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Re: Show HN: Hacker Spring – Instant blog by email, no signup required

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Post by vertex-four »

hacker256 wrote: post #39
rubatuga wrote: post #26

This is a repost of a banned submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=podestapizza https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=podestapizza

> This is a repost of a banned submission: Wrong. It's a repost of a flagged submission that was flagged due to the nature of its name and reposted. The real hacker community loved the podesta pizza name. HN not so much so I renamed it to Hacker Spring! Good find though! Keep it up Sherlock! :)

The real hacker community doesn't exclusively hang out on 8chan (and wherever people wound up from there), you know. Honestly, in Europe, it's largely a bunch of antifa types.

Re: Show HN: Hacker Spring – Instant blog by email, no signup required

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Post by mcintyre1994 »

hacker256 wrote: post #39
rubatuga wrote: post #26

This is a repost of a banned submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=podestapizza https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=podestapizza

> This is a repost of a banned submission: Wrong. It's a repost of a flagged submission that was flagged due to the nature of its name and reposted. The real hacker community loved the podesta pizza name. HN not so much so I renamed it to Hacker Spring! Good find though! Keep it up Sherlock! :)

What on Earth is the real hacker community? I feel like I’m missing out!

Re: Show HN: Hacker Spring – Instant blog by email, no signup required

#43

Post by AnonC »

hacker256 wrote: post #22
AnonC wrote: post #21

As pointed out by samstave in a comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23209348 : You send an email to this service to post a blog entry, and this service exposes your name and email address (as obtained from the email headers) to everyone! That’s a huge privacy disconnect in a world where exposed emails can cause a lot of problems, and more so for non-technical people, which this service intends to make thi…

This site isn't an anonymous posting forum. If you want to be anonymous you can use an anonymous e-mail account, but for everyone else it's to speak with your name and your voice. What you're looking for is a different service with different goals, and that doesn't make this one worse at what it is trying to do.

No need to get defensive. You have basically created a spam attractor for non-technical users by saying that this is suitable for “Grandpa and Grandma” and making them a lot more vulnerable to email scams.

Writing in one’s voice doesn’t need to have an email address attached with it. I can understand using the person’s name. You could do better by not displaying the email address or obfuscating it. Or you could remove that “Grandpa and Grandma” part from your description and say that it’s for those who understand how email addresses in public can get misused.

Re: Show HN: Hacker Spring – Instant blog by email, no signup required

#44

Post by generalpass »

On consideration, I would prefer if it worked without js. Since the whole site requires js to load content, clicking on someone's post that has js that effs with my computer is something I prefer to avoid.

At the very least, label a post that has js so I don't click it, if you are going to require the site to function with js.

Is it really necessary that every link opens in a new tab?

Re: Show HN: Hacker Spring – Instant blog by email, no signup required

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Post by gshdg »

hacker256 wrote: post #8
gshdg wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I assume each blog is distinct FIOS he’s by the sender’s email address? What happens if someone sends an email spoofing your FROM address?

A spoofed email will just be ignored because it won't pass the checks!

What checks?

Re: Show HN: Hacker Spring – Instant blog by email, no signup required

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Post by [deleted] »

mcintyre1994 wrote: post #42
hacker256 wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This is a repost of a banned submission: Wrong. It's a repost of a flagged submission that was flagged due to the nature of its name and reposted. The real hacker community loved the podesta pizza name. HN not so much so I renamed it to Hacker Spring! Good find though! Keep it up Sherlock! :)

What on Earth is the real hacker community? I feel like I’m missing out!

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Re: Show HN: Hacker Spring – Instant blog by email, no signup required

#49

Post by hacker256 »

AnonC wrote: post #43
hacker256 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This site isn't an anonymous posting forum. If you want to be anonymous you can use an anonymous e-mail account, but for everyone else it's to speak with your name and your voice. What you're looking for is a different service with different goals, and that doesn't make this one worse at what it is trying to do.

No need to get defensive. You have basically created a spam attractor for non-technical users by saying that this is suitable for “Grandpa and Grandma” and making them a lot more vulnerable to email scams. Writing in one’s voice doesn’t need to have an email address attached with it. I can understand using the person’s name. You could do better by not displaying the email address or obfuscating it. Or you could remov…

This isn't defensive. I'm simply stating that anonymous posting is different from named posting. That said, I will be adding a way to do anonymous posting and unlisted posting today. :-)

Thank you for your suggestions!

Re: Show HN: Hacker Spring – Instant blog by email, no signup required

#50

Post by hacker256 »

mcintyre1994 wrote: post #42
hacker256 wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This is a repost of a banned submission: Wrong. It's a repost of a flagged submission that was flagged due to the nature of its name and reposted. The real hacker community loved the podesta pizza name. HN not so much so I renamed it to Hacker Spring! Good find though! Keep it up Sherlock! :)

What on Earth is the real hacker community? I feel like I’m missing out!

IRC! :-)
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