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Looking for thoughts, feedback, rants, raves. The site is essentially a safe way to share not safe content. With URL shorteners becoming popular it's hard to

Looking for thoughts, feedback, rants, raves. The site is essentially a safe way to share not safe content. With URL shorteners becoming popular it's hard to know if what you're clicking on is safe to visit (especially at work). isNSFW.com aims to fix that. Cheers -eli

keltecp11 17y ago
Great idea ELI... I like the 'rating' system... clever.
cedsav 17y ago
err.. the "I'm at work" button should not redirect you to Disney.com. try Google instead. Otherwise, great idea. [added link: http://isnsfw.com/yLyQTM http://isnsfw.com/yLyQTM]
- grexican 17y ago
  really? people seemed to LOVE the disney.com redirect. They found it quite amusing :) It originally went to google though, like you suggested. We'll see how things test out and it might very well make it back to google. Thanks for the feedback -eli
  - biohacker42 17y ago
    The redirect to Disney is definitely clever and funny. But I have to agree with cedsav, the joke will go from cute to annoying pretty fast, google is better.
  - webwright 17y ago
    Yaw, Disney is safer for work, but still isn't what you want on your screen when your boss/coworker walks by.
  - jpd 17y ago
    It would make more sense if the button was labeled, "I can't; I'm under 18!" I can't imagine many working people would be thrilled at the latest Pinnochio news.
  - mattmaroon 17y ago
    You should redirect them to amazon using your affiliate link and hope.
  - cedsav 17y ago
    I see how it can be funny, but the Disney homepage has some music playing, which kinda gives away that you're not doing anything work-related.
  - tracy 17y ago
    Define "people". How many, how diverse? Are these 'people' in your target audience? Can you extrapolate the opinion of those 'people' to hundreds of thousands of other people?
  - maximilian 17y ago
    perhaps redirect to a google search for disney. That way, there is a slight joke, but we still get our google fix.
  - dunk010 17y ago
    disney.com made me laugh :)
- harpastum 17y ago
  Why not just return the visitor to the previous page (if it exists)? If it doesn't exist, Google seems to be the best bet.
  - Sidnicious 17y ago
    I have a better idea (from a usability standpoint): Remove the "I'm at work" button entirely. It serves no purpose (other than being cute the first time it's clicked) so it will never be used. If I'm at work, I'll just close the page or go back.
bigsassy 17y ago
This is a great idea. I really hope that this becomes ubiquitous with posting NSFW links. It would be nice if you could affix multiple content descriptors, much like how the ESRB handles their rating system. See below for a reference: http://www.esrb.org/ratings/ratings_guide.jsp http://www.esrb.org/ratings/ratings_guide.jsp
- techraven 17y ago
  I like the idea, only problem is keeping it clean and simple... maybe version 2.0 will have this :)
ks 17y ago
I like your idea. Perhaps you should make the rating optional? If you want people to use this, you should make the number of steps required to a minimum
cedsav 17y ago
a couple wording suggestions: "Offensive Material: Link contains offensive content such as references to religion, abortion, 911, and the devil." "Link MAY contain", and 911 should be 9/11 (unless you're referring to the US emergency number)
aplusbi 17y ago
Suggestion: being able to select more than one rating. A link may have gore and nudity, it would be helpful if you can easily specify both.
paulgb 17y ago
I like the idea of a url shortener indicating the content. My real pet peeve is tinyurls to PDF files though. isPDF.com appears to be available, any takers? :)
jemmons 17y ago
How about a bookmarklet to drag into my bookmarks bar? I know it doesn't seem like much, but constantly copying and pasting URLs into shortening services is an inconvenience (and is seriously low-hanging fruit).
- grexican 17y ago
  bookmarklet was added today.
dandelany 17y ago
Just something little: Since you've got such a nice URL, you might make the NSFW-ness a little more obvious by generating links with NSFW capitalized (ie. http://isNSFW.com/XsYK8G http://isNSFW.com/XsYK8G rather than http://isnsfw.com/XsYK8G http://isnsfw.com/XsYK8G). isnsfw isn't as immediately parsable. Otherwise, very well done!

