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- bestest 13y agoplease forgive my humble input, but wtf?
- agsamek 13y agoBe patient. It will go.
- agilebyte 13y agoI may be bad at reading facial expressions and may be assuming the best scenario (...) but that person seems a bit sad to me. Maybe to feel connected to others?
- kintamanimatt 13y agoThat's a contrived expression, and not one of genuine sadness; he's pulling a face, not expressing an emotion. You can see on his GitHub profile he's got a similar facial expression, although a little less pronounced. [0] It's kinda like his duck face! I think this has just been created for giggles, not for any particular reason. Admittedly, it piqued my curiosity! [0] https://github.com/clayallsopp https://github.com/clayallsopp
- frozenport 13y agor/circlejerk ?
- adamlj 13y agoSeeing the hits/sec on the count down is pretty impressive
- gamegoblin 13y agoYeah I was watching it lose about 30 every time I refreshed it. This is an interesting concept, for sure.
- zefi 13y agoA variant of this, involving payment, could be the future of journalism.
- jmtame 13y agoThis content disappears after 1,000 views unless you pay $5.
- glifchits 13y agoBut if you have seen it, what's the incentive for paying money after the fact? If you haven't seen it then it's just the same as a paywall.
- tunesmith 13y agoBecause you want other people to read it.
- hnha 13y agoselect, copy, paste, share, the end.
- robotresearcher 13y agoselect, copy, paste, share (copyright violation), the end. It's kind of not OK to distribute other people's work when they don't want you to.
- arjie 13y agoYour users will still do it, and you won't be able to stop them.
- robotresearcher 13y agoRight. I'm just saying it's not a strategy to advocate.
- azth 13y agoAnd it's gone :)
- pdw 13y agoMeh, seems like it can be revived with another tweet.
- yaddayadda 13y agoIt'd be great to publicize a dataset of hit-times from each ip and from twitter accounts.
- link10 13y agohttp://i.imgur.com/Tz8K46w.png http://i.imgur.com/Tz8K46w.png
- richardv 13y agoKinda feel like a jerk on this one. Wasn't really expecting to be able to nuke it so easily. ab -c 30 -n 3000 http://www.blinklink.me/b/4XIxfoeF4C0 Concurrency Level: 30 Time taken for tests: 93.802 seconds Complete requests: 3000 Failed requests: 2137 (Connect: 0, Receive: 0, Length: 2137, Exceptions: 0) Write errors: 0 Requests per second: 31.98 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 938.024 [ms] (mean) Time per request: 31.267 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests) Transfer rate: 182.47 [Kbytes/sec] received Connection Times (ms) min mean[+/-sd] median max Connect: 116 165 165.9 122 1276 Processing: 137 771 624.6 625 6827 Waiting: 132 733 595.7 601 6823 Total: 254 936 644.7 789 7062 Perhaps should have "view" throttling per IP. Quite a few mechanisms could have solved my abuse.
- tyilo 13y agoWhat is ab?
- rdouble 13y agoapache bench
- jweese 13y agoI didn't know either. Per "man ab": > ab - Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool
- lucb1e 13y agoWithout having to open the man page: $ whatis ab ab (1) - Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool Or with bsd-games installed: $ wtf ab ab: ab (1) - Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool
- thameera 13y agoIs there a similar tool to see what a certain option in a command does, without opening the man page?
- gotoY 13y agogotcha! http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.blinklink.me/b/4XIxfoeF4C0 http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
- ggreer 13y agoI'm not sure if the submitter created BlinkLink, but I hope the author had fun making it. It's a neat idea, and it exploits human psychology in clever ways. I like how the reward for tweeting increases as the number of views remaining goes down. Also, people are driven to share the link with their friends immediately since they know views remaining are scarce. That said, it's pretty easy to mirror content. In case the link is dead, http://i.imgur.com/KGo7oRH.jpg http://i.imgur.com/KGo7oRH.jpg is what was on the page originally. Oh, and I found a UI annoyance. On the front page (http://www.blinklink.me/ http://www.blinklink.me/), the blue "Make a BlinkLink" button at the top that says is just a link to blinklink.me. The bottom button (which is a less-noticeable white) actually posts the form. You should probably hide the top button on the front page.
- visionscaper 13y agoI think this a neat idea as well; IMHO it has a lot of potential as a marketing tool. Who doesn't want to help his/her favorite product/service/band/event/cause keep the page alive by giving it attention (sharing the link). That you can mirror the content is maybe not even that important from a psychological point of view.
- wicknicks 13y agoI find it very interesting how the fact that making the rules of the game "obvious" changes the way people approach. If you think about it, almost all content on the internet follows this rule: share-or-die. But here, after slapping the die part on the face, people are forcing themselves to post the link on twitter. Very cool!
- H3g3m0n 13y agoI would hardly describe requiring people to spam as cool. More like fucking annoying. Also you have no idea what the content will be until you have propagated the spam, it could just be penis pills.
