Product
Features
A short tour of everything a FullySky blog includes, and the few things we leave out on purpose.
A blog that is entirely yours
Every writer gets one address on FullySky and keeps everything they publish there. It is the front door to your work, and the place readers come back to.
Your own address
Your blog lives at
/your-handle/, with your name, portrait and a short bio at the top, and an optional link to your own website.An introduction you write
Open your blog with a curated introduction: a few lines about what you cover, and links to the pieces a new reader should start with.
Sections you name
Group your pieces into sections of your own choosing, so a growing archive stays easy to walk through.
A feed of your own
Each blog has an RSS feed at
/your-handle/feed.xml, so readers can follow you in whatever app they already use.
Pages made for the long piece
FullySky is laid out for writing that runs to thousands of words. The page does the formatting, so you can stay with the argument.
Wide cover images
Give a piece a cover image and it opens full width, like a view. Pieces without one get a quiet, text-first opening instead of an empty frame.
Images inside the text
Add photographs and diagrams within a piece. They are hosted on the site itself, so they stay put.
Contents for long reads
Longer pieces get a table of contents built from their headings, so readers can see the route before they set out.
Accents rendered properly
Vietnamese and other accented languages are fully supported, from headlines to comments, in typefaces chosen for them.
Ordinary links
Link to your sources and to your own website. Links in a piece are plain links that go where they say.
Tags and topics
Tag a piece and it joins a topic page next to related work by other writers on the site.
Reading, open to everyone
Nobody needs an account to read FullySky. There is nothing to sign up for and nothing to close before the text appears.
Fast, plain pages
Pages are server-rendered HTML and CSS. They load quickly and keep working on slow connections and older phones.
Comfortable on any screen
One readable column on a phone, a wide, airy layout on a desktop. No sideways scrolling anywhere.
Follow a subject
Topic pages gather tagged pieces from every blog, so you can follow an idea across writers instead of one person.
A feed for the whole site
Prefer to see everything?
/feed.xmllists new pieces from every writer on FullySky.
Conversation, with a moderator
Readers can answer a piece with just a name. No account and no email address are needed.
Reviewed before publishing
Guest comments wait for a moderator. Only approved comments are shown, which keeps threads on topic and free of spam.
No queue that lasts forever
Comments that are never approved are deleted automatically after 30 days.
What stays off the page
Some things are missing on purpose. A clear view is the point.
No advertising
Nothing competes with the writing for space.
No analytics or tracking pixels
We do not measure readers or follow them from page to page.
No third-party scripts
The only scripts on a page are the site’s own small ones.
No cookies for readers
Reading and commenting set no cookies at all. Only administrators get a session cookie when they sign in.