NeoCities

Post by contingencies » Sat, Jun 22, 2013, 1:45 AM UTC

fragsworth wrote: post #170

kyledrake wrote: post #103

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Here, I'll do one better: If anyone is concerned about the nature/security of the site, here is the source code to NeoCities, ready for anyone to do a full security audit: https://github.com/kyledrake/neocities-web Pull requests welcome!

I don't think it's a smart idea to publish the source code to your site (especially while on the front page of Hacker News) until you've spent a significant amount of money on auditing the security internally to the point that others are comfortable with a public release. Now it looks like something happened, and you've got no site, and thousands of people trying to access it!

Post by fghfg » Sat, Jun 22, 2013, 1:52 AM UTC

csense wrote: post #173

thomasfl wrote: post #144

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I think it's a pure joy to read the ruby source. Allthough ruby is not fast, it's got some of the simplest most elegant frameworks out there. Sinatra is not much more than a router config file with some logic. Sequel is the simplest database orm and migration tool around. And slim makes very readable templates. All frameworks perfect for the first minimum viable product. If this site takes off, I would perhaps pay so…

> it's a pure joy to read the ruby source If you like it so much, here's a copy-paste from the project for your edification [1]: def new_tags=(tags_string) tags_string.gsub! /[^a-zA-Z0-9, ]/, '' tags = tags_string.split ',' tags.collect! {|c| (c.match(/^\w+\s\w+/) || c.match(/^\w+/)).to_s } @new_tag_strings = tags end I don't mean to pick on this project in particular. In fact, this project as a whole is quite possib…

    // Parse tags string.
    // Example:
    // "tag1, tag2" => {"tag1", "tag2"}
    // "tag1, very long tag" => {"tag1", "very long"}
    string[] NewTags(string tags_string)
    {
        //Allow only letters, numbers and spaces in tag.
        tags_string = new string(tags_string.Where(c => char.IsLetter(c)
            || char.IsNumber(c) || c == ' ' || c == ',').ToArray());

        //Separate multiple tags with commas.
        string[] tags = tags_string.Split(',').Select(s => s.Trim()).ToArray();

        //Two word per tag maximum (extra words in a tag will be removed).
        for (int i = 0; i  validWords = new List();
            string[] wordsInTag = tags[i].Split(' ');
            if (wordsInTag.Length > 2)
            {
                tags[i] = wordsInTag[0] + " " + wordsInTag[1];
            }
        }
        return tags;
    }

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jun 22, 2013, 2:39 AM UTC

ErikAugust wrote: post #47

More fun: http://login.neocities.org/

Post by kristopolous » Sat, Jun 22, 2013, 3:41 AM UTC

darseex wrote: post #146

Samuel_Michon wrote: post #122

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Also, backstory: http://mike.winterdiamond.com/history.php

You'd think he'd have learned his lesson about god-awful site design.

Post by Jeremysr » Sat, Jun 22, 2013, 4:02 AM UTC

csense wrote: post #173

thomasfl wrote: post #144

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I think it's a pure joy to read the ruby source. Allthough ruby is not fast, it's got some of the simplest most elegant frameworks out there. Sinatra is not much more than a router config file with some logic. Sequel is the simplest database orm and migration tool around. And slim makes very readable templates. All frameworks perfect for the first minimum viable product. If this site takes off, I would perhaps pay so…

> it's a pure joy to read the ruby source If you like it so much, here's a copy-paste from the project for your edification [1]: def new_tags=(tags_string) tags_string.gsub! /[^a-zA-Z0-9, ]/, '' tags = tags_string.split ',' tags.collect! {|c| (c.match(/^\w+\s\w+/) || c.match(/^\w+/)).to_s } @new_tag_strings = tags end I don't mean to pick on this project in particular. In fact, this project as a whole is quite possib…