- kristopolous 13y ago
- jmtame 13y agoThis is like Snapchat for the web, except it's too easy to take a screenshot of the content which means there's not much of a point to the view limit. You could make it difficult perhaps by requiring the user follow a path with their mouse, otherwise white noise appears. That way they cannot actually move their cursor to take a screenshot. Maybe do something else to occupy one of their other hands, such as pressing a series of keys. Of course someone else could be standing there ready to push the "print screen" button or use a camera, like you can with Snapchat. Don't forget a time limit.
- nemo1618 13y agoYou could improve it significantly by implementing something similar to this: http://www.donothingfor2minutes.com/ http://www.donothingfor2minutes.com/ Any mouse movement or keypresses would blank the page and you'd have to reload it to see the contents again. Of course, there are probably ways to subvert this, but it would stop most people.
- nrivadeneira 13y agoI'm sure there are Windows and Mac equivalents, but Ubuntu has a timed screenshot option. It would be fairly easy to just set the timer, go the the website, and wait. But I agree, most people probably won't care enough or think of it.
- grey-area 13y agoMost people would just take out their camera phone and take a snapshot, as they do on snapchat. Trying to make something like this secure from screenshots is absurd.
- paul9290 13y agoSnapchat for URLs
- jjoe 13y agoWhat a great innovation that now content disappears...unless you tweet...
- hornbaker 13y agoWhy does the view count change wildly up and down as I refresh? Otherwise, love it. Needs a favicon. Get ready for viral growth.
- Anonymous238 13y agoIt's an interesting concept, However, I'm struggling to figure out a situation where it would be useful. There might be something here, just not in it's current state, and for that reason, I don't see it going viral anytime soon.
- shmageggy 13y agoReminds me of this http://www.savetoby.com/ http://www.savetoby.com/
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- coherentpony 13y agoAm I the only one that finds this 'feature' utterly pointless?
- farolino 13y agoI disagree with other posters, I think this is a great concept. It would be fantastic for brands to share promotional offers and voucher codes as people would have to tweet to revive access to the code therefore spreading the promo further.
- Anonymous238 13y agoHow is this a good thing? You want users to visit a promo page, where they're forced to retweet the content before getting access? This sounds awfully familiar to those sites that ask you to share a referral link with 10 friends, or complete a survey before receiving a free gift that doesn't exist. Also reminds me of the days of browsing warez online. Click these three links to vote for us on Top 100 sites, then you'll get access to the file. They're just taking people hostage and encouraging spam on social networks.
- k-mcgrady 13y agoIt could be useful if done right. >> "before receiving a free gift that doesn't exist" Presumably if this was done by someone like Coca-Cola you would receive something for sharing the page. The spam problem could be improved by asking them to tweet their own content + link rather than a predefined message. e.g. Tweet your favourite thing about [brand] and get [reward]. And the tweet would be [your message] + link. These techniques could be used in interesting ways - most people just don't bother. >> "You want users to visit a promo page, where they're forced to retweet the content before getting access?" Also if the user is getting something of value I don't see the problem with asking them to do something to get it. They aren't being forced, they are being given a choice. Do this thing and get rewarded. Don't do it and life goes on.
- Anonymous238 13y agoYou're basically buying tweets at that point, and I'm completely against the concept. I go the exact opposite route with my community and promise users they'll never have to jump through a single hoop. In return, I get a lot of respect and loyal members. People know when you're trying to use them. It leaves a bad taste in their mouth, and they don't forget. A good reputation is better than a few thousand likes or tweets.
- Bjoern 13y agoJust saw it at <1000.. http://imgur.com/6bpnSQl http://imgur.com/6bpnSQl
- ArekDymalski 13y agoThis could become a bit more useful if you could add clickable links in the message. Or other files (like PDF) instead of an image. Or if it worked in the opposite direction - "tweet to decrease the number of available views". Why? To create some kind of scarcity, if the content is really valuable.
- biot 13y agoKind of like a Zynga game. At a certain point, you can't continue unless you spam your friends.
- informatimago 13y agozut, we could still make it appear back with a tweet. I hoped to make it disappear for good. But the conclusion is that it is easier to click reload twenty times than to tweet a single message.
- hnriot 13y agoAnyone read the barcode yet?
- ohashi 13y agoKind of like http://securesha.re http://securesha.re but less security, more social.
- nickbyfleet 13y agoIt is done!
- sahrizv 13y agoThanks for the combined efforts of HNers to make it disappear :-)
- wavesounds 13y agoI wonder how adding a link to who "sponsored" the content your viewing (if available) would change things. It's interesting how a tweets are now currency.
- kousuke 13y agoIs It true?
- fuckyou100 13y agoshit
- qianyang 13y agocreative idea
- pkdog 13y ago哈哈哈