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They "do not support that". Agree that it would be a nice workaround. Should also be technically trivial.

by vgf 9y ago

sctb 9y ago
We're working on it.
- vgf 9y ago
  For months now. That is not credible. Seems like you actually need legislation as a deadline.
  - mziel 9y ago
    This is the case with most organisations. You have a finite amount of resources and attention, therefore you need to prioritise. Most GDPR chatter started picking up only in the last few months (of course big orgs have been preparing for the May deadline for a while already).
  - vgf3 9y ago
    This is still vgf. The first vgf was rate-limited ("you are posting too fast"). I created another user, vgf2. That user was also affected by the same rate-limit, based on cookies or IP. I'm now on a VPN in incognito mode, so no old cookies. I also note that this thread suddenly jumped from moving quickly onto the top of the front page to somewhere in the middle of page 2. Oh my. I dunno what to say except: shame on you, HN/YC.
  - NicoJuicy 9y ago
    Downvoted, deadline hasn't passed. No reason to stress about it
- vgf3 9y ago
  I guess I just want to provoke you by now, but when you say "you're working on it" ..what you actually worked on was a) rate-limiting my user (vgf) b) artificially moving my post to the second page using some kind of penalty? That is insanely weak sauce. How do you even look yourself in the mirror every morning? Anyway, all of this is useful stuff for May 25. I have been doing lots of screenshots the past hour.
krapp 9y ago
>Should also be technically trivial. It would be technically trivial for a forum built with the typical MVC architecture with data backed up in a relational database - just change some templates, point the user ID to a global 'deleted' user, and done, or something like that. But Hacker News is a project site built in a custom Lisp variant that runs on one core, mostly in RAM from what I understand, with all of the data in flat files, and I don't even know if they have a development server. Obviously, they can do it, but it may not be that trivial. Or maybe they could bang it out in an hour, I don't know. It would be nice if they put up a devlog and talked about some of the issues they have with updating the site and what their future plans with it were. Maybe talk up Arc and Lisp development a little.

They "do not support that". Agree that it would be a nice workaround. Should also be technically trivial.

by vgf 9y ago

They "do not support that". Agree that it would be a nice workaround. Should also be technically trivial.

sctb 9y ago

We're working on it.

vgf 9y ago
For months now. That is not credible. Seems like you actually need legislation as a deadline.
- mziel 9y ago
  This is the case with most organisations. You have a finite amount of resources and attention, therefore you need to prioritise. Most GDPR chatter started picking up only in the last few months (of course big orgs have been preparing for the May deadline for a while already).
- vgf3 9y ago
  This is still vgf. The first vgf was rate-limited ("you are posting too fast"). I created another user, vgf2. That user was also affected by the same rate-limit, based on cookies or IP. I'm now on a VPN in incognito mode, so no old cookies. I also note that this thread suddenly jumped from moving quickly onto the top of the front page to somewhere in the middle of page 2. Oh my. I dunno what to say except: shame on you, HN/YC.
- NicoJuicy 9y ago
  Downvoted, deadline hasn't passed. No reason to stress about it
vgf3 9y ago
I guess I just want to provoke you by now, but when you say "you're working on it" ..what you actually worked on was a) rate-limiting my user (vgf) b) artificially moving my post to the second page using some kind of penalty? That is insanely weak sauce. How do you even look yourself in the mirror every morning? Anyway, all of this is useful stuff for May 25. I have been doing lots of screenshots the past hour.

krapp 9y ago

>Should also be technically trivial. It would be technically trivial for a forum built with the typical MVC architecture with data backed up in a relational database - just change some templates, point the user ID to a global 'deleted' user, and done, or something like that. But Hacker News is a project site built in a custom Lisp variant that runs on one core, mostly in RAM from what I understand, with all of the data in flat files, and I don't even know if they have a development server. Obviously, they can do it, but it may not be that trivial. Or maybe they could bang it out in an hour, I don't know. It would be nice if they put up a devlog and talked about some of the issues they have with updating the site and what their future plans with it were. Maybe talk up Arc and Lisp development a little.