Never let a good crisis go to waste: I'm launching https://20-things.com/ :) Could use a good load test ;)
Just got Cloudflare Error 522, Our work is done here HN, next one please.
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#42Never let a good crisis go to waste: I'm launching https://20-things.com/ :) Could use a good load test ;)
20-Things feedback (unsolicited ;-)
- no probs registering from the UK
- the site refers to a "20-Things Mascot", but I see none
- when logged in, my user name isn't displayed to remind me of who I am; sad to say this is useful for me nowadays
- in the "about" section, it says, "...specifically designed with our users limited free time in mind." I'd have preferred "... users' limited free time ...".
- er, that's it, with thanks and encouragement :-)
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#43Good times
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A few hundred people with US numbers should be able to sign up, but sending SMS overseas is much more expensive. For example, sending to Switzerland: $0.069 per SMS.
That's insane, but in line with what other (local) sms gateways charge here. But do you really need my phone number?
I have experience with building a very large community where registration was based on e-mail alone. Racism & general hate don't even begin to describe the things that came along with anonymity and disposable e-mail...
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Works on my machine :D Did you try restarting your computer? Joking aside, all requests are served in milliseconds, there are no queues.
I am not kidding. The website is unreachable for me from Poland. https://i.imgur.com/aQddPrf.png
Odd. The GEO FW rule was disabled, but I don't know how long it may take for CF to react. Are you able to connect through a proxy/vpn from another country? I'm fairly sure you've lost interest at this point, but if you got time to kill, I'd love to "debug" this and see what's up.
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I am not kidding. The website is unreachable for me from Poland. https://i.imgur.com/aQddPrf.png
Odd. The GEO FW rule was disabled, but I don't know how long it may take for CF to react. Are you able to connect through a proxy/vpn from another country? I'm fairly sure you've lost interest at this point, but if you got time to kill, I'd love to "debug" this and see what's up.
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#47Never let a good crisis go to waste: I'm launching https://20-things.com/ :) Could use a good load test ;)
20-Things feedback (unsolicited ;-) - no probs registering from the UK - the site refers to a "20-Things Mascot", but I see none - when logged in, my user name isn't displayed to remind me of who I am; sad to say this is useful for me nowadays - in the "about" section, it says, "...specifically designed with our users limited free time in mind." I'd have preferred "... users' limited free time ...". - er, that's it,…
Thank you, much appreciated! There is a mascot, but I did not use it anywhere on the site just yet, I will modify the wording for now. The rest makes sense as well, I will get right on it and thank you for the encouragement! :)
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One thing I always wanted to ask if why do job ads not allow comments? I'm guessing its to prevent negative comments/trolling (we get plenty of 'this will never work' on Launch/Show posts), but at the same time I feel like comments on job ads could be a good way for the founders and existing employees (tell us why you as a meager developer are excited to work there!) to interact with the HN community.
Job ads in the "who is hiring" threads generally only attract comments of one of a few types: "I applied to this place and they never got back to me" "Thanks, I applied" "Please add salary/remoteness/interview process to your job ad" "You have a typo in your text/email address/website URL"
And posting in any of the "Who's looking for work" threads mostly just results in lots of people sending you emails:
"We saw you post, would you like to join our platform ..?"
Lots of upwork knockoffs; I've started sending them GDPR Subject Access Requests to see what the companies have scraped and held about me. Next step is obviously data-deletion requests. Fun.
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#49Never let a good crisis go to waste: I'm launching https://20-things.com/ :) Could use a good load test ;)
Just got Cloudflare Error 522, Our work is done here HN, next one please.
That can't be right though. The box is fairly strong :) I believe that CF may have a new IP range which accesses origins, and I white-listed their known ranges a few months ago. Perhaps this calls for an update to that whitelist.
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Job ads in the "who is hiring" threads generally only attract comments of one of a few types: "I applied to this place and they never got back to me" "Thanks, I applied" "Please add salary/remoteness/interview process to your job ad" "You have a typo in your text/email address/website URL"
And posting in any of the "Who's looking for work" threads mostly just results in lots of people sending you emails: "We saw you post, would you like to join our platform ..?" Lots of upwork knockoffs; I've started sending them GDPR Subject Access Requests to see what the companies have scraped and held about me. Next step is obviously data-deletion requests. Fun.
They're not supposed to do that, as the rules at the top of the thread make clear. Perhaps we should build some kind of 'flagging' feature so people can report bad actors. Then we could add a warning that bothering HN users illegitimately will land them in the bad dog box on HN.