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Still opened in HTML view for me
Does anyone know what the URL should be to get the right effect?
The current URL works for me.
Home Loss File System
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#92But why does this not exist for those who already lost their homes years ago and are living on the streets? A bunch of rich home owners have their houses burned down it's an emergency. Tens of thousands of homeless people live on the streets and nobody bats an eye. Just saying.
From the first (most top-voted) post in this thread from the person who put this together, states:
"We've disseminated 2700 of the physical file boxes to fire survivors over the last 15 years and excited about what the digital resource can become."
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What an awesome awesome way to make light of what you’ve gone through. This is gonna help so many people in LA! (Also hi from just a little bit up the 15 if you’re still in scripps ranch :))
We are no longer in Scripps Ranch - my parents sold their land and moved to Solana Beach. :D I'm up in the SF Bay Area myself.
Solana Beach isn't too bad either :)
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#94Is there a resource for what to do before an event like this?
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#95You have to remove "/htmlview" from the URL, otherwise the "File > Make a copy" interface is not available
Thank you, I was wondering about this. For anyone else that's curious, the original URL looked like
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TPeJzW5pa-BiJZjuEa1y...
I didn't know /htmlview was a feature of Google Sheets. neat
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
Still opened in HTML view for me
Does anyone know what the URL should be to get the right effect?
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Wikipedia is literally a website that does this and has existed for >2 decades at this point.
Yes, let me just go pop my personal contents and insurance details on wikipedia as myself and my family track, update and modify the structure of the page.
Not sure why you feel justified in this level of snarkiness, given that i responded to a very specific claim:
>No website offers that kind of ease of use for _adding_ information
Obviously Wikipedia isn't great to upload your social security number to, but it does allow democratic adding of information which I cited it as an example of.
Please read the HN guidelines. You seem to require a refresher:
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>Don't be snarky.
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, let me just go pop my personal contents and insurance details on wikipedia as myself and my family track, update and modify the structure of the page.
Not sure why you feel justified in this level of snarkiness, given that i responded to a very specific claim: >No website offers that kind of ease of use for _adding_ information Obviously Wikipedia isn't great to upload your social security number to, but it does allow democratic adding of information which I cited it as an example of. Please read the HN guidelines. You seem to require a refresher: https://news.ycom…
Perhaps it was a little snarky - it was intended with good humour to point out how drastically far away the suggestion was.
Wikipedia is nothing like what this is for adding information in the way the comment says. Particularly because one of the very key points about this sheet is that you can copy it and add information. It's explicitly for that and Wikipedia absolutely does not offer the ease of use of filling in forms and adding your information on the go.
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#100I'm on the other side of the planet so it's not my place to comment on the content of any of this. It seems to look like a good resource clearly made with the best of intentions. I understand the people/person behind this wants to quickly and easily impart information, so the best format for the job is whichever one they can distribute info in as quickly as possible -- but I also see this as a sort of indictment of t…
strange comment - this should be a website that would presumably be hosting, where exactly? the average person would not be able to make something even close to this sheet. where are they going to host it? do they have a domain? certs? do they even know how to write html? css? during a spiky event such as a wildfire, will their website even stay up?
In addition this includes tracking your own info in it. So now we're going to need auth and a backend to store the data on top of that.