Things I learned after getting users
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Things I learned after getting users
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Re: Things I learned after getting users
#2Man, on the abuse front—it’s amazing the lengths that people will go through to put spam on the web. There are apparently canned solutions for pushing stuff to any Mediawiki site, although I found that a really stupid captcha¹ was enough to bring that down almost to zero, but early on with rejectionwiki, I had the same sort of chronic abuser things happening that are described in the article.
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1. Basically a set of really obvious questions, like “Who wrote Hamlet?” and what’s “Shakespeare’s first name?” that any writer (for whom the site is targeted) should be able to answer.
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#3> some users have suggested pretty smart features that i've since implemented, like this back-to-top button to quickly get back to the top of the page
To me all position:fixed elements (headers, footers, this back-to-top button, etc) feel like a kind of annoying dirt on the screen. Their absence is a big part of why I love the web 1.0 aesthetic.
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#4> when the site first got a surge of users from hacker news, there was one poster in particular who came to the site, registered a bunch of offensive, racist usernames and proceeded to post and create threads that were just full of dumb slurs. this was definitely a learning experience because i had to act quickly, so i tried a bunch of different methods to get rid of him.
it's sad that people like this exist in the world. what could possibly motivate someone to spend their time doing this?
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#5Are you paying for Sentry? What type of monitoring does it provide? I'm working on a project I'd like to add some monitoring so I'm on the lookout for a good solution. Looking for something free though until there's a need to have better insight than I can get without paying for it
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#6Man, on the abuse front—it’s amazing the lengths that people will go through to put spam on the web. There are apparently canned solutions for pushing stuff to any Mediawiki site, although I found that a really stupid captcha¹ was enough to bring that down almost to zero, but early on with rejectionwiki, I had the same sort of chronic abuser things happening that are described in the article. ⸻ 1. Basically a set of…
> Basically a set of really obvious questions, like “Who wrote Hamlet?” and what’s “Shakespeare’s first name?” that any writer (for whom the site is targeted) should be able to answer.
Given that ChatGPT exists now, I assume these questions will need to be replaced with something harder to automate.
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#7Are you paying for Sentry? What type of monitoring does it provide? I'm working on a project I'd like to add some monitoring so I'm on the lookout for a good solution. Looking for something free though until there's a need to have better insight than I can get without paying for it
My team got really far using something called GlitchTip. It's compatible with the Sentry SDKs, but really cheap, so it felt like there were minimal consequences to switch if we ever had the need to. We only switched to Sentry cause our company was acquired and they already had a Sentry subscription going.
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#8>listen to your users. they might have better ideas than you!
So true. My products have improved greatly from listening to (some!) user feedback.
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#9Man, on the abuse front—it’s amazing the lengths that people will go through to put spam on the web. There are apparently canned solutions for pushing stuff to any Mediawiki site, although I found that a really stupid captcha¹ was enough to bring that down almost to zero, but early on with rejectionwiki, I had the same sort of chronic abuser things happening that are described in the article. ⸻ 1. Basically a set of…
> Basically a set of really obvious questions, like “Who wrote Hamlet?” and what’s “Shakespeare’s first name?” that any writer (for whom the site is targeted) should be able to answer. Given that ChatGPT exists now, I assume these questions will need to be replaced with something harder to automate.
ChatGPT would be an extremely expensive way to answer these questions.
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#10> when the site first got a surge of users from hacker news, there was one poster in particular who came to the site, registered a bunch of offensive, racist usernames and proceeded to post and create threads that were just full of dumb slurs. this was definitely a learning experience because i had to act quickly, so i tried a bunch of different methods to get rid of him. it's sad that people like this exist in the w…
Attention seeking + lack of moral compass.