10Centuries

10Centuries is an ad-free publishing platform with the ambitious goal of staying online for a thousand years, and keeping your content readable for future generations to visit and enjoy.

Using the service couldn't be easier. Simply send a PM (Private Message) to @10Centuries, and it will be turned into a blog post on your personal blog. A confirmation message will be sent back to you with the website address the first time you submit a post, and this is the only time you will hear from the service. 10Centuries is meant to be as unobtrusive as possible, allowing you to focus on writing. Messages are limited only by the number of characters a PM can be, which is currently set at 2,048. You can also sign up for the service via the website.

Features
The platform is quite simple at the moment, but it does come with some nice features, including:
 * Markdown Support
 * Embedded Image Support
 * Tagging
 * Custom Domains
 * Custom CSS
 * being Multi-Lingual (English, French, and German)

More will come in the future. If there is a feature you'd like to see, send a message to @matigo and it might just become a reality.

Special Syntax
There are some special meta strings that can be passed to 10Centuries to control elements of your blog post, as well as parts of your website. Here is a list of the currently supported meta strings:


 * [title: This is a Post Title] - Sets the Title of the Blog Post
 * [tags: These, Are, Some, Comma, Separated, Tags] - Sets the Tags for the Blog Post (#Hashtags are also supported, but are generally uglier).

Note: Spaces are not required in the tags or between the colon and the first letter.

And for the site:
 * [sitename: This Is My Website] - Sets the Name of the Website
 * [sitedescr: Random Ramblngs] - Sets the Subtitle of the Website
 * [siteauthor: Your Pen Name] - Sets the Author name for every Post on the Website
 * [sitelang: de] - Sets the Default Language of the site (Currently limited to EN for English, DE for German, FR for French, and JA for Japanese).
 * [pester: y] - Sets whether 10Centuries will notify you each and every time it publishes your article. Settings include Y (Yes), and N (No).

Don't want to use these commands? No problem. You can request web dashboard credentials with the following command:
 * [dashboard:link] - Gives you full access to your account, including the ability to upgrade to a Wordsmith account ($12 USD/year)

Want to Delete the site? You can do that, too:
 * [delete] - Will trigger a confirmation message containing the necessary code to delete your website and remove all content from the servers.

Note: Deleting your blog will not delete the messages from your App.net account.

Privacy Concerns
This blogging platform does not know anything about you when you submit a post via Private Messages, as it only interacts with App.net to retrieve new Messages. I will never know your IP address or anything about you aside from a UserName and message when you make posts. The servers are located in Osaka, Japan, with a weekly backup stored in Nagoya, Japan. Posts you delete are scrubbed from the server, as are any attachments associated with the post. No analytics are collected with this service, and I couldn't tell you how many visitors a particular site or page had if I tried. The only statistic being monitored is the number of hits per second, which lets someone know how big of a web server is required.

Want More?
The service comes with a lot of features such as the ability to use personal domain names, several languages, themes, custom CSS templates, and a host of other options at no cost. Looking for a specific feature? Get in touch with @matigo and it might just become a reality.

Thanks go out to @lasar, @blumenkraft, and @chriscolon for helping with the German translation, and to @ericd for the French translation.

About 10Centuries
10Centuries was originally built to pull blog posts in from Evernote, as well as archive App.net posts and Tweets. This provides a single place for you to archive, index, and share your online content with the world. The service currently has two tiers: free and paid. The free tier allows people to post from ADN, Email, Evernote, and the web dashboard. The paid tier comes with all of the same functions as the free plus the ability to change the theme.

Have a question? Get in touch with @matigo and he'll be sure to help you out.