Show HN: Anon – Create anonymous, self-deleting blog posts
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Didn't know you could execute javascript emebedded in an image like that. I used some basic filtering rules, but I can clearly see I have some way to go. I won't sleep tonight until I get this fixed!
EDIT: The glitch in the matrix is no more. Thank you for pointing this out!
It was redirecting users to 'never gonna give you up' on youtube. It was a noob mistake.
I built this so you can easily create self-deleting blog posts, which can be easily shared in your whatsapp/messaging groups. This is useful when you don't want to directly post walls of text, and want others to be able to easily share what you posted to their other groups.
this approach to social software has proven consistently destructive across multiple platforms.
Snapchat had a ton of underage nudes. 4chan's been a magnet for hate speech.
I miss the anonymity of the early, 1990s WWW, but that was the playful anonymity of a much smaller group of people. it was a self-selecting group with a lot less of these problems at the time.
what kind of use cases did you have in mind, OP?
All social-software is inherently destructive in the same way that it is inherently good. It really depends on the users. People and ideas viewed as 'bad' today, might be 'good' in the future, and vice-versa. MLK was once FBI #1 most wanted, now he is an America hero. Gay marriage was once a marxist conspiracy to subvert god-fearing capitalists, now it is legal in all 50 US states. Etc, etc.
I certainly don't want the platform to be used for any illegal activity.
EDIT: Fixed.
The original is always compressed into a new file, and the metadata is thrown away. I read about what happened to some other websites, and want to ensure users have maximum privacy!
EDIT: Oh. I should've copied the link to the post. I guess it's gone forever. Geez Louise. I am not a smart man.
I just made a duplicate post since I lost the first one. https://anon.sharehub.live/post/ckmy1ef6w000315legil44c2u/Le...
How do you find other people's posts?
I considered adding an option to list your article on some type of feed or list, but then I would have to figure out how to moderate all the toxic posts that would inevitably pile-up.
With that in mind, when you make a post and enable comments then those people who have the shared link are the only ones who can comment, right?
I was trying to understand how to read any comments that others have made on the Anon post you made. For this to work you need to save the link, send it to your selected audience, and then check back in for their thoughts.
Only those who can actually see the post can make comments. Later on, I might add some way for the originally author to 'moderate' their comments through a non-tracking cookie. However, many users probably have some cookie-deletion extensions installed (I know I do) that might make this difficult if they close the page. Still trying to think of a better solution.
I don't know why I didn't think of this before lol
I'd say that users that would want this feature would also like some sense of "security" that the post is actually deleted. there is no sense of that.
another 2 cents :) How about letting us decide when it gets deleted rather than the magic 7 days?
There is a slider you can set that changes the duration. I fixed it at 1-7-30 days. I probably need to make that feature more visible though. And I'll add in the option to let users set the kill duration.
I do hard-delete the posts once they expire, but I don't know how I could give users a sense of 'security' that it has gone into the void. Do you have any suggestions?
Self-victory is not possible, but self-defeat is :(
Painful, is the existence we live...