Friends Domains

Consumer and social

social domain sharing

SHOW HN2012

Friends Domains

Tell us your best registered domain names that no one knows about

friendsdomains.com

#domain names#registered domains#domain sharing#twitter

42points
41comments
#561of 1,677 in 2012
Top 34%of 2012 by points

How HN took it

RoastedHalf or more of the comments are critical

4 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 18 critical, out of 29 comments about the project. Thread score -0.42.

Execution: 0 for, 8 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 5 againstIdea: 2 for, 2 againstDesign: 1 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 against

The thread, comment by comment

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Fun social idea, like texts from last night for domain names

    From 1 comment
    • Think of it like "texts from last night" for domain names. Our friends have great domain names like beerify.me, nerdharder.net, and unfriend.ly. We let you share the projects you…
      shapiro on HN
  • Twitter integration is nice

    From 1 comment

Objections

  • Tweets posts to Twitter without clear warning, privacy concern

    From 3 comments
    • Neat - but I didn't expect it to tweet my entry. I really wish you had mentioned that. Out of nowhere it looks like I'm spamming my friends with some domain I own.
      coderdude on HN
    • I'd like to double that. Also even if you uncheck the tweet checkbox it posts to your twitter stream.
      andreasklinger on HN
    • Appreciate it. I'll avoid the site. This is one reason I seldom log in with Twitter/Facebook. I just don't trust apps, and this is a good reason not to. Even if they authors try…
      e1ven on HN
  • Requires Twitter sign-in, excludes anonymous or non-Twitter users

    From 2 comments
    • I was going to post a domain, but when it made me authorize with Twitter, I stopped. I don't understand why you need identity for this project and why that identity is limited to…
      Bostwick on HN
    • I don't have a twitter account. Any other way to signup?
      WayneDB on HN
  • Site fails without JavaScript and renders badly

    From 2 comments
    • Site completely fails to load without Javascript, and only does a half-assed job of loading with JS enabled. No graceful degradation at all.
      Doches on HN
    • Yeah, I browse the web without JS and whitelist sites I use frequently. I wouldn't have commented if your site loaded fine with JS turned on, but even allowing local JS it still…
      Doches on HN
  • Load More button repeats entries

    From 3 comments
    • Interesting read. The Load More button fails on Chrome/Mac: it shows the entries I've already read, can scroll down for more but then it just keeps repeating itself.
      marquis on HN
    • Same on iPad.
      WiseWeasel on HN
    • I enjoyed reading the entries. When I keep choosing "Load More" I eventually get nothing but repeats. I can scroll up and see the same entries.
      genwin on HN
  • Posted domains missing from list, timestamps wrong

    From 3 comments
    • posted a domain but i don't see it in the list? :( edit: the timestamp on my entry on http://friendsdomains.com/istanb4u says '3 hours ago' but i just posted it...double sad face
      localhost3000 on HN
    • same thing happened to me when I posted my second domain: http://friendsdomains.com/bearwithclaws
      bearwithclaws on HN
    • Minor timezone glitch, just fixed.
      ges on HN

Requests

  • Make Twitter handle optional instead of required sign-in

    From 1 comment
    • So why not make the twitter handle an optional field for each entry? People could still use twitter to get in touch, and those who don't use twitter would not be excluded.
      Bostwick on HN
  • Allow anonymous entries or another signup method

    From 2 comments
    • I was going to post a domain, but when it made me authorize with Twitter, I stopped. I don't understand why you need identity for this project and why that identity is limited to…
      Bostwick on HN
    • I don't have a twitter account. Any other way to signup?
      WayneDB on HN
  • Make tweet checkbox off by default

    From 1 comment
    • We do have a line which shows what you're going to tweet and let's you uncheck the box so you don't post to twitter. Perhaps this should be off by default, but we are erring on…
      shapiro on HN

Questions

  • Why is Twitter identity required for this project

    From 1 comment
    • I was going to post a domain, but when it made me authorize with Twitter, I stopped. I don't understand why you need identity for this project and why that identity is limited to…
      Bostwick on HN

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