keltecp11 17y ago

Great idea ELI... I like the 'rating' system... clever.

cedsav 17y ago

err.. the "I'm at work" button should not redirect you to Disney.com. try Google instead. Otherwise, great idea. [added link: http://isnsfw.com/yLyQTM http://isnsfw.com/yLyQTM]

grexican 17y ago
really? people seemed to LOVE the disney.com redirect. They found it quite amusing :) It originally went to google though, like you suggested. We'll see how things test out and it might very well make it back to google. Thanks for the feedback -eli
- biohacker42 17y ago
  The redirect to Disney is definitely clever and funny. But I have to agree with cedsav, the joke will go from cute to annoying pretty fast, google is better.
- webwright 17y ago
  Yaw, Disney is safer for work, but still isn't what you want on your screen when your boss/coworker walks by.
- jpd 17y ago
  It would make more sense if the button was labeled, "I can't; I'm under 18!" I can't imagine many working people would be thrilled at the latest Pinnochio news.
- mattmaroon 17y ago
  You should redirect them to amazon using your affiliate link and hope.
- cedsav 17y ago
  I see how it can be funny, but the Disney homepage has some music playing, which kinda gives away that you're not doing anything work-related.
- tracy 17y ago
  Define "people". How many, how diverse? Are these 'people' in your target audience? Can you extrapolate the opinion of those 'people' to hundreds of thousands of other people?
- maximilian 17y ago
  perhaps redirect to a google search for disney. That way, there is a slight joke, but we still get our google fix.
- dunk010 17y ago
  disney.com made me laugh :)
harpastum 17y ago
Why not just return the visitor to the previous page (if it exists)? If it doesn't exist, Google seems to be the best bet.
- Sidnicious 17y ago
  I have a better idea (from a usability standpoint): Remove the "I'm at work" button entirely. It serves no purpose (other than being cute the first time it's clicked) so it will never be used. If I'm at work, I'll just close the page or go back.

bigsassy 17y ago

This is a great idea. I really hope that this becomes ubiquitous with posting NSFW links. It would be nice if you could affix multiple content descriptors, much like how the ESRB handles their rating system. See below for a reference: http://www.esrb.org/ratings/ratings_guide.jsp http://www.esrb.org/ratings/ratings_guide.jsp

techraven 17y ago
I like the idea, only problem is keeping it clean and simple... maybe version 2.0 will have this :)

ks 17y ago

I like your idea. Perhaps you should make the rating optional? If you want people to use this, you should make the number of steps required to a minimum

cedsav 17y ago

a couple wording suggestions: "Offensive Material: Link contains offensive content such as references to religion, abortion, 911, and the devil." "Link MAY contain", and 911 should be 9/11 (unless you're referring to the US emergency number)

aplusbi 17y ago

Suggestion: being able to select more than one rating. A link may have gore and nudity, it would be helpful if you can easily specify both.

paulgb 17y ago

I like the idea of a url shortener indicating the content. My real pet peeve is tinyurls to PDF files though. isPDF.com appears to be available, any takers? :)

jemmons 17y ago

How about a bookmarklet to drag into my bookmarks bar? I know it doesn't seem like much, but constantly copying and pasting URLs into shortening services is an inconvenience (and is seriously low-hanging fruit).

grexican 17y ago
bookmarklet was added today.

dandelany 17y ago

Just something little: Since you've got such a nice URL, you might make the NSFW-ness a little more obvious by generating links with NSFW capitalized (ie. http://isNSFW.com/XsYK8G http://isNSFW.com/XsYK8G rather than http://isnsfw.com/XsYK8G http://isnsfw.com/XsYK8G). isnsfw isn't as immediately parsable. Otherwise, very well done!