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Re: MediaCrush – A website for serving media super fast

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Post by jdiez17 »

graue wrote: post #12

Hmm... did this site get served a secret warrant last week? Or did they just forget to update their warrant canary? https://mediacru.sh/transparency/warrant-canary.txt (Note: the date 08/11 is written European style meaning November 8th, as you can see if you go up a directory.)

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    > Hmm... did this site get served a secret warrant last week? Or did they just forget to update their warrant canary? 
    > https://mediacru.sh/transparency/warrant-canary.txt
    > (Note: the date 08/11 is written European style meaning November 8th, as you can see if you go up a directory.)

    Hi, just wanted to let you know that we haven't, in fact, been served a warrant.

    The failure to update the canary was due to my own mistake, and I'm terribly sorry about that.
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Re: MediaCrush – A website for serving media super fast

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Post by eonil »

Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #46
eonil wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We all know how H.264 is great. You don't need to explain it again. And you should fix it right now. I already got super-bad first impression. Currently your product is just marketing junk shit to me. And you have no way to fix my impression because I won't review your product ever again.

> We all know how H.264 is great. You don't need to explain it again. You know that, but our intended audience isn't the HN crowd. I'm sorry to hear that you got a bad impression of the site, but even without any fancy speed tricks (and there are fancy speed tricks), it's still an open-source, privacy-centric media hosting site that I think is pretty damn great.

It could be great. And that exaggerated text voids everything. That's why I told you to fix it ASAP. Before that text make you to lose any more people.

Re: MediaCrush – A website for serving media super fast

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Post by jdiez17 »

eonil wrote: post #62
Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> We all know how H.264 is great. You don't need to explain it again. You know that, but our intended audience isn't the HN crowd. I'm sorry to hear that you got a bad impression of the site, but even without any fancy speed tricks (and there are fancy speed tricks), it's still an open-source, privacy-centric media hosting site that I think is pretty damn great.

It could be great. And that exaggerated text voids everything. That's why I told you to fix it ASAP. Before that text make you to lose any more people.

A pull request rewording that text would be very welcome.

Re: MediaCrush – A website for serving media super fast

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Post by duiker101 »

Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #55
duiker101 wrote: post #54

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can't you make it automatic, taking the news with rss and stop it if you get a warrant?

Nope. If an adversary seizes our servers, we couldn't stop it from falsely reporting that all is well.

If an adversary seizes your servers wouldn't you have bigger worries like getting them back or complaying with the warrant?

Re: MediaCrush – A website for serving media super fast

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Post by eonil »

girvo wrote: post #60
eonil wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We all know how H.264 is great. You don't need to explain it again. And you should fix it right now. I already got super-bad first impression. Currently your product is just marketing junk shit to me. And you have no way to fix my impression because I won't review your product ever again.

"Fix it right now" That came across to me as super snarky and entitled, despite you having a point. Rewrite it right now. (See? Now, I actually don't think you meant it like that, but if I was the OP I would've taken that badly. Food for thought!)

OK. I realized this is not a product yet. I have to admit that I missed it. I apology for bad attitude.

Re: MediaCrush – A website for serving media super fast

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Post by eonil »

jdiez17 wrote: post #63
eonil wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It could be great. And that exaggerated text voids everything. That's why I told you to fix it ASAP. Before that text make you to lose any more people.

A pull request rewording that text would be very welcome.

OK. I realized this is not a product yet. I have to admit that I missed it. I apology for bad attitude.

Re: MediaCrush – A website for serving media super fast

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Post by airkraft »

So you have done a poorly designed website which is nothing but yet another uploader with file compression (using third party tools) and some other falsely claimed features (caring about privacy while using Google Analytics, AdSense, Disqus and did not dig much more). This is an okay idea, but being serious here, this does not take more than a few days to develop and should not have much attention, except if there are surprising features I am not aware of.

Re: MediaCrush – A website for serving media super fast

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Post by jdiez17 »

airkraft wrote: post #67

So you have done a poorly designed website which is nothing but yet another uploader with file compression (using third party tools) and some other falsely claimed features (caring about privacy while using Google Analytics, AdSense, Disqus and did not dig much more). This is an okay idea, but being serious here, this does not take more than a few days to develop and should not have much attention, except if there ar…

Disabling Analytics and AdSense is very easy - just enable DNT on your browser. We haven't found any acceptable alternatives, although building our own analytics software[1] is on the roadmap.

[1] https://github.com/MediaCrush/MediaCrush/issues/118

Re: MediaCrush – A website for serving media super fast

#69

Post by nthnclrk »

Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #51
nthnclrk wrote: post #47

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Love the idea. Potentially you could fund via a paid tier for business/enterprise use? Rather than offering more features, you could have some sort of guarantee of length of hosting ie. Pay $299 a year and get x storage for x years? (Choosing suitably generous figures) Then update your disclaimer on the about page to be free forever for personal use? I don't know, but personally, this would be brilliant for the busin…

If you're worried about it going away, you can always run your own instance! It is open-source, and the instructions are pretty straightforward if you have a look through the readme. You can always donate [1] to help ensure continued development. Even if it does go under, too, we'll keep the GitHub up and maintain it in our spare time, since we love the project and use it so much for our own needs. You do have a good…

Great points. Certainly aware of the open source nature, and ability to clone and run an instance, but for some organisations that's not really an option — they need a turnkey solution that has a somewhat inelastic dollar value and the ability to outsource all of the administration rather bringing another project in-house. That or they don't even have the technical human capital to support even rudimentary development work (there are TONS of Small to Medium Enterprise that would fit this bill).

I think your idea of private instances might be something worth exploring. It allows you to stick to your word, and the essence of the product while still finding another way to monetise.

Of course, if none of that seems interesting and you'd rather leave that problem for someone else to address than that's totally fine too. I only suggest it to you as you're already looking at the solution from a technical standpoint, and validated the need (based on traffic and use), indicating there is a market there to be serviced.

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