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>"Also dealing with the hate you get when you charge for an online service requires you to grow a thick skin." Out of curiosity, was the fallout over the lack
by xiaoma 10y ago
>"Also dealing with the hate you get when you charge for an online service requires you to grow a thick skin."
Out of curiosity, was the fallout over the lack of security very bad? I was in Chiang Mai last fall and nomads at coworking spaces and meetups were all talking about it. Several downloaded the entire chat logs from Nomad List. I was horrified to be honest but hadn't really chatted about much of anything yet so I never complained.
I will say though that it was a bit grating to see you bragging on twitter about not bothering with frameworks or testing right after having seen discussions I'd thought were at least somewhat private downloaded and passed around online.
- pieterhg 10y agoWhat. No, there was never a security breach. We uploaded the logs because people asked for them. Lots of people asked for the chat logs (of public channels only) to be public and searchable. Like the forum. So I made them. Then lots of people didn't like that and wanted them to be private. It was never a security leak, I uploaded the logs myself. That was the whole point. I've never had any security breaches. It was never a private chat, it's always been publicly accessible by anyone who paid the entrance fee and then scraped it. And they could (and probably) have already done that since the beginning.
- xiaoma 10y agoWoah... everyone was saying there was. I hadn't been engaged enough on the site after arriving to realize. Thanks for clearing that up! (I guess misunderstandings are also difficult to catch as a solo team, too)
- pieterhg 10y agoHaha yes. I think at a certain scale you get rumors. I was never aware people thought it was a breach btw! Pretty crazy.