[HN Gopher] Paged Out Issue #3 ___________________________________________________________________ Paged Out Issue #3 Author : woodruffw Score : 92 points Date : 2023-12-18 16:09 UTC (6 hours ago) (HTM) web link (pagedout.institute) (TXT) w3m dump (pagedout.institute) | 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). ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-12-18 23:00 UTC)