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Show HN: Boost mailing list signups with Safe Harbor
It's written as a blog post but it's really a Show HN, as you'll see.
https://ramachandr.in/2018/05/19/the-1-reason-why-no-one-signs-up-for-your-mailing-list/ https://ramachandr.in/2018/05/19/the-1-reason-why-no-one-sig...
- timvdalen 8y agoRepo: https://github.com/saiscode/safe-harbor https://github.com/saiscode/safe-harbor Do you have an explanation of the source[1] somewhere? I don't really understand why you'd need window.performance or why this requires PubNub (Which also doesn't seem to be loaded as a dependency). [1]: https://github.com/saiscode/safe-harbor/blob/master/assets/js/0.1/safeharbor.js https://github.com/saiscode/safe-harbor/blob/master/assets/j...
- dylz 8y agowindow.performance.navigation.type = 1 is a reload, = 0 is a navigate. It is checking if the page loaded via clicking a link or otherwise, at least.
- saimiam 8y agoI had a couple of constraints which made me go with a tool like Pubnub. 1. I wanted to release this to the public. 2. I wanted to have the option of adding support for future socialmedia referrers without releasing new code. To solve for 2, I chose to create a central server which pushes out up-to-date styling instructions on request. The alternative would have been to create a static css file which runs into issues of caching. To solve for 1, I chose messaging (PubNub) instead of http to (a) avoid dealing with CORS because I wasn't sure I'd get it right because my infra is selfhosted (b) learn and use messaging in a live app. > window.performance That flag is to check if a page is being reloaded or not. Since the referrer http header (from where javascript presumably gets its value) persists across reloads, to keep track of true referrals vs reloads, I check for the value of this flag.