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

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post #18

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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.

I feel like a better system would be "pay $5 and the pages don't expire for you".

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

#52
post #32

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What sort of issues does ab have?

Well the best thing would be to try it yourself. I have found: * ab has more results variation between runs * ab will almost always report lower performance than wrk * If you have two implementations being benchmarked, A and B and B is always faster than A. wrk will report a greater degree of performance separation between A and B. These results are less noticeable the lower performance the site being benchmarked is.

ab takes more CPU time than a decent web server too.

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

#54
post #42

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Because you want other people to read it.

select, copy, paste, share, the end.

select, copy, paste, share (copyright violation), the end.

It's kind of not OK to distribute other people's work when they don't want you to.

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

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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.

Even if there isn't one currently, windows exposes an interface to the screen through gdi+ which can be used in a C++ program, for example.

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

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post #21
post #19

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What is ab?

I didn't know either. Per "man ab": > ab - Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool

Without having to open the man page:

    $ whatis ab
    ab (1)               - Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool
Or with bsd-games installed:

    $ wtf ab
    ab: ab (1)               - Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool

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

#58

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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.

With quicktime player, one can just create a new screen recording, and wait.

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

#59
post #42

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select, copy, paste, share, the end.

select, copy, paste, share (copyright violation), the end. It's kind of not OK to distribute other people's work when they don't want you to.

Your users will still do it, and you won't be able to stop them.

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

#60
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…

The things that you mentioned, though perhaps relevant to the goal of the service, are outrageous from a usability standpoint. I really abhor the tendency for sites to gamify their services or erect gimmicks that impede my ability to interact with their content. I would immediately leave any site that employs the tactics you mentioned.

My time is too valuable for that kind of absurd bullshit.

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