what is gonna prevent someone from upvoting their own (or alt accounts', or friends') hundreds of post, inflating away the value of a single upvote?
Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
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#582Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oof, I clicked one of those posts and immediately lost all back-button functionality to an endless stream of history events.
Also, when I visit the #all page I get two weird window.alert()’s, first says 5, second says 1. I’m on mobile Safari now so can’t really investigate, but is the site getting script injected??
Yes, the site is vulnerable to XSS, couple of interesting payloads on there so far
The current top post uses this XSS to have users upvote it:
Which sends a POST request to `posttag/add-vote` for the post labeled `x`
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This is definitely the idea, but are there enough educated consumers willing to spend money to avoid being trapped in shittified experiences? That's the question that matters.
“Enough” is relative, how many do you really need to sustain the site?
Paying the servers is not enough. For it to have a future, it really needs paid employees. See also: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZpDnRCeef2CLEFeKM/money-the-...
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#584On the provided link I’m unable to register on safari, the pop up shows up for a second then goes away.
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#585Earlier quoted context omitted.
Today you can still use iframes but most gateways now provide a tokenization api that provides the form to produce the tokenized cc. Afaik tokenized cc isn't falling under PCI. My big issues with iframes is the checkout process which inevitably has to make callbacks to your api with the results of the transaction. If you're behind any sort of firewall (like most businesses are) you're in for a world of http pain.
The payment gateways still use iframes, they just don’t tell you that. This is also why styling such forms is always some species of wonky.
The gateways I use don't, or at least give me the option not to.
Those iFrames cause all kinds of headaches when the user hits the back button or double clicks a submit button or does any number of other things that happen thousands of times a day on a moderately high traffic site, and when it messes up you either miss out on a sale (ouch) or charge the customer twice (double ouch).
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#586I'd like to be able to view content when not logged in. Also, the site is not mobile friendly, which is my primary method of access for these types of sites.
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#587Congrats on the hard work, and the idea is fine, but the problem is that tech like this is a cheap commodity in a massively oversaturated space, and without a hook that makes the platform exceptional (innovative/clever/beautiful design, unique aggregation features, inherently interesting content, reimagined user/content/moderation dynamics etc etc), this kind of thing is dead in the water because it lacks a network e…
I love the idea. Reddit was the best of the social media platforms. That it's open source, means we can help fix these things. I'd love to help.
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#588Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah one key missing feature is subreddit creation and moderation. Without all the free labor from moderators curating content for topics with different tastes and ideas about what the community should be, it's going to be a struggle to build a community.
Maybe that extra dollar should go to the mods? And the communities get to elect their mods so they can be held accountable. Maybe we won't get the MrBabyMan or POTATO_IN_MY_ANUS situation.
I am both amused by those names you cited, and absolutely not asking what they are.
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#589The idea of posters getting real money instead of fake internet points when their posts do well seems interesting, but maybe an unintentional experiment in unintended consequences. Moderation will be extremely important to prevent low-effort memes and content regurgitation and the like from saturating your main channels. Have you considered how you will encourage moderation and keep it free from the corrosive influen…
>Moderation will be extremely important to prevent low-effort memes and content regurgitation and the like from saturating your main channels
This idea more or less surfaces in the book "Fall; or, Dodge in Hell", where in the not-too-distant future the internet is so polluted that you are pretty much expected to hire a full-time "editor" to curate your social media feed. This doesn't scale particularly well, of course, so in reality particularly wealthy families hire an editor to present a cohesive stream of social media to their whole family-tree. Meanwhile the masses typically subscribe to an "off the shelf" stream (or several?) that most closely matches their tastes.
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“Enough” is relative, how many do you really need to sustain the site?
Paying the servers is not enough. For it to have a future, it really needs paid employees. See also: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZpDnRCeef2CLEFeKM/money-the-...
Couldn't disagree more, both on future vision of what this could be, as well as the implication that I said, "paying the servers is enough." "Sustain the site" involves growing the site, but none of that involves obtaining millions of users.
Also lesswrong is a cesspool of pseudointellectual bullshit. Eliezer Yudkowsky's ideas don't stand up to reality on average, and the people who "follow" him tend not to understand the relationship between methods of thinking about the world and methods of predicting how the world will behave.