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Re: Show HN: This page will disappear in 10,000 views

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post #19

Kinda feel like a jerk on this one. Wasn't really expecting to be able to nuke it so easily. ab -c 30 -n 3000 http://www.blinklink.me/b/4XIxfoeF4C0 Concurrency Level: 30 Time taken for tests: 93.802 seconds Complete requests: 3000 Failed requests: 2137 (Connect: 0, Receive: 0, Length: 2137, Exceptions: 0) Write errors: 0 Requests per second: 31.98 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 938.024 [ms] (mean) Time per request:…

What is ab?

I didn't know either. Per "man ab":

> ab - Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool

Re: Show HN: This page will disappear in 10,000 views

#22
post #19

Kinda feel like a jerk on this one. Wasn't really expecting to be able to nuke it so easily. ab -c 30 -n 3000 http://www.blinklink.me/b/4XIxfoeF4C0 Concurrency Level: 30 Time taken for tests: 93.802 seconds Complete requests: 3000 Failed requests: 2137 (Connect: 0, Receive: 0, Length: 2137, Exceptions: 0) Write errors: 0 Requests per second: 31.98 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 938.024 [ms] (mean) Time per request:…

What is ab?

Don't use it for actual benchmarking though, it has lots of known problems. Use something like: https://github.com/wg/wrk

Re: Show HN: This page will disappear in 10,000 views

#24
post #15

This is like Snapchat for the web, except it's too easy to take a screenshot of the content which means there's not much of a point to the view limit. You could make it difficult perhaps by requiring the user follow a path with their mouse, otherwise white noise appears. That way they cannot actually move their cursor to take a screenshot. Maybe do something else to occupy one of their other hands, such as pressing a…

You could improve it significantly by implementing something similar to this: http://www.donothingfor2minutes.com/

Any mouse movement or keypresses would blank the page and you'd have to reload it to see the contents again. Of course, there are probably ways to subvert this, but it would stop most people.

Re: Show HN: This page will disappear in 10,000 views

#25
post #18
post #7

A variant of this, involving payment, could be the future of journalism.

This content disappears after 1,000 views unless you pay $5.

But if you have seen it, what's the incentive for paying money after the fact? If you haven't seen it then it's just the same as a paywall.

Re: Show HN: This page will disappear in 10,000 views

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Why does the view count change wildly up and down as I refresh? Otherwise, love it. Needs a favicon. Get ready for viral growth.

It's an interesting concept, However, I'm struggling to figure out a situation where it would be useful. There might be something here, just not in it's current state, and for that reason, I don't see it going viral anytime soon.

Re: Show HN: This page will disappear in 10,000 views

#27
post #15

This is like Snapchat for the web, except it's too easy to take a screenshot of the content which means there's not much of a point to the view limit. You could make it difficult perhaps by requiring the user follow a path with their mouse, otherwise white noise appears. That way they cannot actually move their cursor to take a screenshot. Maybe do something else to occupy one of their other hands, such as pressing a…

You could improve it significantly by implementing something similar to this: http://www.donothingfor2minutes.com/ Any mouse movement or keypresses would blank the page and you'd have to reload it to see the contents again. Of course, there are probably ways to subvert this, but it would stop most people.

I'm sure there are Windows and Mac equivalents, but Ubuntu has a timed screenshot option. It would be fairly easy to just set the timer, go the the website, and wait. But I agree, most people probably won't care enough or think of it.

Re: Show HN: This page will disappear in 10,000 views

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post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This content disappears after 1,000 views unless you pay $5.

But if you have seen it, what's the incentive for paying money after the fact? If you haven't seen it then it's just the same as a paywall.

Because you want other people to read it.
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