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I'm not being clear. What does this site actually do? All I saw it do was echo the text I entered back at me, and store it the equivalent of a tinyurl.

• andreyf 19y ago
  It can password protect it, and you can link things from page to page. Some of the best sites don't do anything "impressive", really...
  • thomasptacek 19y ago
    For example?
    • nostrademons 19y ago
      Reddit, LiveJournal, FaceBook?
      • pc 19y ago
        You can criticise many aspects of Facebook... but it does a lot of impressive things.
        • irrelative 19y ago
          Actually? I sort of think that facebook's impressiveness is in its ability to scale the features so nicely. I don't think there are any features on facebook that couldn't be made by your average ycombinator news reader (they might be slow as all hell, but I bet most of us could create working demos of most features).
          • pc 19y ago
            Facebook does a lot of almost invisible but extremely smart things. Two examples: when you specify the type of relationship when adding a friend, Facebook uses the info to decide how much information to present about the person in your news feed. Or when two people list themselves as being in a relationship, Facebook will show the most recent picture of the two together (if such a picture exists, and privacy permissions permit it in your case). Nothing fancy. Just extremely well thought out.
      • brett 19y ago
        Wow. I can't remember ever seeing a negative nostrademons comment. Obviously that's not earth shattering but it is feeling like downvoting is more generally on the rise around here.