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Comment by gkbrk | Hacker News Reader

How does this compare to BugMeNot [1]?

Not the author. But I guess one difference is that this is not bugmenot. Many sites blacklist accounts from bugmenot. Now there is an alternative. This is of course a whack-mole-game. But when it works it works.

Did you see the part titled “There is BugMeNot. Why another site?”?

I noticed a lot of people on the comment thread never open the link, most of the time the answers are right there but the comments are always like, the above.

Yes, the posted link says nothing about how they compare. Here is what is says.

> It is always good to decentralize the web.

This essentially means "This is not BugMeNot". Doesn't really tell me about how they are better/worse compared to BugMeNot.

> In addition, it seems BugMeNot is not maintained any more

I don't see how it affects the user, when I search for accounts on BugMeNot I still see very recent additions.

> no HTTPS for example

This is factually incorrect, I am connected to BugMeNot.com over HTTPS right now. No certificate issues or anything.

This is really weird to provide 0 comparison and incorrect claims to their most well-known "competitor". There are actually things they can improve, such as

- Better moderation - Checking and removing broken accounts in an automated way - Getting rid of the "This site has been barred from the bugmenot system" stuff.

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