diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 23f1a2b..3f1d7b6 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,34 +1,24 @@ ## About -[NoteHub](http://notehub.org) is a free and hassle-free anonymous hosting for markdown pages. It can be used for publishing of markdown-formatted texts. +[NoteHub](http://notehub.org) is a free and hassle-free pastebin for one-off markdown publishing. -NoteHub was an one-app-one-language [experiment](http://notehub.org/2012/6/16/how-notehub-is-built) and is implemented entirely in [Clojure](http://clojure.org) (ClojureScript). -The [source code](https://github.com/chmllr/NoteHub) can be found on GitHub. +NoteHub _was_ an one-app-one-language [experiment](http://notehub.org/2012/6/16/how-notehub-is-built) and is was initially implemented entirely in [Clojure](http://clojure.org) (ClojureScript). NoteHub's persistence layer is based on the key-value store [redis](http://redis.io). Currently, NoteHub is hosted for free on [Heroku](http://heroku.com). Send your feedback and comments directly to [@gravitydenier](http://twitter.com/gravitydenier) or open an [issue](https://github.com/chmllr/NoteHub/issues) on GitHub. -## Why? -Not every person, who occasionally wants to express some thoughts, needs a blog. -Blogs are __tedious__ for writers and for readers. -As readers we are not interested in every thought of other random people. -As writers, we know, that everything rotates nowadays around social networks and not individual blogs. -It's easier to publish something somewhere and to share the link with the audience on the community or social network of choice, than to maintain a blog trying to keep the readers interested. - -__NoteHub__ should be the place, where you can publish your thoughts without hassle. - ## How to Use? First, create [a new page](http://notehub.org/new) using the [Markdown syntax](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/). When the note is published, you'll see a subtle panel at the bottom of the screen. From this panel you can go to a rudimentary statistics of the article, or you can export the original markdown, or copy the short url of the note. Besides this, you also can invert the color scheme by appending to the note url ([example](http://notehub.org/2012/6/16/how-notehub-is-built?theme=dark)): - + notehub.org/.../title?theme=dark - + The same way you can specify a [Google Web Font](http://www.google.com/webfonts/) for headers by appending to the note url: notehub.org/.../title?header-font=FONT-NAME - + and for the text itself: notehub.org/.../title?header-font=FONT-NAME&text-font=FONT-NAME2