sigle #1634

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2020-01-06T13:21:22Z

pradel commented

2020-01-06 13:21:22 +00:00

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Basic Information

Name: Sigle
Category: Productivity Tools
URL: https://www.sigle.io/

Description

Sigle is a beautiful decentralized & open source blog maker.
It's built with Blockstack, meaning the user is responsible for the storage and we don't store any user data.

Github: https://github.com/pradel/sigle

Let me know what you think :)

## Basic Information **Name:** Sigle **Category:** Productivity Tools **URL:** https://www.sigle.io/ ## Description Sigle is a beautiful decentralized & open source blog maker. It's built with [Blockstack](https://blockstack.org/), meaning the user is responsible for the storage and we don't store any user data. Github: https://github.com/pradel/sigle Let me know what you think :)

lrq3000 commented

2021-06-02 18:53:18 +00:00

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Interesting! OP is the author of the software. This is a blog website creator hosted on the open-source PoX (proof-of-transfer) Blockstack's blockchain.

@pradel Can you please tell us more about what metadata are required/leaked to publish a post? I guess that the blockchain stores a unique handle that links a URL to the blog post, so the IP address is fully accessible to any reader?

Also, what kind of URL it generates when it is self-hosted, is it just a standard https protocol URL? If so, who or what system provides these URLs? Is it Blockstack?

Interesting! OP is the author of the software. This is a blog website creator [hosted on the open-source PoX (proof-of-transfer) Blockstack's blockchain](https://github.com/blockstack/stacks). @pradel Can you please tell us more about what metadata are required/leaked to publish a post? I guess that the blockchain stores a unique handle that links a URL to the blog post, so the IP address is fully accessible to any reader? Also, what kind of URL it generates when it is self-hosted, is it just a standard https protocol URL? If so, who or what system provides these URLs? Is it Blockstack?

lrq3000 commented

2021-06-02 19:03:58 +00:00

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Also is there a collaborative feature, for multiple authors to work on one blog?

pradel commented

2021-06-02 21:58:43 +00:00

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@lrq3000 to publish a post you just need to have a blockstack id that is not linked to any personal data. Sigle is just able to read the username you registered with blockstack. When you login for the first time, a new URL pointing to Gaia (the storage component) is added to your blockstack profile so in JSON it looks a bit like this { apps: { 'https://app.sigle.io': 'https://my-storage-url' } }. The URL is using the standard HTTPS protocol indeed so any other reader can use it easily, the URL is provided by Gaia which is a nodejs application by default deployed by blockstack but that you can change easily and self-host yourself.

Also is there a collaborative feature, for multiple authors to work on one blog?

Not at the moment, but we are currently working on the v2 of the platform and this might be included :)

@lrq3000 to publish a post you just need to have a blockstack id that is not linked to any personal data. Sigle is just able to read the username you registered with blockstack. When you login for the first time, a new URL pointing to Gaia (the storage component) is added to your blockstack profile so in JSON it looks a bit like this `{ apps: { 'https://app.sigle.io': 'https://my-storage-url' } }`. The URL is using the standard HTTPS protocol indeed so any other reader can use it easily, the URL is provided by Gaia which is a nodejs application by default deployed by blockstack but that you can change easily and self-host yourself. > Also is there a collaborative feature, for multiple authors to work on one blog? Not at the moment, but we are currently working on the v2 of the platform and this might be included :)

lrq3000 commented

2021-06-02 22:03:34 +00:00

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Ok awesome! Thank you very much for the additional details, the platform is very promising :-)

I however have an issue with the button "Visit my blog", for some reason it just redirects to the dashboard (more precisely it links to https://app.sigle.io/). I have however 2 published posts (for test purposes). I can give you my key if you need it, it's a test account anyway.

Ok awesome! Thank you very much for the additional details, the platform is very promising :-) I however have an issue with the button "Visit my blog", for some reason it just redirects to the dashboard (more precisely it links to `https://app.sigle.io/`). I have however 2 published posts (for test purposes). I can give you my key if you need it, it's a test account anyway.

pradel commented

2021-06-04 22:28:20 +00:00

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You tried exactly when we had an issue around the registration of new accounts 😁 if you retry and create a new username everything should work :D

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lrq3000 commented

2021-06-09 17:05:20 +00:00

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Seems like I was unlucky indeed :-)

I have just retested and indeed it works very well, very nice work!

I have three questions:

Do you plan on supporting integration of videos, or at least embedded content such as iframes?
Where is the content of the posts stored?
How resistant is this to censorship? (ie, how can a governmental organization take down a targeted content)?

Seems like I was unlucky indeed :-) I have just retested and indeed it works very well, very nice work! I have three questions: * Do you plan on supporting integration of videos, or at least embedded content such as iframes? * Where is the content of the posts stored? * How resistant is this to censorship? (ie, how can a governmental organization take down a targeted content)?

pradel commented

2021-06-12 20:23:53 +00:00

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Do you plan on supporting integration of videos, or at least embedded content such as iframes?

yes definitely this will be added

Where is the content of the posts stored?

content is stored in Gaia, https://docs.stacks.co/build-apps/references/gaia

How resistant is this to censorship? (ie, how can a governmental organization take down a targeted content)?

a governmental organization could ask me to remove some content, I would have to comply and take down the content from sigle.io (basically just hide it if someone hit the URL). But the content would still be available on Gaia as only the private key owner can edit the content. So any "alternative" reader can still display this content, the user will not lose his content as it is still available in Gaia.

> Do you plan on supporting integration of videos, or at least embedded content such as iframes? yes definitely this will be added > Where is the content of the posts stored? content is stored in Gaia, https://docs.stacks.co/build-apps/references/gaia > How resistant is this to censorship? (ie, how can a governmental organization take down a targeted content)? a governmental organization could ask me to remove some content, I would have to comply and take down the content from sigle.io (basically just hide it if someone hit the URL). But the content would still be available on Gaia as only the private key owner can edit the content. So any "alternative" reader can still display this content, the user will not lose his content as it is still available in Gaia.

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