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A minimalistic site to vent and see others doing the same in realtime

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Re: A minimalistic site to vent and see others doing the same in realtime

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Sorry, would you mind explaining what this will do?

Improper input sanitation, you can potentially add raw html to other people's pages (XSS).

Doesn't the regex sanitize it before display?

Re: A minimalistic site to vent and see others doing the same in realtime

#122

This is great. It fills the same role as Twitter, but people's posts disappear after a few seconds, making it better than Twitter. I'm serious here. Twitter's a cesspool filled with people venting about random crap. So is Ventscape. We all need to vent sometimes, there's nothing inherently wrong with that. But the problem with Twitter is that it preserves and amplifies your venting until the end of time, which is the…

> This is great. It fills the same role as Twitter, but people's posts disappear after a few seconds, making it better than Twitter. Also like Jodel it is anonymous[1], which is a good thing whenever possible as has become obvious lately. [1]: wrt other users. Random nutjobs of all shapes cannot easily find you and nobody can verify if Jodel have really banned someone so they can to a larger degree do what they think…

> Threaten someone however and police will have your adress shortly.

Impugn someone who’s well lawyered-up, and your contact info may be demanded by a order pursuant to a lawsuit for defamation, yes?

Re: A minimalistic site to vent and see others doing the same in realtime

#125

This was briefly interesting and then I quickly started to see blatant racism, threats and rape accusations.

Maybe publishing the IP addresses of those is the real "show HN" that we'll see next week.

Reminds me of that Black Mirror episode

Re: A minimalistic site to vent and see others doing the same in realtime

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Improper input sanitation, you can potentially add raw html to other people's pages (XSS).

Doesn't the regex sanitize it before display?

Yes but it's pretty easily bypassed

Re: A minimalistic site to vent and see others doing the same in realtime

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Looks like it caps off at 2,000, and we're currently at 130K+ messages

what does this mean?

The API returns at most 2000 messages at a time (this might have changed since I last tried), and last I looked the message IDs were around 130K, meaning that's how messages there have been.

Re: A minimalistic site to vent and see others doing the same in realtime

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post #112
post #90

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That's terrible. OP should take the site down and fix those issues.

Yeah, go ahead and down vote without explaining yourself. It's so educational!

My guess is that you were downvoted because you sound like you are talking about a very important system with a huge number of users that could have catastrophic consequences if the vulnerability is not fixed. It's just a project from a novice programmer having fun. Hence, no need to take the site down.
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