Thread by @dhh

Remember the Web 1.0 vibe? It's out! It's called HEY World. The simplest possible way for @jasonfried and I to start writing emails to the world. Incredibly slim pages, zero trackers, zero JavaScript, minimal CSS. Like the olden days. I'll be writing here: world.hey.com/dhh

This will be fewer tweet storms going forward, and more HEY World emails. As much as I love the reach of Twitter, I can't stand the room half the time either. The platform rewards brevity, but also eggs on the worst in you. HEY World has no retweets, no likes. But you can reply!

Also, remember me talking about that format.atom? Yup! Full RSS feed support out the gate 🤘

Anyway, there's nothing revolutionary here. THAT'S THE POINT. We just needed a simple way to write for an audience, without any of the cruft, trackers, or bloat. Some times all you need to find the joy of writing again is to peel the onion 😄

I derive an unreasonable amount of joy from making pages this simple, this fast 😍

Also, it was a pleasure making HEY World happen in record time together with our new product designer Tassia and ops slinger Fernando. While @jonasdowney and @jasonfried helped a little (😂), this was a real Team EU project at Basecamp. tassia.eu

Naturally, the emails sent via HEY World are completely free of trackers as well. Subscription is double-opt-in, and you neither Jason nor I will require a phone call if you wish to cancel 😂. This was the other reason this happened. TOO HARD TO DO THIS WITHOUT TRACKERS!!

Anyway. Enough tweet storming. I'll write something for HEY World tomorrow about what went into making this and the background on the lolsob from this morning rolling it out.

https://twitter.com/heyhey/status/1363822770493272065

Oh one last thing: Why no cookie banners? BECAUSE WE DON'T SET ANY COOKIES.