Secret message in source code of Digg
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Secret message in source code of Digg
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Re: Secret message in source code of Digg
#2Nice easter egg!
Title is a bit misleading as I clicked on the article thinking Digg had open-sourced the site (which would be pretty rad). The source code in question is the HTML source, not the code that outputs said HTML.
Perhaps it would better read "Secret message in Digg's HTML markup".
Re: Secret message in source code of Digg
#3Nice easter egg! Title is a bit misleading as I clicked on the article thinking Digg had open-sourced the site (which would be pretty rad). The source code in question is the HTML source, not the code that outputs said HTML. Perhaps it would better read "Secret message in Digg's HTML markup".
You mean HTML. Saying HTML markup is rather redundant.
Re: Secret message in source code of Digg
#4lol wow, we're such nerds. I love it.
Re: Secret message in source code of Digg
#5It's been there since early 2006, and was "discovered" once before.
Re: Secret message in source code of Digg
#6Nice easter egg! Title is a bit misleading as I clicked on the article thinking Digg had open-sourced the site (which would be pretty rad). The source code in question is the HTML source, not the code that outputs said HTML. Perhaps it would better read "Secret message in Digg's HTML markup".
Hahahah same thing happened here. "Secret message in Digg's HTML" works well.
Hmm I couldn't help but notice that he uses cutenews. That script hasn't been updated in a while and is vulnerable to script kiddies and ugly cracker people. :(
Re: Secret message in source code of Digg
#7how much does it cost digg in bandwith dollar?
Re: Secret message in source code of Digg
#8how much does it cost digg in bandwith dollar?
OK, I'll bite.
The message itself is 106 bytes.
Digg gets ~70 million US visits per month (Compete), with 50% traffic from the US (Alexa), and average ~5 page views per user (Compete & Alexa). So let's say 700 million page views a month.
700,000,000 * 106 = 74,200,000,000 bytes/month ~= 70 gigabytes/month.
Slicehost charges $20 for 100 gigabytes/month. I'm assuming Digg pays for unmetered bandwidth, which should come out to a lot less.
So, I guess the answer is - not much.
Re: Secret message in source code of Digg
#9how much does it cost digg in bandwith dollar?
OK, I'll bite. The message itself is 106 bytes. Digg gets ~70 million US visits per month (Compete), with 50% traffic from the US (Alexa), and average ~5 page views per user (Compete & Alexa). So let's say 700 million page views a month. 700,000,000 * 106 = 74,200,000,000 bytes/month ~= 70 gigabytes/month. Slicehost charges $20 for 100 gigabytes/month. I'm assuming Digg pays for unmetered bandwidth, which should come…
You left out the fact that use gzip to compress their pages. So the real answer is - even less.
Re: Secret message in source code of Digg
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
OK, I'll bite. The message itself is 106 bytes. Digg gets ~70 million US visits per month (Compete), with 50% traffic from the US (Alexa), and average ~5 page views per user (Compete & Alexa). So let's say 700 million page views a month. 700,000,000 * 106 = 74,200,000,000 bytes/month ~= 70 gigabytes/month. Slicehost charges $20 for 100 gigabytes/month. I'm assuming Digg pays for unmetered bandwidth, which should come…
You left out the fact that use gzip to compress their pages. So the real answer is - even less.
Yep, I remembered about compression after I posted.
So did you have anything to do with this hidden message? :p