We just deployed a new feature for prose that we think is worth an
announcement. We care about radical experimentation
at pico and want to continue to make potentially dramatic changes to the look
and function of our services. For many of our services, this is not much of an
issue. However for prose, things are a little different when it comes to the
look and feel of a person's blog. We don't want to make dramatic changes to our
theme over time without being careful.
We need to have a paradigm shift with our services and prose is a great
vehicle to discuss stability through our radical experimentation.
For prose, we are giving users a way to define the look of their blog without
the default CSS. with_styles allows users
to disable our default CSS styles entirely. That along with the user-defined
_styles.css, it should make it easier to customize your blog.
Just send us a _readme.md file with the following setting:
1---
2with_styles: false
3---
Further, we plan to make some bigger changes to the default styles on prose. You can see what it will look like at bower.sh.
If you want your blog to have the same style as it exists today, disable the
default styles with_styles: false like above and then download the current
version of our styles:
1curl -o ./_styles.css https://prose.sh/smol.css
2scp ./_styles.css prose.sh:/
This post is not exclusive to prose. We need to make our design philosophy
aligned with radical experimentation. We need to provide users with stability
and consistency while also making dramatic changes to them.