Live data from Hacker News

Tell HN: t.co is adding a five-second delay to some domains

news.ycombinator.com

31–40 of 447 posts

Re: Tell HN: t.co is adding a five-second delay to some domains

#31
post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good. Hacker News isn't an open-ended political site for people to post weird propaganda.

How's archive.is "weird propaganda"?

It isn't banned in comments - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que..., https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que..., etc.

We probably banned it for submissions because we want original sources at the top level.

Re: Tell HN: t.co is adding a five-second delay to some domains

#33
post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Test yourself, they link to their site from their profile and it's definitely delayed. https://twitter.com/nytimes

A good test might include a bunch of domains. And checking the timing on each. Could we demonstrate the delay is on t.co and not on NYT?

I mean, a good test is to go to go to their website in another browser tab and click around. You're over-complicating this.

Re: Tell HN: t.co is adding a five-second delay to some domains

#35
post #20

I think that HN itself also shadow flags submissions from a list of domains it doesn't like. Try submitting a URL from the following domains, and it will be automatically flagged (but you can't see it's flagged unless you log out): - archive.is - watcher.guru - stacker.news - zerohedge.com - freebeacon.com - thefederalist.com - breitbart.com

Well, yes, many sites are banned on HN. Others are penalized (see e.g. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... ). None of this is secret, though we don't publish the lists themselves. Edit: about 67k sites are banned on HN. Here's a random selection of 10 of them: vodlockertv.com biggboss.org infoocode.com newyorkpersonalinjuryattorneyblog.com moringajuice.wordpress.com surrogacymumbai.com max…

Would be nice if the lists were published though with a link to the list from the submission form.

Re: Tell HN: t.co is adding a five-second delay to some domains

#36
post #15

I can confirm. NYT shows a five-second redirect delay: "wget https://t.co/4fs609qwWt ". It redirects to gov.uk immediately: "wget https://t.co/iigzas6QBx "

I almost didn't believe OP, because it's so comically inept and petty. But, I can also confirm in some private testing there is a deliberate delay.

Re: Tell HN: t.co is adding a five-second delay to some domains

#37
post #5

The speed at which enshitification is being unleashed surprises me each and every day.

Enshitification is different. It’s when companies destroy a product with hundreds of changes that prioritise internal politics above what end users want.

This is something else - just the ego of one rich guy petulantly satisfying his inner demons.

Re: Tell HN: t.co is adding a five-second delay to some domains

#39
post #15

I can confirm. NYT shows a five-second redirect delay: "wget https://t.co/4fs609qwWt ". It redirects to gov.uk immediately: "wget https://t.co/iigzas6QBx "

Agree/confirmed - just recorded a number of different nytimes urls that pass through t.co, all 4.7s+. various cnbc and google articles through t.co were ~130-200ms response time from t.co specifically (not total redirect->page load).

Re: Tell HN: t.co is adding a five-second delay to some domains

#40
post #2

you could maybe show some testing? if that's true, then it should be measurable

Test yourself, they link to their site from their profile and it's definitely delayed. https://twitter.com/nytimes

That's extremely slow..
Post reply on HN