Spoiler for anyone interested https://imgur.com/U4XxbDZ
was starting to think it was just a scam to see how long people would wait
Dumb website only lets one user in at a time
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Re: Dumb website only lets one user in at a time
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just noticed that the video about donating to charities ends with the narrator trailing off with "I don't know what I should say". I am surprised we decided to upload those videos. It might have been during the time when people weren't being paid regularly
It sounds like this was a terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible company. I suppose it's telling that a Google search mostly turns up your story about the company, and an assortment of random mentions from a decade and a half ago. How did Sayagle die in the end?
ran out of money
Re: Dumb website only lets one user in at a time
#63You can see the page from the source code: Congratulations Only you can see this website. Don't leave or you'll lose your spot.
Looks like it's no longer in the html source, but it can still be viewed in the javascript source code: if (status === "inside") { text.push("i am the only person who can see this website."); text.push(link); if (waiting > 1) { text.push(`${queueLength - 1} people are waiting to get in.`); } text.push("want to see it? get in line, sucker."); } else { text.push("only one person at a time gets to see this website."); t…
I believe that's only the tweet text and not the page content when you are "inside" in the JS.
That code is in the tweetUrl function and later on it returns an encoded twitter url.
Re: Dumb website only lets one user in at a time
#64Not at all the same thing I admit, but the company I work for has a product that limits the number of transactions (per user) to 1. Where "transaction" is roughly equivalent to an HTTP request. So if you run a query that takes 30 seconds, get bored, open up a new tab to do something else in the product, your new tab will hang until the transaction in the previous tab has completed. I hate it. There is a special URL t…
A national train company where I live in limits the number of transactions (per user) to 1. Where "transaction" is roughly equivalent to a browser tab - the website will aggressively scold you if you try to open another tab and refuse to load!
I think it's realated to the session mess they have in the backend but it's very annoying (especially when buying train tickets and comparing offers, of all things).
Re: Dumb website only lets one user in at a time
#65You're dumb.
Re: Dumb website only lets one user in at a time
#66Not at all the same thing I admit, but the company I work for has a product that limits the number of transactions (per user) to 1. Where "transaction" is roughly equivalent to an HTTP request. So if you run a query that takes 30 seconds, get bored, open up a new tab to do something else in the product, your new tab will hang until the transaction in the previous tab has completed. I hate it. There is a special URL t…
A manager thought that they could reduce scope on implementing proper rate limiting after a postmortem or how does this appear?
Maybe some transactions write state, instead of merely querying?
Re: Dumb website only lets one user in at a time
#67Glad folks are enjoying this silly project! If you want to know more, I wrote something about it back when I made it: https://hoffm.medium.com/hey-look-at-us-3a742993f5c
I'm seeing:
" failed to start application on imherefor.me
This is most likely because your project has a code error.
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#68Re: Dumb website only lets one user in at a time
#69Upon visiting the website:
failed to start application on imherefor.me
This is most likely because your project has a code error.
Check your project logs, fix the error and try again
Re: Dumb website only lets one user in at a time
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ha. When I moved into my town, the public library's online book search was only turned on from 9-5, monday through saturday. Apparently it was so unstable they didn't want anyone trying to use it unless they had an IT guy on hand? I'm guessing? Anyway, they eventually outsourced to bibliocommons, but oy, what a ridiculous limitation to have as late as 2007.
A local pizza place has a website that closes outside of business hours. Which is infuriating if you're trying to figure out business hours in the first place.
So its running on a computer in their restaurant, and someone shuts it off when they leave. : - )