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Re: Show HN: Find journalists, bloggers and webmasters covering your niche

#31

I like the concept, and signed up to give it a try. I searched for "running route builder", and after about 15 minutes it just showed "Error". I'm keen to actually give it a try though if this can be corrected!

Sorry about that. We've been dealing with a lot of traffic for the last two days and some errors were happening due to high load. We're looking into fixing these issues.

Re: Show HN: Find journalists, bloggers and webmasters covering your niche

#35

I've got a "Can not load stored data from the server." message when I click to open the generated list. my user id: 67a13535-58a9-4d4a-b8bf-3dcd91b46e8f I couldn't find any support channel in the app itself.

Please use contact@postbag.co to get in touch.

Re: Show HN: Find journalists, bloggers and webmasters covering your niche

#36

Some feedback: the signup process is difficult. I signed up, 32-char password, but it doesn't have a special character, so I had to regen. Ok fine, whatever. Then a captcha. At least it's not one of the ones that shows a new picture each time you click so you're endlessly clicking buses or manhole covers for 45 seconds. But I get captcha, whatever. Ok, so I sign up, and now I have to confirm my email. But...it's not…

You’ll be glad to know that Password1! passed muster.

In other words, if you didn’t already know it, this site is enforcing terrible security practice, and not trying to filter out known-bad passwords. (zxcvbn would laugh at you for trying that. Basically every site that deals with setting passwords should use it.)

The reason it’s terrible security practice is that literally most people will just capitalise the first letter, or add a one, or add an exclamation mark, so it adds roughly no security while making people use passwords that they can’t remember, so they store them insecurely, &c. Sure, people should use password managers and all that, but they don’t.

Re: Show HN: Find journalists, bloggers and webmasters covering your niche

#37
Man.. From the title I was hoping this would be a way to find people doing long form writing on niche topics.

For the site - Your primary color/white combo used for your CTAs and links doesn't meet WCAG contrast ratios. You are running the risk of hindering users by reducing their ability to read text.

Re: Show HN: Find journalists, bloggers and webmasters covering your niche

#38
I tried two queries: “audiobook” and “rust programming language”.

“audiobook” produced passable results.

“rust programming language” produced 100% garbage: in its 167 Tier1 matches (I didn’t look further) not one was in any way related to Rust or even to programming; and only a few were related to languages. From the titles, most matches were probably derived from the word “rust”, though not many past the first dozen or so were about rust in any way—it was more commonly “yeah, I can imagine that rust might be mentioned once in that article”. The rest I have no idea where they came from, I can’t see how any of the keywords would have matched.

Re: Show HN: Find journalists, bloggers and webmasters covering your niche

#39

Some feedback: the signup process is difficult. I signed up, 32-char password, but it doesn't have a special character, so I had to regen. Ok fine, whatever. Then a captcha. At least it's not one of the ones that shows a new picture each time you click so you're endlessly clicking buses or manhole covers for 45 seconds. But I get captcha, whatever. Ok, so I sign up, and now I have to confirm my email. But...it's not…

I agree, too many steps. I already logged in, why do i have to type my email again?
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