Show HN: UrlRoulette – Pass a URL to the next visitor • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: UrlRoulette – Pass a URL to the next visitor

#51

Post by MattBlissett » Sat, Apr 15, 2017, 10:24 PM UTC

I submitted three URLs from GBIF.org (my employer), and two of the people who got them are still browsing 20 minutes later.

Pretty sea slugs: https://demo.gbif.org/occurrence/gallery?taxon_key=2292251

Bugs: https://demo.gbif.org/occurrence/gallery?taxon_key=797

Hummingbirds: https://demo.gbif.org/occurrence/gallery?taxon_key=5289

I got three blogs in return, one of which was about catching Pokémon. Fair swap...

Re: Show HN: UrlRoulette – Pass a URL to the next visitor

#52

Post by Daviey » Sat, Apr 15, 2017, 10:25 PM UTC

hk__2 wrote: post #48

Daviey wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

SHOULD and DOES are not the same thing. Returning 405 'Method Not Allowed' on a HEAD isn't unreasonable, and that is the issue we are seeing. EDIT: did say GET on prior edit.

> Returning 405 'Method Not Allowed' on a GET isn't unreasonable I think you meant "on a HEAD".

er yes, my bad. Fixed

Re: Show HN: UrlRoulette – Pass a URL to the next visitor

#53

Post by 5_minutes » Sat, Apr 15, 2017, 10:31 PM UTC

Nice idea. I love randomness and serendipity.

There must be something more you can do with this concept though.

Re: Show HN: UrlRoulette – Pass a URL to the next visitor

#54

Post by pierrec » Sat, Apr 15, 2017, 10:38 PM UTC

MattBlissett wrote: post #51

I submitted three URLs from GBIF.org (my employer), and two of the people who got them are still browsing 20 minutes later . Pretty sea slugs: https://demo.gbif.org/occurrence/gallery?taxon_key=2292251 Bugs: https://demo.gbif.org/occurrence/gallery?taxon_key=797 Hummingbirds: https://demo.gbif.org/occurrence/gallery?taxon_key=5289 I got three blogs in return, one of which was about catching Pokémon. Fair swap...

Let me get this straight, you're using a monitoring tool for the website you work on, to check out how long individual people spend on it after you sent it to them via UrlRoulette? That's kinda neat (in a slightly disturbing way).

Re: Show HN: UrlRoulette – Pass a URL to the next visitor

#55

Post by bigly » Sat, Apr 15, 2017, 10:51 PM UTC

Interesting idea, but it seems like it has the potential to get you into a lot of trouble. You don't know what kind of messed up stuff you are going to be redirected to.

Re: Show HN: UrlRoulette – Pass a URL to the next visitor

#56

Post by progval » Sat, Apr 15, 2017, 10:55 PM UTC

api_or_ipa wrote: post #30

jffry wrote: post #17

Submitting UrlRoulette.net? Not funny! Try again! :) Aww man, foiled!

Link shortener to the rescue! http://bit.ly/2oCL927

or prefix the domain with www.

Re: Show HN: UrlRoulette – Pass a URL to the next visitor

#57

Post by buzz27 » Sat, Apr 15, 2017, 10:59 PM UTC

I really struggled with your captcha. I had to solve 10 screens of images, it was very time-consuming and tedious.

Re: Show HN: UrlRoulette – Pass a URL to the next visitor

#58

Post by MattBlissett » Sat, Apr 15, 2017, 11:18 PM UTC

pierrec wrote: post #54

MattBlissett wrote: post #51

I submitted three URLs from GBIF.org (my employer), and two of the people who got them are still browsing 20 minutes later . Pretty sea slugs: https://demo.gbif.org/occurrence/gallery?taxon_key=2292251 Bugs: https://demo.gbif.org/occurrence/gallery?taxon_key=797 Hummingbirds: https://demo.gbif.org/occurrence/gallery?taxon_key=5289 I got three blogs in return, one of which was about catching Pokémon. Fair swap...

Let me get this straight, you're using a monitoring tool for the website you work on, to check out how long individual people spend on it after you sent it to them via UrlRoulette? That's kinda neat (in a slightly disturbing way).

I wanted to see the user agent and request headers, since there's another comment about other sites being blocked.

I simply looked at basic web server logs. It's a beta site with hardly any traffic, so the only log entries were myself and those from the three users from Urlroulette. I was surprised to see the same IPs were still making requests when I went to close the terminal a while later.

Re: Show HN: UrlRoulette – Pass a URL to the next visitor

#59

Post by cyorir » Sat, Apr 15, 2017, 11:38 PM UTC

soneca wrote: post #37

Just sharing what I got because it was funny: http://eelslap.com

Ooh, I just hope that no eels were harmed in putting that together!

Re: Show HN: UrlRoulette – Pass a URL to the next visitor

#60

Post by cyorir » Sat, Apr 15, 2017, 11:42 PM UTC

Sounds interesting, but I don't want to try it out myself because I know that the internet is dark and full of terrors. Also, I don't want to get Rick-rolled.