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May I suggest changing the name from 'Typescript Playground' to something like 'Typescript Sandbox'? I found myself on a very nsfw website at work after clickin

May I suggest changing the name from 'Typescript Playground' to something like 'Typescript Sandbox'? I found myself on a very nsfw website at work after clicking on a link shown in the results of a search using the strings 'TS' and 'Playground'.

arxanas 6y ago
This has happened to me multiple times as well.
sbergot 6y ago
Try going to python.com to see what happens :p
- stared 6y ago
  Nothing beats LaTeX. Image searches for symbols destroyed many innocent mathematicians.
  - johnhenry 6y ago
    Try searching "LaTeΧ". (That's a "Chi" not an "Ex")
- giancarlostoro 6y ago
  Are their web services powered by Python at least? I am more surprised I never accidentally went to this site honestly.
zellyn 6y ago
I couldn't get this to happen with Google — every result was for typescript. I tried using duckduckgo and every result but one was porn. Guess I can put off that decision to switch to ddg a bit longer…
- 52-6F-62 6y ago
  I tried "typescript playground" and thought you were full of it because all of the results were relevant. Then I tried "ts playground". Woof. That is a big no-go! I definitely recommend being specific and explicit (in your phrasing...) with ddg still.
- stu2b50 6y ago
  Same for me. There's the benefit of user tracking, I guess. I definitely Google for docs frequently so it makes sense to tailor the results for the language.
  - zellyn 6y ago
    Unless Google is noticing my IP and doing user tracking in Firefox Private tabs, it's not user tracking. It's just understanding the query better.
- Shacklz 6y ago
  Only if you have the "Safe Search"-Option set to "moderate" (default) or below. If you set it to strict, typescript appears as the second result for me, without porn (but still a few links that I wouldn't want to click).
- buzer 6y ago
  For me first page of Google results were about typescript (except for one imdb entry) in both normal & private mode, but image & video search had nothing to do with typescript. Safe search was off. Location probably plays a part in the normal search.
  - BrandoElFollito 6y ago
    Yes. From France the first link is about typescript, then porn all the way It is funny how do many people jumped on the search "for research" and proudly report back on the typescript vs porn ratio.
    - 6y ago
y-c-o-m-b 6y ago
Hahaha this brings back memories. Back in the 90s I had a homepage on Angelfire.com. I was in high school at the time and I would work on the homepage during lunch in the school library if a computer was available. I walked into the library one day and all three computers were taken, but right before I turned around to leave, somebody got up and freed up the middle computer. I quickly darted over to it before someone else had the chance. I sat down and because my adrenaline was slightly going, I typed in Angelfire.com really fast, ready to start building. Only it was anglefire.com, a hardcore porn site with flashing green banners and gifs, VERY noticeable. I was so confused as to what the fuck just happened that I froze for several seconds - staring at the screen in disbelief - before it occurred to me to close the god damn browser idiot! I remember going into a full-on panic; nausea, heart-racing, the works. I was sure I got caught and would be expelled. There's no way it went undetected. I was surrounded by two people to my sides, six people at the circle desk behind me, and the librarian working at the shelf behind them. Somehow during those many seconds of just staring at the screen in a panic, not a single freakin person noticed! I couldn't believe it. Now you would think I would be thankful nothing bad came of it and learned a valuable lesson, but being the opportunistic teenager I was, I took note how everyone was so entrenched within their own personal bubble. They wouldn't notice anything I was doing at those computers. I eventually used that knowledge to hack the security software on there and install a key-logger...
orta 6y ago
It's a good idea, and I did consider it, but it's been "playground" for 7 years and even third party versions kept the playground name to let people know it's a REPL. Breaking that is a pretty big change which I opted to not do. Your choice of naming matches mine too, the abstraction which lets anyone build their own TS repl is called the sandbox: https://www.typescriptlang.org/dev/sandbox/ https://www.typescriptlang.org/dev/sandbox/

arxanas 6y ago

This has happened to me multiple times as well.

sbergot 6y ago

Try going to python.com to see what happens :p

stared 6y ago
Nothing beats LaTeX. Image searches for symbols destroyed many innocent mathematicians.
- johnhenry 6y ago
  Try searching "LaTeΧ". (That's a "Chi" not an "Ex")
giancarlostoro 6y ago
Are their web services powered by Python at least? I am more surprised I never accidentally went to this site honestly.

zellyn 6y ago

I couldn't get this to happen with Google — every result was for typescript. I tried using duckduckgo and every result but one was porn. Guess I can put off that decision to switch to ddg a bit longer…

52-6F-62 6y ago
I tried "typescript playground" and thought you were full of it because all of the results were relevant. Then I tried "ts playground". Woof. That is a big no-go! I definitely recommend being specific and explicit (in your phrasing...) with ddg still.
stu2b50 6y ago
Same for me. There's the benefit of user tracking, I guess. I definitely Google for docs frequently so it makes sense to tailor the results for the language.
- zellyn 6y ago
  Unless Google is noticing my IP and doing user tracking in Firefox Private tabs, it's not user tracking. It's just understanding the query better.
Shacklz 6y ago
Only if you have the "Safe Search"-Option set to "moderate" (default) or below. If you set it to strict, typescript appears as the second result for me, without porn (but still a few links that I wouldn't want to click).
buzer 6y ago
For me first page of Google results were about typescript (except for one imdb entry) in both normal & private mode, but image & video search had nothing to do with typescript. Safe search was off. Location probably plays a part in the normal search.
- BrandoElFollito 6y ago
  Yes. From France the first link is about typescript, then porn all the way It is funny how do many people jumped on the search "for research" and proudly report back on the typescript vs porn ratio.
  - 6y ago

y-c-o-m-b 6y ago

Hahaha this brings back memories. Back in the 90s I had a homepage on Angelfire.com. I was in high school at the time and I would work on the homepage during lunch in the school library if a computer was available. I walked into the library one day and all three computers were taken, but right before I turned around to leave, somebody got up and freed up the middle computer. I quickly darted over to it before someone else had the chance. I sat down and because my adrenaline was slightly going, I typed in Angelfire.com really fast, ready to start building. Only it was anglefire.com, a hardcore porn site with flashing green banners and gifs, VERY noticeable. I was so confused as to what the fuck just happened that I froze for several seconds - staring at the screen in disbelief - before it occurred to me to close the god damn browser idiot! I remember going into a full-on panic; nausea, heart-racing, the works. I was sure I got caught and would be expelled. There's no way it went undetected. I was surrounded by two people to my sides, six people at the circle desk behind me, and the librarian working at the shelf behind them. Somehow during those many seconds of just staring at the screen in a panic, not a single freakin person noticed! I couldn't believe it. Now you would think I would be thankful nothing bad came of it and learned a valuable lesson, but being the opportunistic teenager I was, I took note how everyone was so entrenched within their own personal bubble. They wouldn't notice anything I was doing at those computers. I eventually used that knowledge to hack the security software on there and install a key-logger...

orta 6y ago

It's a good idea, and I did consider it, but it's been "playground" for 7 years and even third party versions kept the playground name to let people know it's a REPL. Breaking that is a pretty big change which I opted to not do. Your choice of naming matches mine too, the abstraction which lets anyone build their own TS repl is called the sandbox: https://www.typescriptlang.org/dev/sandbox/ https://www.typescriptlang.org/dev/sandbox/