Hello. It's almost exclusively a nodejs + redis stack.
There are currently a little over 200 people on the page and moderating the site is taking most of my attention, I'll try to answer all questions in this thread anyways.
Talking about 4chan, I really love how this site seems to be a mix of some kind of IRC and imageboard.
It's also bringing back memories of some DC++ rooms I used to visit when it was the best way to share files.
I'm German so I probably can't apply to YC.
Plus I've just made this as a hobby/side project and don't have time to deal with trying to monetize it yet.
I am assuming this was not PG. There are much better ways to contact a site owner. Also the user kept saying "DROP THE THE". Obviously there is no "the" in the site's name.
The 12-hour lifespan of content links is interesting; it prevents indexing or hot-linking content on the site. Even if the RIAA/MPAA/etc. set up bots watching the room and issuing takedowns for infringing files, the time allowed to comply with a DMCA takedown is greater than the lifespan of a file on the service.
In other words: this should be fun, until they get sued out of existence.
I know a lot of this post-PRISM fear of the US government is to be expected and is certainly popular on HN, but comments that single out the US like this really make little sense to me. The governments of Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand all share tech-related intel with the United States and, potentially if not presumably, have similarly intrusive methods of surveillance. China goes so far as to ban social media sites that they don't have control over (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube) and replaces them with sites that they do (renren, weibo, and youku/tudou). That, combined with general censorship of the web, is far scarier than what the NSA does, even assuming the NSA's scope is as wide as television shows make it out to be. And even in most other countries, the scope of domestic Internet surveillance is unknown, which is very different from "known to be minimal".
Edit: Ah if this was about intellectual property takedowns, then currently the US situation is a bit worse than most of the rest of the world. But still, China friggin censors their Internet, and comments like the above still seem to always single out the US.
Uploaded ~100GB of it to S3, wasn't thinking enough to check torrent size limits. S3 limits torrents to 5GB objects. Want me to provide personal info for you to get in touch with me? I can mail you a SATA drive with the archive on it.
In this case though, it does make sense. For this example we're not talking about surveillance, but about intellectual property takedowns, something which american companies find (slightly) harder to do in countries other than the USA.
The USA has taken possession of .com domains and raided physical premises based on copyright.
This need have nothing to do with the NSA and still be a perfectly valid and reasonable suggestion.
I think it's reasonable that any site that has user generated content should consider not being hosted on US soil or using a .tld that is under US control.
> Ah if this was about intellectual property takedowns, then currently the US situation is a bit worse than most of the rest of the world. But still, China friggin censors their Internet, and comments like the above still seem to always single out the US.
Okay, let me give you the reasons:
a) No one would normally host their content in China. That's just ridiculous.
b) No other country is bragging as much about being the land of the free. So of course the one (perceived to be) at the top is going to take the most flak
c) Generally most bigger things are US hosted so the general advice to for example move your host away from Uruguay makes little sense
d) It's usually assumed that while other western industrial nations would like to spy as much as the US does, they usually do not have the money and manpower of the NSA.
Problem is upstream will either charge for handling take-down requests, null route the IP, or ask that they take their business elsewhere. I can imagine this generating dozens of abuse requests a day. It doesn't matter if you auto-comply within 12 hours - upstream still has to put time figuring things out.
I love this idea and I think this has the potential to be really amazing. I could see myself using it socially as well as a sort of remote office. The ability to have music autoplay (? it appears anyway, doesn't seem to be working for me right now) seems very interesting. I think you're really onto something with this. My main concern would be privacy before I started using this on any type of regular basis though. If you can solve that, or even really just make a self-hosted version, I'd be all over it.
Or they can just take the executable and change the extension. Extension-based blocking doesn't really work. However, these types of files generally have magic numbers in their headers that you could inspect to determine what they are.
Also, it'd be rather inconvenient if you couldn't upload a compressed archive to a file-sharing site.
This thing will explode. Get ready to monetize or shut it down :) Easy thing you could do is rate limit transfers by default and offer higher bandwidth with a small bitcoin payment.
Please dont go down this route it leaves bad taste.
Any site which segregates its users, oppreses those non-paying, poor people, isnt attractive at least in my book.
An alternative is to do like reddit, offer pay-for-services in exchange for something more, not take away functionality from those poor users to force some kind of payments.
> Announcement: Because of the high traffic we are seeing right now, the radio might take a long time to load or not work at all.
Hacker News killed the radio star.
Very cool idea. With a little faster chat (there's currently quite a delay between saying something and seeing it displayed) I can see it catching on. Hang out, share files, listen to the music together.
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Very cool!
In other words: this should be fun, until they get sued out of existence.
EDIT: DISREGARD. It's already hosted outside the US. (Germany: https://www.ip-projects.de/)
Edit: Ah if this was about intellectual property takedowns, then currently the US situation is a bit worse than most of the rest of the world. But still, China friggin censors their Internet, and comments like the above still seem to always single out the US.
This need have nothing to do with the NSA and still be a perfectly valid and reasonable suggestion.
I think it's reasonable that any site that has user generated content should consider not being hosted on US soil or using a .tld that is under US control.
Okay, let me give you the reasons:
a) No one would normally host their content in China. That's just ridiculous.
b) No other country is bragging as much about being the land of the free. So of course the one (perceived to be) at the top is going to take the most flak
c) Generally most bigger things are US hosted so the general advice to for example move your host away from Uruguay makes little sense
d) It's usually assumed that while other western industrial nations would like to spy as much as the US does, they usually do not have the money and manpower of the NSA.
And then a shit load of file extensions that potentially run arbitrary code if you have the tool installed.
Seems kind of pointless.
Also, it'd be rather inconvenient if you couldn't upload a compressed archive to a file-sharing site.
Any site which segregates its users, oppreses those non-paying, poor people, isnt attractive at least in my book.
An alternative is to do like reddit, offer pay-for-services in exchange for something more, not take away functionality from those poor users to force some kind of payments.
Hacker News killed the radio star.
Very cool idea. With a little faster chat (there's currently quite a delay between saying something and seeing it displayed) I can see it catching on. Hang out, share files, listen to the music together.