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31337.it

1 pointy0ghur7_xxx8 comments

Why the "leetspeak" URL? It implies there is something alt.2600-y about the site that I don't get.

Can't/won't test it. It tells me to send an email, but I have no idea what that email will do. Does my email address get published? Stored? Can people send me emails or reply to me? Are the email headers visible/can someone see my source IP?

No clear value-add to me makes me shy away from something that is so poorly documented. Of course, with traction 95% of my questions would be answered and it would be more obvious what the site is/does. Kind of chicken-and-egg I guess, but you should post a demo or some bette descriptions first.

You are right. I should add this to the home page. To be sincere, i did not think a bit about this stuff :)

I answer you here:

- your mail address will not get published

- it will be stored

- people will not see it so nobody can reply

OK, so I sent something and got this page: http://brk.31337.it/210

Now, what do I do with that? (semi rhetorical question, it seems like some kind of social-ish, easy-blogging site)

Also, not sure if this is the intention or not, but if I enter http://brk.31337.it/209 I see someone else's post. That is a confusing behavior. I would expect to see my own immediately prior blog post (if I had one), not another users stuff.

That is a confusing behavior

Yes, I guess I should overwrite the to_param method of the post model to return text instead of the id.

That's a really good idea, and is more seo friendly too.

I had quite some fun in the last two weeks implementing this site. Configuring postfix, adding some queues, piping mails through spamassasin to my script that imports them, parsing mails, formatting html, making sure it's at least halfway valid. Working with rails subdomain routing, learned a lot of jquery too.

I developed this to scratch my own itch, but since it's here, you may use it if you like.

wow, really nice! Now, you homepage claims 'have fun!', but where's the fun when you don't have access to the css or the page template, and can't start tweaking those immediately? :o)

You appear to have chosen a domain that is invalid in DNS. RFC1034. Whoops.

Perhaps I am old school but I cannot understand what your application does.

A brief description other than "Post your content on the web" would be nice. Additionally when you want people to send an email to you, you might want to have a Privacy Policy link to state what you will do with the email addresses that you will collect.

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