Why do you exactly need to know my age to store my data?
As I'm based in the EU, I can't store personal data of children without the consent of a parent. So to make sure I added the form.
Show HN: Write a private diary using good old email
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#52Why exactly do you need to store my age to store my data (in the signup process)?
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#53Nice work. FYI pricing tables are not readable on my iPhone 8 in safari
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks! What browser do you use?
Got the issue too, it was not related to my browser but more likely to my email client that replaced more & with & than needed and broke the link. Edited the link manually and it worked.
Ouch! Firebase generates links for me but I'll take a look at what I can do.
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#55How do I update my Full Name? or change the newsletter subscription options? ∞?
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#56I love that you took the programmer equivalent of a writing cue and ran with it. And I think this is a really cool idea to explore. I know it's largely a one person experiment and not a real business, but some feedback > I won't sell your data and will be very personal with you. This isn't good enough anymore. You need to promise that my data won't ever _ever_ be sold. Especially since you're asking me to share my di…
No "promise" will make me share my diary with a stranger, not even a legally enforceable one, unless I self-censor my diary. Honestly not sure why anyone would entrust their diary to some web service, unless they take a nothing-to-hide approach with their diaries. Although, a web service to share notes with friends is probably okay.
"Diary" usually means personal and private. But it can mean a lot of things. I can imagine cases where people are okay with that. I've managed a personal "diary" that's on Github publically. It's really just a reference of tech stuff I've learned.
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#57Yesterday Paul Graham asked for an email diary service ( https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1216714155731890176 ): > Is there an easy way to build, or a startup that offers, something that will email you once a day asking "What's happening?" and then accumulate the replies? I did just that! Let me know what you think.
He also wrote > Unfortunately, though, in this one case I can't promise that if you build it, I'll use it. Unless I know you, I can't trust that you won't read my emails. (I trusted the previous startup that did it because we'd funded them.) How do you solve the "won't read my emails" problem ? I've seen the statement in your website: > Your data stored and transferred securely. No one will ever read or process your…
According to PG's Tweet, it seems quite simple - just fund them.
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#58>Private and Secure It’s as private as your email...which probably means not private. Like most people, I depend on an advertising company to host my emails. But I wouldn’t share my private diary with them.
Right, I didn't think of users' email servers spying on people. But to be fair, there're privacy-focused services, so it's possible.
Gmail has an autocomplete function which means it’s inherently reading everyone’s email (for training).
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#59Great job.
Here is what I propose to make it more secure and prevent you from being able to read anyone diary...
I propose that each day a link/token is sent to your email. The link then ask for a password that is handled only with client side javascript and does the encryption of the data before sending it do the server. Look at what Blockhain.info or myetherwallet is doing for client side encryption. Maybe also propose provide all the front end as opensource and provide a way for people to host their own front (a few HTML, JS files where you input the link or token sent to you by email...)
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
No "promise" will make me share my diary with a stranger, not even a legally enforceable one, unless I self-censor my diary. Honestly not sure why anyone would entrust their diary to some web service, unless they take a nothing-to-hide approach with their diaries. Although, a web service to share notes with friends is probably okay.
"Diary" usually means personal and private. But it can mean a lot of things. I can imagine cases where people are okay with that. I've managed a personal "diary" that's on Github publically. It's really just a reference of tech stuff I've learned.
> I've managed a personal "diary" that's on Github publically.
Well that's more of a journal. But yeah, a "diary" service can be used for less private stuff too.