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jwz dislikes hackernews and does referer checks - copy/paste that link if you want to check it out.
by ryan-c 11y ago
jwz dislikes hackernews and does referer checks - copy/paste that link if you want to check it out.
- smcl 11y agoAny idea why? Seems either a bit juvenile, or hostile
- detaro 11y ago@sloverlord Hacker News is a steaming cesspool and I don't have time or desire to deal with their bandwidth demands, so I just block them. https://twitter.com/jwz/status/665658171415859200 https://twitter.com/jwz/status/665658171415859200
- smcl 11y agoAhh. Seems a little odd to me, but I can understand why it'd be inconvenient to be inadvertently DDOSd now and then
- laumars 11y agoIt's more than just odd. Most people strive towards their published articles getting attention and yet he's aggressively blocking entire communities against it. It's not even as if he has a valid concern about bandwidth since the content is all static and it would literally cost him nothing to run that behind Cloudflare and let them deal with the bandwidth spikes. The whole think feels more like an elitist attack against the HN community specifically (not helped by his description) rather than a carefully thought-out traffic management plan. But his site. His prerogative. It's not like he has to share his thoughts everyone indiscriminately.
- mreiland 11y agoMy guess it because HN can feel a bit stifling to those that enjoy actual discourse.
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- colanderman 11y agoYa, makes him look like an ass. Especially since he doesn't seem to know what "hotlinking" means.
- oldmanjay 11y agodid you read the link? the correct answer is probably "both"
- smcl 11y agoWhich link? I read the ArsTechnica article and the JWZ article linked but none explained his HN aversion. Though the JWZ tweet that detaro posted explained a little