[HN Gopher] Website Will Self Destruct
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Website Will Self Destruct
Author : gostsamo
Score : 67 points
Date : 2022-05-14 15:27 UTC (7 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.thiswebsitewillselfdestruct.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.thiswebsitewillselfdestruct.com)
| Waterluvian wrote:
| I'm going to ask here because this is similar:
|
| I want to make a page with a button and a countdown timer. The
| button resets the timer. The timer is global: everyone sees and
| affects the same timer. Users don't need accounts. Anyone can
| just press the button.
|
| How would one implement the server portion of this cheaply and
| safely?
|
| It's like I want some server that just accepts a blank POST to
| reset time. And a GET to get the latest time. The client would
| GET the time every minute and sync the UI with that.
| dtgriscom wrote:
| Wasn't this done recently?
| nabaraz wrote:
| POST to server, server returns and sets a unique value cookie.
| kaycebasques wrote:
| What's most interesting to me is how emo so many of the messages
| are. There's nothing overt in the website instructions prompting
| people to be angsty. gostsamo says the website was popular at the
| start of the pandemic which I guess could explain the angst. But
| I wonder if there's something deeper going on here. Because
| doesn't this feel like the sentiment of the earlier web? Is there
| something in the website design and the anonymity that prompts
| people to be more angsty? Or is the world just overwhelmingly
| angsty and we never have an outlet for those emotions?
| 4gotunameagain wrote:
| Could it be an inherent bias of the sample of people visiting
| the website ?
|
| I wouldn't find it hard to believe that high internet usage
| could correlate with depression.
| wingerlang wrote:
| > I'll be gone soon, and that's okay. > Until then, let me know
| how you're doing. > It's been a rough few months. > Feeling
| down?
|
| I think the website is quite emo
| andai wrote:
| The name reminded me of a domain I registered as a teenager,
| everythingwilldestroyitself.net
|
| I _was_ pretty angsty at the time.
| kaycebasques wrote:
| Yeah on second read I don't know what the hell I was talking
| about. The website copy is super emo and is totally prompting
| everyone to be angsty.
|
| I want this exact same experience but without the angsty
| prompting.
| SemanticStrengh wrote:
| It was all so cute until
|
| > Today, I will commit suicide that I have planned for a long
| time,I don't want to live anymore. anyway I want you to forgive
| me TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF
|
| Then the next message:
|
| > Dear Person Who Wants to Die, At least take a song request
| first. Everyone, if you see this please copy it and add one song
| to the list, hopefully, a meaningful one. P. S. No prejudice
| hopefully, and I hope you won't die, I appreciate you. Paradise -
| BTS What makes you beautiful- One Direction (cringe ik) Washing
| Machine Heart - Mitski Freaks - Surf Curse Little Talks - Of
| Monsters and Men Muddy Waters -LP (live version) 3 Nights -
| Dominic Fike agoraphobia - autoheart Welcome to my life - Simple
| Plan This is Home - cavetown Honest- The Neighbourhood Welcome to
| the black parade - My Chemical Romance Day6 - chocolate Happy
| Party Train - Aqours My Alcoholic Friends - The Dresden Dolls
|
| Of them I approve Washing Machine Heart - Mitski I think music
| has this acute, potent and almost universal power of reminding
| someone he is a sentient being, which is the expression of pure
| meaning.
| gostsamo wrote:
| I browsed around 20 and didn't find anything that cringe. Lots
| of teenagers dealing with loneliness and a few spotify
| recommendations, so it is another datapoint to consider.
| yojo wrote:
| Reminiscent of Reddit's "The Button"
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Button_(Reddit)
|
| Which, incidentally, was conceived by the Wordle guy. Impressive
| cultural impact there.
| stardenburden wrote:
| Not just that, the worldle guy also invented r/place
| SemanticStrengh wrote:
| > I want to experience the high school romance.
| SemanticStrengh wrote:
| > Vaccines finally arrived in Brazil ... Bolsonaro said in an
| interview like this: "DESPITE the vaccine"
|
| This man is a genocide, help us
| 8jef wrote:
| Help yourself, please.
| [deleted]
| unnouinceput wrote:
| So all it takes is a 24 hour DDOS and it's gone? Or any
| connection to it will prolong its life?
| gostsamo wrote:
| The website was very popular at the start of the pandemic.
| Reminding HN of it due to a similar project on the front page.
| trts wrote:
| There was a Reply All episode about this website and its creator:
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| https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/xjh56nj
| jancsika wrote:
| Aw, mang-- I thought it would start the tragic process of parent
| elements removing all their children.
|
| Speaking of which-- can a Javascript script completely remove all
| traces of itself without navigating away from the page?
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