Pastebin for spoilers

http://spoilrs.co/236CEc5d9hkcq-uWDdvh-A

by startuphacker • 11 years ago

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Me and a couple friends do random programming challenges once a month. Last month we had to build an app in 30 minutes or less based on a randomly picked subject.

I got entertainment as the subject and decided to build a pastebin-like website for spoilers.

The idea is to enable users to be able share spoilers easily without the worry of someone accidentally clicking on the link. If you do accidentally click on a link, don't worry as you won't see the spoiler until you say "show me the spoiler".

I am not sure if there is any demand for this at all, but my friend suggested I put it online as it may be useful to others.

Let me know what you think, I know its super simple right now but if there is demand I can add more features.

Nadya2• 11 years ago

I was confused for a moment: http://spoilrs.co/posts/amGpfCV2JLGTlDBRKloP0g

Perhaps to make it Javascript-disabled-friendly there can be styles that are removed when the pop-up is dismissed (or that exist when javascript is disabled via <noscript> ?)

I'm also not sure there is a demand for this sort of thing. [spoiler] tags that require to be clicked/highlighted are hard to accidentally click/highlight and in scenarios I know a [spoiler] is used as a link to a pastebin, etc. User behavior I've seen is to middle click the link and view it later/after. Which requires the user to also switch to the tab.

It seems to be a bit of a redundant failsafe, in my honest opinion. But it looks nice and functions! :)

startuphacker2• 11 years ago

Thanks for reminding me to fix that! I just tweaked it so it tells you to enabled java-script in order to use the site now. I will come up with a proper fix later so it works without JS being needed at all.

I agree with on spoiler tags, I wasn't going to push it publicly at all, but my friend said there may be demand for sites that don't have a spoiler tag like facebook. He kind of insisted on pushing it out so we will see what happens.

thanks for taking a look :)

Nadya2• 11 years ago

but my friend said there may be demand for sites that don't have a spoiler tag like facebook.

That's a fair use case. Being one who doesn't use FB, it didn't even cross my mind.

Pastebin for spoilers

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