"Want to be a part of the network? Awesome. But for now, we’re invite-only. You can apply for an account below, and we’ll send an invitation when we’re ready."
They do, they just don't use them everyday. E.g. the Tudors were called the Tudors because that was their surname. Current lot are the Windsors I think.
"Want to be a part of the network? Awesome. But for now,
we’re invite-only. You can apply for an account below,
and we’ll send an invitation when we’re ready."
Okay, great. So...
"Something went wrong, and an error has occurred."
It appeared to only be open for a few moments.
It was then redirecting to /apply.
As of a few moments ago you could /signup again, but the accounts beings created have issues.
Too late, it's over. I don't want it anymore. I can get the exact same stuff with minimalistic Jekyll/Pelican themes and Svbtle is not exclusive anymore.
Isn't this like shooting themselves in the foot? Svbtle exclusivity was the only differentiator, guaranteeing at least some quality of the content. Now it's gone and so Svbtle turns from a notable content source to just another blogging platform.
This same comment, except replace "Svbtle" with "Facebook" back when they opened up registrations for college students outside the Ivy League. It's not too far off from the much ballyhooed Slashdot quote on the first ipod.
What an unnecessarily mean-spirited comment. Did you really need to say your first sentence?
That being said, maybe you're missing the point. Maybe svbtle wants to be a mainstream publishing platform and is just bootstrapping its initial user culture by curating the users. Maybe not.
Groucho said it best... I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member. That said, opening it up would be a mistake, ask A Small World, aka the affluent circle jerkers. (Still miffed Paris Hilton never wrote me back).
Oh, lucky me. Signup seems to have been disabled while I was filling out the form (I was greeted with the form without Twitter handle forced etc). When I pressed "Apply" or whatever it said, I got to a page that said "Sorry, but we can't find that page.". Now mobile and desktop site redirects /signup to /apply. What a mess.
I would say that Medium killed them. The problem with svbtle is that there was absolutely zero hope for a long time to get in. If they made it exclusive but there was some way to work your way in, I think they would have done fine but it's too late now.
i don't think the internet is free. Everything has a price. For example if you blog you've to pay for hosting, for a domain. Although $10 is nothing for for some asian countries it's a big communt.
If you get it free still you can only do that until their money runs out like what happened to tumblr or else they'll put ads like what yahoo is about to do to tumblr. And wordpress ads that suck.
So the internet is not free as people think it is.
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Why not?
I don't know why it's not public to some people, i just signed up it was not as cool as i expected
http://ruky.svbtle.com/trying-my-thing-with-svblte
(AFAIK, most royal families dont have last names)
Prior to that they were the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha's.[2]
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Windsor [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Saxe-Coburg_and_Gotha#...
Moving on to the next story...
Jeepers Creepers, boys! Get your act together.
What am I missing?
No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame. http://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-ip...
Facebook isn't a publishing platform. Apple didn't undermine its best feature in existing product by introducing iPod.
That being said, maybe you're missing the point. Maybe svbtle wants to be a mainstream publishing platform and is just bootstrapping its initial user culture by curating the users. Maybe not.
Any recommendations now that svbtle seems to have closed again?
one of the best things about the web is that nobody has to ask permission from anyone else to make their speech free.
-bowerbird
If you get it free still you can only do that until their money runs out like what happened to tumblr or else they'll put ads like what yahoo is about to do to tumblr. And wordpress ads that suck.
So the internet is not free as people think it is.
although, to be honest, i also know of no free beer.
-bowerbird