https://sites.read.cv/api/user/[username]

I'd be very happy to build this with anyone, if we can find an answer to that question.

(For the record, there are things on read.cv I personally would have paid more for, if they were available, like a public API for my profile content)

But the wall I keep hitting, after personally being a part of early Dribbble, Designer News, Good News, and now read.cv...

Where is the sustain? How do we make *this* one live more than four years?

Building products is really fucking hard. 

read.cv is impressive by itself. Add sites, posts, jobs, etc. and it's godly. 

@mehdi @shen @andy deserve every ounce of respect on their names, no matter how sad we are.

1. I commend you for seeking this out. It's clearly valuable to the community here but as you said, it's a huge undertaking.
2. I fully believe that we *need* small social places on the web, regardless of our collective social-media burnout. 
3. need to DM your main Q 😅

Recreating even a fraction of this is not a weekend project. Enthusiasm + talent go far, and we are HOT right now...

But infra is $$$$. Time is irreplaceable. And this idea has been tried by many great *great* people.

This is the best iteration so far, and it's going away.

Designer News and Good News were both scrappy side projects, they died not necessarily because of lack of funding (Designer News especially was just the LayerVault news room initially), but due to how hard moderation and maintenance is.

One thing that strikes me about your list - four exceptionally well-designed sites/products. Which is natural to build a design-focused community. But maybe make something scrappier, requiring less ongoing effort to keep alive, making it more sustainable.

(and if there are others, less daunted, I have comprehensive authentication, user accounts, asset storage, and half an importer set up in ruby on rails)

I've spent the past few hours burning my knuckles considering "what if we just could keep posts". I've written authentication, user accounts, and now started working on an importer for the read.cv exports (thanks @andy for the idea!)

There's a "public" API you can access at https://sites.read.cv/api/user/[username]

As the URL suggests, it's used for Sites, but it has all the profile content. I discovered it a few months ago while poking around Sites lol

This is and will be a diaspora to many places, but I think Bluesky is actually the winner so far.

Design Twitter → Posts → Design Sky