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Show HN my holiday project: thingsand.me, simple image blogging

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Re: Show HN my holiday project: thingsand.me, simple image blogging

#11

Very impressed. A few minor points though: I'm using Firefox 3.6.13 on a Macbook and every page appears to be a pixel or a few pixels wider than the window meaning there is an unnecessary horizontal scrollbar. It doesn't look very good. The login could do with SSL protection. If you don't have cookies enabled, trying to log in complains about a CSRF error. Might be worth detecting cookies being disabled and putting u…

Also, you need a privacy policy so people know what you can/will do with their data.

And terms and conditions which deal with your rights and your users rights, and which explicitly deal with copyrighted data concerns.

Re: Show HN my holiday project: thingsand.me, simple image blogging

#12

Very impressed. A few minor points though: I'm using Firefox 3.6.13 on a Macbook and every page appears to be a pixel or a few pixels wider than the window meaning there is an unnecessary horizontal scrollbar. It doesn't look very good. The login could do with SSL protection. If you don't have cookies enabled, trying to log in complains about a CSRF error. Might be worth detecting cookies being disabled and putting u…

Also, you need a privacy policy so people know what you can/will do with their data. And terms and conditions which deal with your rights and your users rights, and which explicitly deal with copyrighted data concerns.

Also. A Facebook app would be good so people who decide to upload their photos to your website can still make them available within Facebook to their friends. Most people aren't going to want to upload to more than one site, or upload to one site and then have to log into another site to post links to it.

Re: Show HN my holiday project: thingsand.me, simple image blogging

#15
A little security tip:

http://thingsand.me/media/images/image_228.html

Your uploader is blindly trusting the file extension for an image being uploaded. It's possible to upload valid images that contain HTML or other content within them.

Deletions are also done via a GET request, which makes them vulnerable to a CSRF attack. An attacker can figure out the URL for a deletion based on the content of the post: once they've done that, all they have to do is trick the user into visiting a site controlled by the attacker.

Re: Show HN my holiday project: thingsand.me, simple image blogging

#17
post #15

A little security tip: http://thingsand.me/media/images/image_228.html Your uploader is blindly trusting the file extension for an image being uploaded. It's possible to upload valid images that contain HTML or other content within them. Deletions are also done via a GET request, which makes them vulnerable to a CSRF attack. An attacker can figure out the URL for a deletion based on the content of the post: once they…

Thanks, I'll check this out!

Re: Show HN my holiday project: thingsand.me, simple image blogging

#19
I like this a lot and the barrier to entry is really low. Plus the simple design is a major plus.

What's a big negative to me is the design of my feed. It's actually what's preventing me from sharing this with my friends who are fellow designes/creatives. Specifically too much real estate for the sort option on the right, dropshadows are little bit distracting, and do you need "Thing from?" Just by having the URL, I can tell that's the source.

I think what makes more sense is if the tags run across the top horizontally (above the images), and there is an add button. The reason is so that the grid remains completely full width across your container and so more results are per row.

This would also help put the name of the person above the image results instead of to the right.

Re: Show HN my holiday project: thingsand.me, simple image blogging

#20
post #18

It would be cool if the bookmarklet text was "♥".

As a sucker for unicode hearts I'll test this out. Great idea

In case you didn't know, weheartit.com's extension symbol is a heart. Might be confusing for users of both services.
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