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Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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Post by escobar »

I made an account to see how their system worked after thinking about doing a stream myself a few months ago. After I signed up and poked around their platform, I was none too pleased with the features or way their application worked. They emailed me too many times (almost every day) in the first week and I just marked them as spam and went along with my life.

Glad to hear about what's going on here, I will be sure to never stream or give a website with this type of management my business :)

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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Post by maxerickson »

[deleted] wrote: post #34
maxerickson wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What does "caught" mean in this context? If you can't use the site without registering, it probably isn't a secret that you can't use the site without registering. I can see using a phrase like 'called out' or 'called on their bullshit' or whatever, but I don't see how they were 'caught'.

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So they were caught making TechCrunch not mention the required sign up?

So is that somehow ethically questionable to choose not to take down the login wall? I don't get it. I wouldn't sign in just to check something like this out and think it is probably a foolish obstacle to place in front of their potential users, but I don't get why it is somehow sneaky or whatever.

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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Post by have_faith »

[deleted] wrote: post #34
maxerickson wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What does "caught" mean in this context? If you can't use the site without registering, it probably isn't a secret that you can't use the site without registering. I can see using a phrase like 'called out' or 'called on their bullshit' or whatever, but I don't see how they were 'caught'.

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As much as I dislike their attitude, 'caught' is the wrong word here. You get 'caught' doing something that you where trying to hide. You can't hide the fact that you need to register to view videos, so you can't be caught.

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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Post by yokohummer7 »

minimaxir wrote: post #33
drakonka wrote: post #31

It looks like Livecoding have now updated my profile for me, to claim I am "spamming them": https://www.livecoding.tv/lazer/

DICE.COM EMPLOYEE SPAMMING LIVECODING.TV Liza Shulyayeva banned for spamming. WORKS FOR DICE.com and is just spamming Livecoding.tv BANNED FROM LIIVECODING.TV FOR SPAMMING BANNED FROM LIIVECODING.TV FOR SPAMMING+ BANNED FROM LIIVECODING.TV FOR SPAMMING ...did they mispell their own startup in their vandalism? Also, per her LinkedIn, the OP works for DICE the game-development studio (subsidiary of EA, made Battlefield…

It is also interesting that only the second line has a plus sign at the end. I'll have to infer the meaning of that.

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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Post by yokohummer7 »

drakonka wrote: post #40
yokohummer7 wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What on earth is this? Is this something like a joke?

In all seriousness I think their founder is still quite immature and possibly has some temper issues, at least judging by these past interactions and now this immature act. You can see this was written hastily, probably in anger - they didn't even spell the name of their own website right here. They don't really seem to care about maintaining the least bit of professionalism.

But... but... they are YC-funded. People with such a childish attitude should have been filtered earlier. :(

Anyways, I don't think I would sign in to their site anymore. It is unfortunate that one of the YC companies doesn't feel "cool" anymore.

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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Post by 467568985476 »

minimaxir wrote: post #33
drakonka wrote: post #31

It looks like Livecoding have now updated my profile for me, to claim I am "spamming them": https://www.livecoding.tv/lazer/

DICE.COM EMPLOYEE SPAMMING LIVECODING.TV Liza Shulyayeva banned for spamming. WORKS FOR DICE.com and is just spamming Livecoding.tv BANNED FROM LIIVECODING.TV FOR SPAMMING BANNED FROM LIIVECODING.TV FOR SPAMMING+ BANNED FROM LIIVECODING.TV FOR SPAMMING ...did they mispell their own startup in their vandalism? Also, per her LinkedIn, the OP works for DICE the game-development studio (subsidiary of EA, made Battlefield…

Wow, that is insane. These guys are a YC backed company?!

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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Post by roflchoppa »

tymekpavel wrote: post #39
drakonka wrote: post #31

It looks like Livecoding have now updated my profile for me, to claim I am "spamming them": https://www.livecoding.tv/lazer/

This is insanity. This startup should be immediately dropped from YC.

right? Thats not only dis-tasteful. but also what the fuck are you thinking doing that to a client? Now I'm never going to that website.

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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Post by 467568985476 »

anon5_ wrote: post #29

> "You are scheduled to be deleted on our next cron job. Nothing complex." Is this serious? What's a cron job have to do with knocking out information from a rdbms? I imagine a cron job could be useful if there was a script to clear out any static files - but you can also invoke the script manually. "Nothing complex" :)

Perhaps it's a manual cronjob - developer wakes up every morning at 9:00am, SSHs onto the production system, starts up MySQL, runs all of today's DELETEs.

Re: My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga

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Post by thecatspaw »

jraines wrote: post #24
seivan wrote: post #19

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They are super spammy, I've unsubscribed several times and still get emails. Sticking with Twitch.

I was about to sign up, with about the same reason and interest level as the post author. How's Twitch for this?

Twitch officially doesnt allow non-gaming related (game-dev is ok) streams. As long as you dont stream anything explicit you should be ok though
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