benjy1

Works for me, such a funny bug issue.

We're using Drupal Commerce, it's been a fantastic replacement for Magento. It's not reinventing the wheel if you're contributing to a growing and community driven platform such as DC which, is a big improvement over Magento IMO.

How did you go?

Pretty cool, any chance they might end up on Github?

Already posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6557394

Looks like a great service, maybe add a subscribe to your homepage for people who are having issues creating a workspace. I'll check back later. Great work though, looks very nice!

That's exactly what the article says no?

I'd love to hear others comment on how the Drupal community compares to other Open Source projects?

I've been involved in the Drupal community and it's run very well, the community in general are very patient and always willing to help new users get started.

But the women on the homepage is really selling it!

I sure that is a problem we could solve. For example you could have name.familyname-[UNIQUENUMBER].com That would work as long as the unique numbers didn't get to big. If they were categorised by country it's unlikely it would be more than 5 digits.

Thanks, I didn't know that existed. The whole concept needs way to many parties to get involved to make it a success so I can see why it never took off.

It was a very subtle change but yeah we lightened it up a bit after the feedback from this thread. We made quite a few changes actually and summarised them here: http://alias.sh/thank-you-hacker-news-community

Go re-read that section. We've never sent people's passwords out to them and all passwords are stored encrypted.

I've never even thought of it that way. It's great to have other people's perspective.

I've mentioned bash here and there but I tried to be generic because people using other shells can also use the site.

Thanks, I thought it was clear from the three feature boxes at the top of the site but I see what you mean. I've added a few extra words into the opening paragraph.

Thanks, we're really happy with how the launch went. We couldn't have asked for more.

python one works fine for me. I tried tar xf on a zip file and it didn't work?

Good suggestion, it's definitely something we are on the fence about. I think "Alias" is better but it also made some of the copy sound a little confusing.

Yeah that's me.

Comments already exist. You can comment while logged in and viewing an alias. You can use them to post alternatives for now. This is something that will be considered as a new feature though in our next sprint.

Good suggestion. I just added it to the full page view and will consider adding it throughout the site in the next sprint.

Editing aliases could cause a security issue. Eg if someone is using your alias and you edited it to be malicious. We're planning on having private aliases which will be editable.

If you have a alias you want editing then send us an email from your email on your account and I can help you fix it up. admin at alias dot sh

Nope feel free to create another alias. Aliases can be voted up or down so eventually over time the best ones will rise to the top. Also if you want it on your profile just add it.

We did think about this and plan on adding private aliases soon so you can add them without cluttering the site or if you just don't want to share. :)

We only launched this morning so they're all very new. We do have a voting feature on the full page view so we're hoping the poorer aliases sink over time. We also intend to make the voting more prominent.

You can use the second command on your profile page.

source <(wget -q -O - "$@" https://alias.sh/user/7/alias)

This will source it every time you login. Otherwise you could easily put the first command on your profile in a cronjob to run one daily etc.