[HN Gopher] The Exclusive Website
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The Exclusive Website
Author : zuhayeer
Score : 63 points
Date : 2021-02-08 20:57 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (exclusive.website)
(TXT) w3m dump (exclusive.website)
| recursivedoubts wrote:
| theory: it never lets you in
|
| the experience of wanting to get in is the experience
| Xevi wrote:
| It's an old website. I got in last time I tried about two years
| ago.
|
| If I remember correctly you see a message from the person who
| got in before you, and then you write a message for the next
| one in line.
| recursivedoubts wrote:
| that's exactly what I would expect someone in on the art
| project to say
| fireball_blaze wrote:
| It's about the friends we made along the way?
| owl57 wrote:
| At first it showed me a 500 error. This time I'm unsure if it is
| the usual HN effect or a variation of the joke.
| mfkp wrote:
| I was up to #97 in line, then it pushed me back to #392... I
| demand a refund.
| whymauri wrote:
| I'd like to talk to the manager >:(
|
| I don't think it ever lets you in, haha.
| gorkish wrote:
| It's buggy as shit. If you lose the websocket for any reason it
| falls back to a polling mode which appears to be completely
| broken. I know it's just for fun, but as someone who has
| written a very robust distributed FIFO queue before, this
| implementation ... bothers me.
| [deleted]
| insickness wrote:
| Look, they don't let just anybody into the website. It's
| exclusive.
| elliekelly wrote:
| OP needs a "grease the bouncer" button and an "upload selfie"
| button to let wealthy and attractive people skip the line.
| whoomp12342 wrote:
| its like trying to get into the roxbury.
| [deleted]
| grishka wrote:
| Hmmmmmmm. We know what you're thinking...
| and yes, you really can get into the website.
| dt3ft wrote:
| Getting 500, internal (exclusive?) server error...
| tcgv wrote:
| I'm guessing it's due to HN's hug of death
| ffpip wrote:
| > The last entry into the website was Tuesday, February 9 2021
| 2:46AM
|
| Dear Random HN person please get off the site. It's been 10 mins
| now.
| jaytaylor wrote:
| Reminds me of the BBS days, where for the good sites it was
| necessary to keep re-dialing until you got through!
|
| I never did make it into L0pht.
| themodelplumber wrote:
| Funny! I remember getting a taste of a few really good ones, in
| my case some of the PNW high-graphics BBSes in '95 or so, and
| then not being able to get through again for days...a
| frustrating experience. Same with download quotas for new
| users. :-)
| jcoletti wrote:
| Waiting music reminds me of the hotel lobby in Leisure Suit Larry
| 6.
| quercusa wrote:
| I was thinking the elevator scene at the end of The Blues
| Brothers.
| whymauri wrote:
| I love this! Reminds me of when people just made random tiny
| websites for fun.
|
| Uh, my number keeps going up but I'm not leaving the tab :(
|
| Edit: somehow I became the first person in the queue
| https://i.redd.it/r9b2dz5dnbg61.png
|
| I left to give the next person the slot :P
| sharkweek wrote:
| There was a website I used to love sending people to when I was
| in middle school (crashme dot com, just a parked domain now).
|
| It had this bomb timer-like countdown clock and a big warning
| that it would destroy your computer if it reached zero. Totally
| pointless, but was always fun back before I really understood
| too much about this brave new world of internet.
| nicoburns wrote:
| It's the number of people in the queue that counts up, not your
| place in the queue.
| ivraatiems wrote:
| Quick feedback: I had to press "play sound" twice before it
| muted, because of autoplay.
|
| This is a fun experiment. Can't wait to get in.
|
| Edit: Okay, the number keeps jumping around... clearly something
| fishy going on here. Maybe it's only sessions that are currently
| connected that are included? ;)
| spazx wrote:
| Suddenly, the number of people in front of me started going UP.
| markdown wrote:
| Was just a blank page for me. Had to refresh to see anything...
| and find out I was in a queue.
| atdixon wrote:
| To Webmaster: How much $$ to jump first in line?
| ravenstine wrote:
| I'm getting a 500 internal server error.
|
| It's kind of funny how these contemporary webpages crash under
| the load of HN, but the few times we link to sites from 1996 they
| somehow manage to remain online. The other day I remember people
| trying to link to the pages with the oldest images they could
| find and I'm pretty sure none of the pages suffered from the hug
| of death.
| eat_veggies wrote:
| I guess this is easier to hug to death since it's stateful and
| (based on other comments) opens a websocket per user
| hypertele-Xii wrote:
| You missed the joke. It's trying to be exclusive, so it gives a
| 500 error to all visitors the first time they come. Refresh,
| and you'll... almost get in.
| smitty1e wrote:
| Recalls uselessaccount.com
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/*/uselessaccount.com
|
| Which has apparently been hijacked by something blog-like.
| [deleted]
| srl wrote:
| In firefox, trying to 'view source' yields the source for a 500
| internal server error.
|
| Does that mean that firefox makes a different request when I
| click "view source"? As in, from the server logs, someone could
| in principle discover whether a request was created by clicking
| "view source"?
|
| Also, like everybody else, I'm here to report that the counter
| does _not_ decrease monotonically :(
| lights0123 wrote:
| But only the first time. Reloading the page or clicking "View
| source" again made it appear for me. Of course, it's possible
| that was just random chance like others experienced:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26070729
| valentinvieriu wrote:
| I've opened it on 2 devices and showed 2 different numbers. So
| either the counter is fake, or there is a load balancer issue :)
| grishka wrote:
| It definitely is not fake, it updates through a websocket.
| 101008 wrote:
| Is it using any kind of IP or something like that to recognize
| the place in queue? I was around 100, I pasted the link on a
| Whatsapp conversation to share it (I guess it did a request to
| get a preview), and when I came back to the tab I was last in the
| queue.
| theginger wrote:
| I've lost my place quite a few times, i can't tell if it is by
| design due to navigating away or the websocket flaking out
| because of too many people.
| greenshackle2 wrote:
| Definitely flaking out. I had the tab open on a monitor, it
| said I got disconnected then I got booted to the end of the
| queue.
| grishka wrote:
| It stores a UUID-looking string in localStorage and uses that
| to retrieve your position in the queue. At least that's what I
| gathered from looking at requests and trying to make sense of
| obfuscated JS.
| theginger wrote:
| i opened dev tools and lost my place in the queue :(
| werds wrote:
| my friend... developers are not allowed in
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