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Re: IsNSFW.com - The Safe For Work way to share Not Safe For Work links

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Looking for thoughts, feedback, rants, raves. The site is essentially a safe way to share not safe content. With URL shorteners becoming popular it's hard to know if what you're clicking on is safe to visit (especially at work). isNSFW.com aims to fix that. Cheers -eli

a couple wording suggestions:

"Offensive Material: Link contains offensive content such as references to religion, abortion, 911, and the devil."

"Link MAY contain", and 911 should be 9/11 (unless you're referring to the US emergency number)

Re: IsNSFW.com - The Safe For Work way to share Not Safe For Work links

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Looking for thoughts, feedback, rants, raves. The site is essentially a safe way to share not safe content. With URL shorteners becoming popular it's hard to know if what you're clicking on is safe to visit (especially at work). isNSFW.com aims to fix that. Cheers -eli

err.. the "I'm at work" button should not redirect you to Disney.com. try Google instead. Otherwise, great idea. [added link: http://isnsfw.com/yLyQTM ]

really? people seemed to LOVE the disney.com redirect. They found it quite amusing :) It originally went to google though, like you suggested. We'll see how things test out and it might very well make it back to google.

Thanks for the feedback -eli

Re: IsNSFW.com - The Safe For Work way to share Not Safe For Work links

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Looking for thoughts, feedback, rants, raves. The site is essentially a safe way to share not safe content. With URL shorteners becoming popular it's hard to know if what you're clicking on is safe to visit (especially at work). isNSFW.com aims to fix that. Cheers -eli

This is a great idea. I really hope that this becomes ubiquitous with posting NSFW links. It would be nice if you could affix multiple content descriptors, much like how the ESRB handles their rating system. See below for a reference: http://www.esrb.org/ratings/ratings_guide.jsp

I like the idea, only problem is keeping it clean and simple... maybe version 2.0 will have this :)

Re: IsNSFW.com - The Safe For Work way to share Not Safe For Work links

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

err.. the "I'm at work" button should not redirect you to Disney.com. try Google instead. Otherwise, great idea. [added link: http://isnsfw.com/yLyQTM ]

really? people seemed to LOVE the disney.com redirect. They found it quite amusing :) It originally went to google though, like you suggested. We'll see how things test out and it might very well make it back to google. Thanks for the feedback -eli

The redirect to Disney is definitely clever and funny. But I have to agree with cedsav, the joke will go from cute to annoying pretty fast, google is better.

Re: IsNSFW.com - The Safe For Work way to share Not Safe For Work links

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

err.. the "I'm at work" button should not redirect you to Disney.com. try Google instead. Otherwise, great idea. [added link: http://isnsfw.com/yLyQTM ]

really? people seemed to LOVE the disney.com redirect. They found it quite amusing :) It originally went to google though, like you suggested. We'll see how things test out and it might very well make it back to google. Thanks for the feedback -eli

Yaw, Disney is safer for work, but still isn't what you want on your screen when your boss/coworker walks by.

Re: IsNSFW.com - The Safe For Work way to share Not Safe For Work links

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Usability: Make the URL textbox bigger and autofocus it on load. Give the OGNX labels a bit of rounding to make them look like buttons. Give them some highlighting when selected. This will keep people who don't know better from getting annoyed with those little circle toggles. Submit goes on the bottom-right. s/custom alias/alias, add a hover or question mark to it that explains what it's for. Add some overlay js/ajax to give me the new link without having to go to a new page.

Design: Align your header's (logo, speech bubble) width with the google-advertisement-banner-footer width to make the middle stand out. What's up with affiliates? Put that junk into the box right under the banner. Your copy/link/share link colors are ugly. 2 lines of text max in your description.

Copy: Comma or exclamation after 'Congratulations', period after 'others'. Some of your wording is unprofessional. Don't try to be funny. Some bosses won't look kindly on a site like this just because of your language. For example, your http://isnsfw.com/44dfs6 'porn star' might get hit by someone's work filters and get your site blacklisted.

Good plan. Go find some decent sfw url shortener sites, see if you can set up mutual linking with them ("Have something sfw to share? Try [random friend]"). And do you realize that your source of revenue is under the fold on 900px height netbook screens? Many college students use those.

(When submitting, put your comments into the the actual post, not into a comment. Title should also be 'ask hn, feedback on nsfw-friendly link shortener isnsfw.com')

Re: IsNSFW.com - The Safe For Work way to share Not Safe For Work links

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Looking for thoughts, feedback, rants, raves. The site is essentially a safe way to share not safe content. With URL shorteners becoming popular it's hard to know if what you're clicking on is safe to visit (especially at work). isNSFW.com aims to fix that. Cheers -eli

err.. the "I'm at work" button should not redirect you to Disney.com. try Google instead. Otherwise, great idea. [added link: http://isnsfw.com/yLyQTM ]

Why not just return the visitor to the previous page (if it exists)? If it doesn't exist, Google seems to be the best bet.
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