Oh man, it is just like the 90's: unicode usernames are not allowed. Welcome to the past!
NeoCities
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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
Haha, wow. It's like going to a civil war reenactment where everyone adhere strictly to period customs and vernacular. Unfortunately they forgot center tags and to capitalize all of their HTML. I was going to say it's missing a table-based layout, but then I recalled that the height of geocities' popularity was earlier than I remember seeing table-based layouts everywhere. It's really not very assuring when they stat…
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#63"We've come full circle"
I love getting old and seeing technology continually reinvent itself.
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#64PEOPLE. This is clearly not intended as a business. Stop asking about the "business model." It strikes me as just being a cool side project that enables people to make websites. That's it. Yeesh.
I'm pretty sure that's exactly what it is. This is just for fun, I don't think they are looking for VC money or anything crazy.
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#65Has anyone actually had success maintaining a business with the donation model?
Wikipedia?
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#66Don't use this for anything you view as important. I just checked and there is no collision detection for usernames. You can signup for an account using any name and your account will seemingly just replace the previous created account. That is a big enough and obvious enough flaw that it also makes we wonder if this is just a phishing expedition or a way to mine email addresses.
I just fixed it. It was a change I did last night to fix a save bug. My apologies about that, it wasn't a good bug, but hopefully it's the last security-related one. Probably goes without saying, but this is definitely a beta project. I'm doing a lot of other things to protect this kind of attack (filename scrubbing, bcrypt passwords), so I'm pretty red in the face about how dumb this one was. If you find any other b…
slg: just make sure you back up your site to multiple floppies and you'll be fine.
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#67Need a Password retrieval system and the sign up page needs a verify password field... I already lost my password...
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#68Need a Password retrieval system and the sign up page needs a verify password field... I already lost my password...
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#69There are 61054 web site spaces remaining. After that, we need your help to get another server. Does that mean he's running 61k sites on a single server? Even if each site gets one single visitor per day, that 61k visitors for the Server. There is no way the server can manage that traffic. Sorry, but do you really want a static site? Just pay for a good one.
That is an amusingly small amount of traffic. A typical server should be able to handle thousands of requests per second. See the web framework benchmarks. When you add in the fact this is serving static pages you will likely blow out the bandwidth first. Put it behind cloudflare or another cdn and you should only need a second server for availability.
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#70No API? Sigh. It could be a nice backing host for a through-the-browser CMS – a little OAuth, a little CORS, and it could work pretty nicely.
Maybe there will be an API. The project is one month old.