Bad Rails conventions got me a weekend stay with the CEO of Airbnb

> Brian volunteering to host and entertain total strangers represents the importance of placing your customer front-and-center at every company stage. Brian could be "beyond that." He's not. He wants to see the details of what being a host is like so he can improve his product.

So much simping... a CEO of a small company worships at the altar of a CEO of a unicorn.

Maybe Brian should book random airbnbs next, ones that don't exist or have cockroaches as other guests. And then try calling support and getting his money back, without flashing his User ID = 3 badge...

Re: Bad Rails conventions got me a weekend stay with the CEO of Airbnb

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Nov 08, 2023, 9:20 PM UTC

carabiner wrote: post #2

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Re: Bad Rails conventions got me a weekend stay with the CEO of Airbnb

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Post by davetron5000 » Wed, Nov 08, 2023, 9:25 PM UTC

To save anyone a click, the author figured that AirBnB's urls had monotonically increasing numeric ids, which is the Rails default, and figured out that the AirBnB CEO's id was 3, and got the direct link before it was shared publicly.

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Post by graphe » Wed, Nov 08, 2023, 9:29 PM UTC

carabiner wrote: post #2

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They'll have to deal with the companies like blackrock who was buying out the supply of homes and making them uninhabitable and forcing them to resell it. That would make a much greater difference than Airbnb.

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Nov 08, 2023, 9:29 PM UTC

davetron5000 wrote: post #5

To save anyone a click, the author figured that AirBnB's urls had monotonically increasing numeric ids, which is the Rails default, and figured out that the AirBnB CEO's id was 3, and got the direct link before it was shared publicly.

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Post by xutopia » Wed, Nov 08, 2023, 9:32 PM UTC

carabiner wrote: post #2

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Why aren't you saying the same thing about hotels? They're taking up space that could be made into living quarters for people.

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Post by wilg » Wed, Nov 08, 2023, 9:35 PM UTC

This article doesn’t make good on its claim to explain why this “Rails convention” is bad. It’s probably actually good. I wouldn’t have clicked on it otherwise. Rude, IMO.

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Post by gaogao » Wed, Nov 08, 2023, 9:40 PM UTC

wilg wrote: post #9

This article doesn’t make good on its claim to explain why this “Rails convention” is bad. It’s probably actually good. I wouldn’t have clicked on it otherwise. Rude, IMO.

It's pretty common outside of rails too, like https://facebook.com/4

Some main weaknesses, if I recall correctly, is that's incremental ids make scraping pretty easy, or guessing content outside of a URL given explicitly by the service (like here).