[HN Gopher] Paged Out Issue #3
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       Paged Out Issue #3
        
       Author : woodruffw
       Score  : 92 points
       Date   : 2023-12-18 16:09 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | aspenmayer wrote:
       | More info about the 4 year delay, changes to the
       | management/publication structure, and more are on the blog, which
       | perhaps the post should link to instead:
       | 
       | https://pagedout.institute/?page=blog.php#entry-2023-12-18
        
       | vaughnegut wrote:
       | Super happy to see this, I'd given up hope and had been checking
       | in around once a year until this year. It's such a fun format for
       | a magazine.
        
       | solarkraft wrote:
       | I'd really like some prints ...
        
         | gynvael wrote:
         | True for us all...
        
       | tnballo wrote:
       | Congrats to the Paged Out team for bringing back the community
       | zine after 4 years!
       | 
       | Between the old-school hacker spirit and the short-form content,
       | this is a real gem.
        
       | Rendello wrote:
       | Glad to see it back! I contributed a few to #2, including the
       | only "landscape mode" article, which was probably a bit of a pain
       | in the ass for the team ;)
        
       | whatamidoingyo wrote:
       | I said it in 2019
       | (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20673905), and I'll say it
       | again - a physical edition would be neat. Any plans for this?
        
         | gynvael wrote:
         | Yes (with a lot of small print)!
         | 
         | Good news is that we're already chatting with two print houses
         | about printing around 1k copies (test print basically). The
         | plan is to give these away on various events / conferences, or
         | to local communities.
         | 
         | Bad news is that we'll be able to only send these to EU, and
         | only in large batches (like 100 copies to one place), and not
         | individually.
         | 
         | Good news is that we'll make the printer-house-friendly PDFs
         | available for anyone who wants to print a batch and given them
         | away (or sell them for the cost of making).
         | 
         | And I also have this idea to chat with various companies for
         | them to make a sponsor-batch of zines to print and give away,
         | e.g. on events they sponsor. Not sure how much interest there
         | will be.
         | 
         | We also plan to make a nice "collector's" high-quality print of
         | a bundle edition (e.g. 4 issues in one "book") to help get some
         | money into the project. Same as PoC||GTFO did (shoutout to
         | these folks), though we'll probably go with a kickstarter or
         | sth.
         | 
         | Now, the elephant in the room: selling individual issues in a
         | consistent always-available way - that's something we're
         | discussing from time to time. At this moment we're not there
         | yet, as the logistics and accounting stuff of this operation
         | would be pretty huge. I'm also thinking of approaching some
         | local magazine publishers in some countries with a deal like
         | "hey, we have PDFs, wanna print and sell these for a %?".
         | 
         | So yeah, it's complicated(tm) ;)
        
           | rudasn wrote:
           | It would be very cool if each issue had its unique "website",
           | and each article it's own unique page (different colors or
           | layout, but consistent with that issue's overall theme).
           | 
           | Some blogs used to do this back in the day, where each post
           | had its own unique design.
           | 
           | Something like mkdocs with material theme, or Hugo could do
           | the trick. Or, you know, plain old hand crafted html and css
           | and a script to generate the pdfs (with headless chrome for
           | maximum compatibility).
        
       | moralestapia wrote:
       | Wow! This was already 100% memory holed by me, what a pleasant
       | surprise to see this coming back!
       | 
       | I wrote a small article for your 2nd edition, and I'd love to
       | write again for your 4th edition (hopefully sooner than 2026,
       | lol).
        
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