Thank you for this post. I've been looking into using Livecoding in the exact same way the author has, and now know that it is not the platform for me.
Maybe there is space for a competitor?
My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga
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Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga
#222Dear Liza: We're gobsmacked to find an actual female posting to Hacker News. Cool! It's nice to see the ladies posting about something other than makeup or boy problems. Could you let us know what your posting schedule for HN would be? And if you have any other friends with ovaries who know vim from vi could you get them posting regularly, preferably scantily clad or at least posting an occasional screen shot of thei…
I'm going to assume that this is a seriously misfired joke instead of the bannable offense it initially looked like, but please don't post anything like this to HN.
Choice is a) seriously misfired joke. Was satirizing the Livecoding people. Feel free to ban, though. If HN is too delicate for satire I suspect I'm a bad fit.
Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga
#223So, 12 hours on and the account still hasn't been deleted... I mean, at this point you have to assume none of the co-founders has the ability to delete it (because common sense would suggest they would have by now, if they could have, to mitigate the on-going public-relations disaster) probably because they outsourced all of their development and really have no clue about how their website actually works. Under norma…
> at this point you have to assume none of the co-founders has the ability to delete it
Perhaps they were hoping that OP would stream a how-to.
Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga
#224So, 12 hours on and the account still hasn't been deleted... I mean, at this point you have to assume none of the co-founders has the ability to delete it (because common sense would suggest they would have by now, if they could have, to mitigate the on-going public-relations disaster) probably because they outsourced all of their development and really have no clue about how their website actually works. Under norma…
If deleting some rows is not feasible, I would even suggest special-casing the page and making it redirect to the 404 page, even though the user data would be still there. I mean, do somethimg. Seeing the issue not resolved even after the founder recognized the problem is utterly painful.
Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga
#225Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm going to assume that this is a seriously misfired joke instead of the bannable offense it initially looked like, but please don't post anything like this to HN.
Choice is a) seriously misfired joke. Was satirizing the Livecoding people. Feel free to ban, though. If HN is too delicate for satire I suspect I'm a bad fit.
I don't know what your comment said, but just remember that Livecoding is funded by Ycombinator.
Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga
#226So, 12 hours on and the account still hasn't been deleted... I mean, at this point you have to assume none of the co-founders has the ability to delete it (because common sense would suggest they would have by now, if they could have, to mitigate the on-going public-relations disaster) probably because they outsourced all of their development and really have no clue about how their website actually works. Under norma…
If deleting some rows is not feasible, I would even suggest special-casing the page and making it redirect to the 404 page, even though the user data would be still there. I mean, do somethimg. Seeing the issue not resolved even after the founder recognized the problem is utterly painful.
I think it's hilarious. Maybe they aren't taking it down because it's getting so many hits.
edit: They'll be marketing it as "look at this huge spike in traffic we got this month" when talking to advertisers and content creators.
Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga
#227Earlier quoted context omitted.
If deleting some rows is not feasible, I would even suggest special-casing the page and making it redirect to the 404 page, even though the user data would be still there. I mean, do somethimg. Seeing the issue not resolved even after the founder recognized the problem is utterly painful.
I think it's hilarious. Maybe they aren't taking it down because it's getting so many hits. edit: They'll be marketing it as "look at this huge spike in traffic we got this month" when talking to advertisers and content creators.
Or maybe they think any PR is good PR
Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga
#228So, 12 hours on and the account still hasn't been deleted... I mean, at this point you have to assume none of the co-founders has the ability to delete it (because common sense would suggest they would have by now, if they could have, to mitigate the on-going public-relations disaster) probably because they outsourced all of their development and really have no clue about how their website actually works. Under norma…
> So, 12 hours on and the account still hasn't been deleted...
... and the creepy, libel-ful* profile still stands:
DICE.COM EMPLOYEE SPAMMING LIVECODING.TV
Liza Shulyayeva banned for spamming. WORKS FOR DICE.com and is just spamming Livecoding.tv
BANNED FROM LIVECODING.TV FOR SPAMMING
BANNED FROM LIVECODING.TV FOR SPAMMING+
BANNED FROM LIVECODING.TV FOR SPAMMING
Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga
#229So, 12 hours on and the account still hasn't been deleted... I mean, at this point you have to assume none of the co-founders has the ability to delete it (because common sense would suggest they would have by now, if they could have, to mitigate the on-going public-relations disaster) probably because they outsourced all of their development and really have no clue about how their website actually works. Under norma…
Wouldn't it be fabulous if they live streamed someone writing the code for an account deletion feature?
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#230Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's odd, their domain name suggests they are based in the small island nation of Tuvalu.
There are more oddities like that: The government of the state of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany uses for most official websites the domain .sh, which actually belongs to Saint Helena. At this point almost all domains on .sh actually belong to companies or governmental entities in Schleswig-Holstein, the remaining domains mostly belong to geeks using it due to the similarity to the file ending .sh for shell files. Exa…
> Many more such cases exist all around the world
Yep. The Minnesota House of Representatives and Senate use http://www.house.mn/ and http://www.senate.mn/ respectively. It's really strange to see a government agency use a TLD belonging to a foreign country.