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Re: Show HN: Hacker Spring – Instant blog by email, no signup required

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gitgud wrote: post #57
hacker256 wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unlisted posting is complete. If you send to topic.unlisted@hackerspring.com (or anytopic.unlisted@hackerspring.com) the post will not show up in new/popular/categories. However, it will still show up in your user view. If you want it to be visible with a link only and not even show on your user page, you can send to anytopic.linkonly@hackerpsring.com. Anonymous posting is coming next!

You could implement email like Craigslist do with an "email relay". That way the users email is hidden with an anonymous alias. But people can still reply to that alias email.

This is a great idea. I've actually started down this path a bit, and will add the actual email relay tomorrow!

Re: Show HN: Hacker Spring – Instant blog by email, no signup required

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Post by hacker256 »

plibither8 wrote: post #23
hacker256 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you! The animation site was actually just to show that you could attach a javascript file and embed it in your e-mail! https://hackerspring.com/p/protonmail.com/hackerspring/5ec06... Is an example without the javascript!

But... why? Giving a user complete control over JS code that will run directly off the site is inherently an unsafe idea, for you and for the user.

Sorry about that, a more serious answer: There are already hundreds of thousands of webhosts who offer Javascript hosting - what makes this one any less safe?

Re: Show HN: Hacker Spring – Instant blog by email, no signup required

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Post by hacker256 »

gitgud wrote: post #58
hacker256 wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is silly. Does google tell you if a site is using JS? Does HN? What "abuse" is available? Also, it's been more than 5 minutes. Looks like you are wrong.

Well cross site forgery and cross site scripting are a few things that people might do, but I don't think it's a big deal

Agreed.

We offer a public API with no access, so there is limited risk and, in addition, we do not use cookies. There are some dangers, but it's really limited in this context!

An attacker can just as easily perform the same attacks with free webhosting on any of the thousands of free webhosts!

Re: Show HN: Hacker Spring – Instant blog by email, no signup required

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Post by hacker256 »

chrismatheson wrote: post #30
andrefuchs wrote: post #18

This reminds me of a blogging by email service I used called Posterous. Loved it but got shut down after Twitter bought it.

I was just thinking the same. It was the first platform I actually used for quite a while.

Nice! I hope you'll give this a shot too! :-)

Re: Show HN: Hacker Spring – Instant blog by email, no signup required

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Post by hacker256 »

loks5 wrote: post #33

I have typed my website URL wrong. How do I edit?

There is no edit, but you can delete and repost! Just go to your sent mailbox and find the email, click on the mail you sent us, and hit reply. Then type "$DELETEME" as the first text in the body.

https://hackerspring.com/faq/

Re: Show HN: Hacker Spring – Instant blog by email, no signup required

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Post by hacker256 »

generalpass wrote: post #44

On consideration, I would prefer if it worked without js. Since the whole site requires js to load content, clicking on someone's post that has js that effs with my computer is something I prefer to avoid. At the very least, label a post that has js so I don't click it, if you are going to require the site to function with js. Is it really necessary that every link opens in a new tab?

It now indicates that there is a script by putting [JS] next to the title. Links that redirect elsewhere have an arrow in the post title appended!

Thanks for the suggestion!

Re: Show HN: Hacker Spring – Instant blog by email, no signup required

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Post by YungSven »

kart23 wrote: post #29
samstave wrote: post #13

There was a service a while back - I cant recall what it was - but it would send you a question via email asking what you did today and you would reply to it and it would keep a history... I cant recall what that was now though. I really like this though. --- Custom URLs? I am going to try this right now. What happens.... WAIT A MINUTE. HOL' UP. SOMETHIN AINT RIGHT. This exposes your email to anyone on Hackerspring.…

Spoof the from header and you're golden.

What do you mean by spoofing the from header? I do not know much about mail spoofing.
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