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Sopa.js

30 points by sahillavingia 15y ago

kirpekar 15y ago
Good intentions, but the garbled text looks awful. Took me 5+ seconds to find the stop SOPA banner to the top-right. A simple black-out, shadow, overlay would be better.
gkoberger 15y ago
You should never hotlink off a site you don't trust (and given some spammy things Sahil has done in the past, I wouldn't trust it). If you use this, make sure you copy both the CSS and JS onto your own site (and change the JS to point to the right CSS file). This doesn't mention two things: 1) You need jQuery already for this to work. 2) You should put the JavaScript at the end of the page, not the top.
- sahillavingia 15y ago
  Thanks for the feedback! I've edited the post to include your requests.
- citricsquid 15y ago
  > and given some spammy things Sahil has done in the past, I wouldn't trust it Dare I ask for context?
  - coderdude 15y ago
    I'd like him to elaborate on this as well. That's a fairly damaging thing to say about someone who does these sorts of things (publishing products and services online). All I know him for is Gumroad.
  - gkoberger 15y ago
    Didn't mean to be vague, just didn't want to start anything. He created an app (http://dscr.be/ http://dscr.be/) that required you to log in via Twitter. After a bit, it tweeted a link to his site and followed him, without telling the user that would happen. (After I talked to him, he added the checkbox that is there now -- that wasn't there for a long time.) He also follows massive amounts of people and then unfollows them. Every two weeks or so, I get an email saying he just started following me. Neither of these are the end of the world, but I wouldn't run random JavaScript that he can change whenever he wants on my page. EDIT: Sahil contacted me and said: "sorry, the massive following/unfollowing just isn't true. I normally just do it to you to remind you I exist. :)"
    - sahillavingia 15y ago
      I don't really like responding to haters on Hacker News. But, if anyone wants more information about the above comment (which is wrong multiple times), please email me and I'll respond there: sahil@slavingia.com. Thanks!
chc 15y ago
This seems a bit obtuse and lacking in a strong call to action. I like Zach Johnson's anti-SOPA page better: https://github.com/zachstronaut/stop-sopa https://github.com/zachstronaut/stop-sopa It's much more visually interesting than most, so it might actually grab people's attention.
bdg 15y ago
Am I the only one this does nothing for?

30 points by sahillavingia 15y ago

Good intentions, but the garbled text looks awful. Took me 5+ seconds to find the stop SOPA banner to the top-right. A simple black-out, shadow, overlay would be better.

gkoberger 15y ago

You should never hotlink off a site you don't trust (and given some spammy things Sahil has done in the past, I wouldn't trust it). If you use this, make sure you copy both the CSS and JS onto your own site (and change the JS to point to the right CSS file). This doesn't mention two things: 1) You need jQuery already for this to work. 2) You should put the JavaScript at the end of the page, not the top.

sahillavingia 15y ago
Thanks for the feedback! I've edited the post to include your requests.
citricsquid 15y ago
> and given some spammy things Sahil has done in the past, I wouldn't trust it Dare I ask for context?
- coderdude 15y ago
  I'd like him to elaborate on this as well. That's a fairly damaging thing to say about someone who does these sorts of things (publishing products and services online). All I know him for is Gumroad.
- gkoberger 15y ago
  Didn't mean to be vague, just didn't want to start anything. He created an app (http://dscr.be/ http://dscr.be/) that required you to log in via Twitter. After a bit, it tweeted a link to his site and followed him, without telling the user that would happen. (After I talked to him, he added the checkbox that is there now -- that wasn't there for a long time.) He also follows massive amounts of people and then unfollows them. Every two weeks or so, I get an email saying he just started following me. Neither of these are the end of the world, but I wouldn't run random JavaScript that he can change whenever he wants on my page. EDIT: Sahil contacted me and said: "sorry, the massive following/unfollowing just isn't true. I normally just do it to you to remind you I exist. :)"
  - sahillavingia 15y ago
    I don't really like responding to haters on Hacker News. But, if anyone wants more information about the above comment (which is wrong multiple times), please email me and I'll respond there: sahil@slavingia.com. Thanks!

chc 15y ago

This seems a bit obtuse and lacking in a strong call to action. I like Zach Johnson's anti-SOPA page better: https://github.com/zachstronaut/stop-sopa https://github.com/zachstronaut/stop-sopa It's much more visually interesting than most, so it might actually grab people's attention.

bdg 15y ago

Am I the only one this does nothing for?