Show HN: UrlRoulette – Pass a URL to the next visitor
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Show HN: UrlRoulette – Pass a URL to the next visitor
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Re: Show HN: UrlRoulette – Pass a URL to the next visitor
#2Says my URL https://www.qkast.com is invalid.
Re: Show HN: UrlRoulette – Pass a URL to the next visitor
#3Says my URL https://www.qkast.com is invalid.
That's odd. UrlRoulette does some sanity checking on the content of the URL. Thank you for this bug report!
Re: Show HN: UrlRoulette – Pass a URL to the next visitor
#4I like this idea but there is a lot of porn. Can you block the porn?
Re: Show HN: UrlRoulette – Pass a URL to the next visitor
#5I like this idea but there is a lot of porn. Can you block the porn?
Well, I'm not exactly sure about how to do that. I could implement a list of all the major porn sites, but then people could still post porn URL using URL shorteners...
Re: Show HN: UrlRoulette – Pass a URL to the next visitor
#6I like this idea but there is a lot of porn. Can you block the porn?
I second this. Here is a big list of websites to filter.
Re: Show HN: UrlRoulette – Pass a URL to the next visitor
#7I like this idea but there is a lot of porn. Can you block the porn?
> but there is a lot of porn
Rule 44 - When the URL says "roulette", there's lots of porn abound.
Re: Show HN: UrlRoulette – Pass a URL to the next visitor
#8I used it a few times in a row, posting different ones of my bookmarks (for example, Isaac Asimov's Last Question and Last Answer stories), and at one point got my own link back.
Due to the low-quality links I always got before that I had first assumed it was just... garbage, but it seems it's just the users.
UPDATE: I've now tried about a dozen times (each time providing a link that isn't porn and contains informational content), and got 9 porn links, 1 racist site, and 2 actually interesting links, one of which seemed to have been added by an HNer: contentful.com
Re: Show HN: UrlRoulette – Pass a URL to the next visitor
#9I like this idea but there is a lot of porn. Can you block the porn?
Well, I'm not exactly sure about how to do that. I could implement a list of all the major porn sites, but then people could still post porn URL using URL shorteners...
This is actually a good point, but I'd imagine people put down a porn website out of pure impulse when trying this service, so having their URL rejected with a friendly warning would certainly reduce the amount of porn spam. You could also block common URL shorteners.
This is a really cool app though!
Re: Show HN: UrlRoulette – Pass a URL to the next visitor
#10I used it a few times in a row, posting different ones of my bookmarks (for example, Isaac Asimov's Last Question and Last Answer stories), and at one point got my own link back. Due to the low-quality links I always got before that I had first assumed it was just... garbage, but it seems it's just the users. UPDATE: I've now tried about a dozen times (each time providing a link that isn't porn and contains informati…
Yes, UrlRoulette tries its best not to redirect you to the links that you submitted - that would be boring.
All the low-quality stuff: yes, that's the other users! :)