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Top work. Wonder what the legal implications for OP might be though.

amelius 9y ago
Apparently, the Wikipedia page on Sci-hub also maintains a link to the active versions. (And to be honest, that's a fact easier to remember than "whereisscihub.herokuapp.com"; the author should really find an easier url) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub
- Vinnl 9y ago
  > the author should really find an easier url Hehe, I guess - I just thought of this and coded it up this morning. Feel free to host it somewhere easier though, it's open source :) I agree that Wikipedia is easier to remember; it's just that people don't seem to realise that it's always up-to-date, as people keep tweeting the latest links. The point of the website is simply to make it clearer that there's a place to stay up-to-date. (And that you can bookmark for a direct link.)
- Vinnl 9y ago
  > the author should really find an easier url It's now also available at https://whereisscihub.now.sh/ https://whereisscihub.now.sh/!
  - vxNsr 9y ago
    maybe add that to the top post? I was gonna suggest: http://www.dot.tk http://www.dot.tk if you want your own domain.
    - Vinnl 9y ago
      Unfortunately I can't edit that anymore :(
- bringtheaction 9y ago
  If you bookmark it then your browser will autocomplete when you type “scihub”. If you bookmark the Wikipedia article as well then you have autocomplete for “sci-hub”. So then together you have autocomplete for both. However I predict that the Wikipedia article will outlive the site OP made. It’s a fact of life that most sites (including a bunch I made myself so it’s not meant as any form of criticism) don’t last very long, either because the owner forgets to renew the domain or they’ve lost interest and don’t want to pay for it, or their hosting provider shuts down (don’t think heroku will anytime soon though), or the server they are hosted on has a disk malfunction (probably heroku customers will not suffer from that since I think heroku has a redundant storage solution in place), or the site gets out of date in regards to either the runtime on the server or an external API that is being used.
  - Vinnl 9y ago
    Although I agree that it's just fine to use Wikipedia directly if you're aware of it, the main risk in this case is reaching the limits of the free tier of Heroku, I think. Otherwise, it's only dependent on Heroku, the Wikidata API, and Wikidata being maintained. Those are relatively safe assumptions. Also, the code is open source, so you can easily fork it and host it on e.g. your own Heroku account :)
Vinnl 9y ago
It's a direct representation of Wikidata, I'm merely passing it on.
bob_theslob646 9y ago
If that were the case, wouldn't Google or any other search engine that points to any illegal website be in trouble as well? I think it is a gray area and the real liability is whoever hosts the website.
- paulgb 9y ago
  Google honors DMCA takedown requests against content, e.g. https://www.lumendatabase.org/notices/15978262 https://www.lumendatabase.org/notices/15978262

Apparently, the Wikipedia page on Sci-hub also maintains a link to the active versions. (And to be honest, that's a fact easier to remember than "whereisscihub.herokuapp.com"; the author should really find an easier url) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub

Vinnl 9y ago
> the author should really find an easier url Hehe, I guess - I just thought of this and coded it up this morning. Feel free to host it somewhere easier though, it's open source :) I agree that Wikipedia is easier to remember; it's just that people don't seem to realise that it's always up-to-date, as people keep tweeting the latest links. The point of the website is simply to make it clearer that there's a place to stay up-to-date. (And that you can bookmark for a direct link.)
Vinnl 9y ago
> the author should really find an easier url It's now also available at https://whereisscihub.now.sh/ https://whereisscihub.now.sh/!
- vxNsr 9y ago
  maybe add that to the top post? I was gonna suggest: http://www.dot.tk http://www.dot.tk if you want your own domain.
  - Vinnl 9y ago
    Unfortunately I can't edit that anymore :(
bringtheaction 9y ago
If you bookmark it then your browser will autocomplete when you type “scihub”. If you bookmark the Wikipedia article as well then you have autocomplete for “sci-hub”. So then together you have autocomplete for both. However I predict that the Wikipedia article will outlive the site OP made. It’s a fact of life that most sites (including a bunch I made myself so it’s not meant as any form of criticism) don’t last very long, either because the owner forgets to renew the domain or they’ve lost interest and don’t want to pay for it, or their hosting provider shuts down (don’t think heroku will anytime soon though), or the server they are hosted on has a disk malfunction (probably heroku customers will not suffer from that since I think heroku has a redundant storage solution in place), or the site gets out of date in regards to either the runtime on the server or an external API that is being used.
- Vinnl 9y ago
  Although I agree that it's just fine to use Wikipedia directly if you're aware of it, the main risk in this case is reaching the limits of the free tier of Heroku, I think. Otherwise, it's only dependent on Heroku, the Wikidata API, and Wikidata being maintained. Those are relatively safe assumptions. Also, the code is open source, so you can easily fork it and host it on e.g. your own Heroku account :)

Vinnl 9y ago

It's a direct representation of Wikidata, I'm merely passing it on.

bob_theslob646 9y ago

If that were the case, wouldn't Google or any other search engine that points to any illegal website be in trouble as well? I think it is a gray area and the real liability is whoever hosts the website.

paulgb 9y ago
Google honors DMCA takedown requests against content, e.g. https://www.lumendatabase.org/notices/15978262 https://www.lumendatabase.org/notices/15978262