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friendsdomains.com

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Neat - but I didn't expect it to tweet my entry. I really wish you had mentioned that. Out of nowhere it looks like I'm spamming my friends with some domain I own.

Appreciate it. I'll avoid the site. This is one reason I seldom log in with Twitter/Facebook.

I just don't trust apps, and this is a good reason not to. Even if they authors try to make it "Not Spammy" I don't trust their implementation, and the incentives are in the wrong place.

Thanks but no Thanks.

We really did try to make it not-spammy. You have an option to tweet when you list a domain name that you own. Or you can comment on other people's domains using twitter. Also we're expecting most of our traffic to come from twitter, so they will know exactly what's getting tweeted.

I'd like to double that.

Also even if you uncheck the tweet checkbox it posts to your twitter stream.

We've run quite a few tests on different browsers to ensure it doesn't happen. Can I ask you which browser you are using?

Thanks for that warning. Kept me from making that mistake.

We do have a line which shows what you're going to tweet and let's you uncheck the box so you don't post to twitter. Perhaps this should be off by default, but we are erring on the side of making the app viral first.

Thanks for the feedback! We try to make the Twitter integration as smooth and natural as possible by placing checkboxes within the text inputs, on the right handside. You can choose whether or not to share your posts on Twitter by clicking them (it then gets saved for all your following posts across the platform). Absolutely no wish to make a spammy app!

I was going to post a domain, but when it made me authorize with Twitter, I stopped.

I don't understand why you need identity for this project and why that identity is limited to Twitter. I think participation would increase if anonymous entries were allowed.

The idea really is to allow you sharing your stories with people you can have access to. I think the fun part of it is to see who owns what. And Twitter allows you to eventually get in touch with the person if you have any interest in the domain name or just want to randomly comment on it.

Ges, people don't need you to do that. They can just tweet 'anyone interested in buying hotdomain.com from me?' What you're doing here is trying to insert yourself as a domain marketing service, and while your intentions are surely decent your presentation comes off as crooked.

We are not a domain marketing service. We are a social game that lets people get a little more insight into their friends and colleagues from the internet community by seeing which domains they've registered.

+1 for shapiro, we are just here to allow people socially / casually discuss around their domain names. No crook intentions. :)

So why not make the twitter handle an optional field for each entry? People could still use twitter to get in touch, and those who don't use twitter would not be excluded.

That's something we have been thinking about. We are just afraid it would open a door for spammers and trolls if we didn't require an oauth signup to post.

Interesting read. The Load More button fails on Chrome/Mac: it shows the entries I've already read, can scroll down for more but then it just keeps repeating itself.

Same on iPad.

Think of it like "texts from last night" for domain names. Our friends have great domain names like beerify.me, nerdharder.net, and unfriend.ly. We let you share the projects you were passionate about to get a domain for, but didn't end up doing anything with. This way you can at least get credit for being clever, and maybe even find a collaborator.

nice twitter integration!

Congrats on getting on the front page of HN -Ray

Thanks Ray!!!

Site completely fails to load without Javascript, and only does a half-assed job of loading with JS enabled. No graceful degradation at all.

Same here; FF 14 told me some script was taking too long run and if I wanted to stop it - twice.

My machine is slow, but not that slow!

I'm curious, do you browse exclusively with JS disabled (if so, why)?

Or did you just try it for testing purposes?

Yeah, I browse the web without JS and whitelist sites I use frequently. I wouldn't have commented if your site loaded fine with JS turned on, but even allowing local JS it still renders really badly (Chrome/ OS X). From error messages it looks like your scripts really don't like it if they can't load resources from Facebook and Twitter.

And Twitter/Facebook (especially Facebook) are the reason I browse the web without JS.

Yes that's a product choice we made. All the UI is designed around javascript, all the nav is done through ajax.

That's not a product choice, that's a mistake.

What an awful decision, for so many reasons.

posted a domain but i don't see it in the list? :(

edit: the timestamp on my entry on http://friendsdomains.com/istanb4u says '3 hours ago' but i just posted it...double sad face

same thing happened to me when I posted my second domain: http://friendsdomains.com/bearwithclaws

Minor timezone glitch, just fixed.

JS giving me unresponsive script error in FF.

I'll post mine here : publesh.com, priceround.com, 3lawyers.com, and today readso.com.

Edit: Also if you really do some digging you can find 5 letter domains that are great for branding.

I enjoyed reading the entries. When I keep choosing "Load More" I eventually get nothing but repeats. I can scroll up and see the same entries.

I use to have something up but have taken it down.. need to get it up with a tumble blog or something but womencantdrive.com

Not the best just the funniest.

Hilarious!

I used to own gotacrush.com, before I sold it. Bought it for a couple hundred. Not sure if that was a bargain.