Nice, but the XSS! Couldn't resist. https://anon.sharehub.live/post/ckmxxig5y00090vmurwox9nwz/xs...
Working on a fix for this!
EDIT: Fixed.
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Right now, you can't find other people's posts. This is by design. It is up to you to decide who to share your posts with. I considered adding an option to list your article on some type of feed or list, but then I would have to figure out how to moderate all the toxic posts that would inevitably pile-up.
Thanks for the answer. With that in mind, when you make a post and enable comments then those people who have the shared link are the only ones who can comment, right? I was trying to understand how to read any comments that others have made on the Anon post you made. For this to work you need to save the link, send it to your selected audience, and then check back in for their thoughts.
Correct!
Only those who can actually see the post can make comments. Later on, I might add some way for the originally author to 'moderate' their comments through a non-tracking cookie. However, many users probably have some cookie-deletion extensions installed (I know I do) that might make this difficult if they close the page. Still trying to think of a better solution.
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You might want to include a basic "report" button, since free image + text can get some skeevy stuff.
very, very true. this approach to social software has proven consistently destructive across multiple platforms. Snapchat had a ton of underage nudes. 4chan's been a magnet for hate speech. I miss the anonymity of the early, 1990s WWW, but that was the playful anonymity of a much smaller group of people. it was a self-selecting group with a lot less of these problems at the time. what kind of use cases did you have i…
Use cases are up to the users. They can choose what sort of content to make, and who they wish to share it with. I will add a report-button to deter the platform from being used for illegal activity.
All social-software is inherently destructive in the same way that it is inherently good. It really depends on the users. People and ideas viewed as 'bad' today, might be 'good' in the future, and vice-versa. MLK was once FBI #1 most wanted, now he is an America hero. Gay marriage was once a marxist conspiracy to subvert god-fearing capitalists, now it is legal in all 50 US states. Etc, etc.
Re: Show HN: Anon – Create anonymous, self-deleting blog posts
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Thanks for the answer. With that in mind, when you make a post and enable comments then those people who have the shared link are the only ones who can comment, right? I was trying to understand how to read any comments that others have made on the Anon post you made. For this to work you need to save the link, send it to your selected audience, and then check back in for their thoughts.
Correct! Only those who can actually see the post can make comments. Later on, I might add some way for the originally author to 'moderate' their comments through a non-tracking cookie. However, many users probably have some cookie-deletion extensions installed (I know I do) that might make this difficult if they close the page. Still trying to think of a better solution.
Couldn't the poster set a password instead of a cookie, which they could then
use for comment moderation on that post?
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Correct! Only those who can actually see the post can make comments. Later on, I might add some way for the originally author to 'moderate' their comments through a non-tracking cookie. However, many users probably have some cookie-deletion extensions installed (I know I do) that might make this difficult if they close the page. Still trying to think of a better solution.
Couldn't the poster set a password instead of a cookie, which they could then use for comment moderation on that post?
If I could give you a cookie now, I would.
I don't know why I didn't think of this before lol
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#26I love the idea !!! Not sure when i'd use it but non the less i think it's awesome. I'd say that users that would want this feature would also like some sense of "security" that the post is actually deleted. there is no sense of that. another 2 cents :) How about letting us decide when it gets deleted rather than the magic 7 days?
I am glad you like it! There is a slider you can set that changes the duration. I fixed it at 1-7-30 days. I probably need to make that feature more visible though. And I'll add in the option to let users set the kill duration. I do hard-delete the posts once they expire, but I don't know how I could give users a sense of 'security' that it has gone into the void. Do you have any suggestions?
Maybe, once a post has been created you could show a message stating exact datetime on which the post will be deleted?
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#27Cool site :D but consider fixing some xss issues :(. https://anon.sharehub.live/post/ckmxuf329008415mjcdmuwufu/as...
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I am glad you like it! There is a slider you can set that changes the duration. I fixed it at 1-7-30 days. I probably need to make that feature more visible though. And I'll add in the option to let users set the kill duration. I do hard-delete the posts once they expire, but I don't know how I could give users a sense of 'security' that it has gone into the void. Do you have any suggestions?
Maybe, once a post has been created you could show a message stating exact datetime on which the post will be deleted?
Will do!
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#29Cool site :D but consider fixing some xss issues :(. https://anon.sharehub.live/post/ckmxuf329008415mjcdmuwufu/as...
asdfasdfasdfasdf Didn't know you could execute javascript emebedded in an image like that. I used some basic filtering rules, but I can clearly see I have some way to go. I won't sleep tonight until I get this fixed! EDIT: The glitch in the matrix is no more. Thank you for pointing this out!
can you share what the bug was? :)
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asdfasdfasdfasdf Didn't know you could execute javascript emebedded in an image like that. I used some basic filtering rules, but I can clearly see I have some way to go. I won't sleep tonight until I get this fixed! EDIT: The glitch in the matrix is no more. Thank you for pointing this out!
can you share what the bug was? :)
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It was redirecting users to 'never gonna give you up' on youtube. It was a noob mistake.