Typo in first sign-up input box, should be "Your" name.
Show HN: my new project, an anti-snub dating site
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#42Ok, let me see. Back in 2005 a friend sent me one of these crush anonymously. I didn't want to guess on the site who it was, but I wanted to know who it was. They had this feature where you enter your email if you forgot your password. So, I thought to myself, not many of my friends would know about this site and whoever it is was probably the only person of my friends to be on it. So, I enter the list of female frie…
Lol ok nice one we gonna fix that like right now :) Thank to your twisted mind :p Thats why I love HN you always find your way around ;)
Avoiding information leakage, whether in terms of error cases (e.g. incorrect padding on crypto showing a different error, leading to a padding oracle attack) or in terms of user-facing content (e.g. exposing whether or not a username or email exists in the system) can be difficult. That said, you should always err on the side of showing a single message rather than multiple -- in this case, always show success. This is common practice in certain things, like always showing "incorrect username or password" rather than "incorrect username" and "incorrect password" messages, but most people don't consider it for other things.
The less data you give to users about state that isn't necessarily theirs, the better.
Re: Show HN: my new project, an anti-snub dating site
#43Typo in first sign-up input box, should be "Your" name.
Wow thank you! I dont know how we didnt saw that earlier :) It's fixed on local but there is too much people to deploy in production right now (ruby on rails power ) . We gonna update the website as soon as think are quieter (so I hope never ^^)
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#44I like this idea a lot, but you absolutely need to kill the logins and just use facebook connect. It solves so many problems with the service, and will help it go viral, AND will let people just point and click on their friend list.
Nice viral app, though! I hope it goes well. I bet you more than double if you use facebook for connection and messaging.
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#45In "I agree with the Terms of Service", there should be an obvious link style for "the Terms of Service". At first I was thinking "what terms of service?"
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
love to hear that :) Do you remember the name of the website back then?
I actually think he accented on "2003" and not on "big money". Anyway, I would suggest that you create a facebook application to go with the website, you could get quite a following.
Yeah, I was thinking the same - the site right now looks like something from the pre-social-networking era. I'm not sure if it's possible given FB's privacy/spam controls but that issue aside, doesn't this seem like it would work way better in that context? People usually have crushes on someone already at least in their wide circle of FB friends.
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#47The tone of the site is a little too business-ish. I can't pinpoint how, but (colors aside) it has the form of a business product like basecamp. Take a good look at http://www.hotornot.com/ . I don't have the design chops to explain why, but that site comes across as less serious. If you can find more fun consumer sites that have been successful you should be able to identify some common design techniques.
Hmm ok I get what you want to say. We are not native english speaker so sometime we are a little afraid to go by the "humor road" and be a little off.
But you are right so we gonna A/B test our jokes real HN style ;)
Re: Show HN: my new project, an anti-snub dating site
#48Ok, let me see. Back in 2005 a friend sent me one of these crush anonymously. I didn't want to guess on the site who it was, but I wanted to know who it was. They had this feature where you enter your email if you forgot your password. So, I thought to myself, not many of my friends would know about this site and whoever it is was probably the only person of my friends to be on it. So, I enter the list of female frie…
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Lol ok nice one we gonna fix that like right now :) Thank to your twisted mind :p Thats why I love HN you always find your way around ;)
Avoiding information leakage, whether in terms of error cases (e.g. incorrect padding on crypto showing a different error, leading to a padding oracle attack) or in terms of user-facing content (e.g. exposing whether or not a username or email exists in the system) can be difficult. That said, you should always err on the side of showing a single message rather than multiple -- in this case, always show success. This…
Ew no, don't always show success, there surely has to be a more elegant solution. I have multiple email addresses and sometimes I'll use a different one for a different service, if I enter email@website.com when I used email@anotherwebsite.com and you show success when it's the wrong one, I'll be waiting for an email that will never appear...
Maybe HN can work out a good solution collectively? I can only think of a secondary authentication piece, but then that's also possible to be forgotten.
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#50An idea for you: give users the option to send flowers (or anything else, for that matter). When the email is sent to the crush, it might say: "your secret crush would like to send you flowers. please fill in your address" or something. The initiator's credit card it charged if the crush fills in the address. You make money off the flower shop affiliate referral.
Eh, whatever happened to doing the good old fashioned leg work yourself?
For the men: There isn't a woman in the world who will be impressed by saying "Can you fill out this form so I can send you flowers?"