Show HN: Hush, an "incognito mode for Facebook"

by darora • 14 years ago

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redDragon• 14 years ago

pretty cool idea :D !

I'm pretty sure the web is already full of anonymous forums where you don't have to give up your identity by signing in with Facebook.

true_religion• 14 years ago

True, but this is for people who want to be anonymous on facebook.

olenhad4• 14 years ago

The idea is, that you want to make statements, but you want people you know to hear them as well. That's why we use facebook's social graph. :)

darora6• 14 years ago

True. Our reasons for using Facebook were twofold-

* It enables you to talk to your FB friends--a group whose opinion that you probably care about & respect--anonymously, so that they don't have to hold back or sugarcoat things.

* It enables us to ensure a reasonably decent quality on the service, by [hopefully] avoiding too many bots or trolls.

thesleeper• 14 years ago

i say Yes.

pbear3• 14 years ago

Super awesome! Finally I can express my opinions without offending sponsors and the like.

pbear3• 14 years ago

Awesome idea! Now I can make honest comments and opinions that won't offend the wrong people!

davebees• 14 years ago

Did you just make two separate comments praising this, both within two minutes of registering?

instakill2• 14 years ago

There look to be a lot of new accounts all praising this.

olenhad4• 14 years ago

My suspicion is that he got too used to hush...

testing12341234• 14 years ago

Possibly some astroturfing to get this pushed to the front page.

Edit: Which has apparently worked.

pbear3• 14 years ago

Sorry about that. I'm new to this and it looked like my first posting did not get through so I posted again. My bad.

slig• 14 years ago

By logging with fb, your app will have at least my user id and email. Any data breach on your side and all the "anonymous" posts are not so anonymous anymore.

olenhad4• 14 years ago

We can assure you from our side, that the way the app is structured, no part aside from login, uses facebook's user ids. We've tried to be very strict about that.

synor2• 14 years ago

How do you filter my "own" posts without correlating my Facebook id with a post-author id?

kghose2• 14 years ago

I'm sorry, it's a bit early in the morning for me. I browsed the 'about' page and could not understand what the application DOES. I am not about to log into facebook through some application somebody put up randomly on the internet just yet, simply to see for myself. So, to get me started what does this application do? Thanks!

darora6• 14 years ago

Well, quite simply, you can anonymously[1] discuss things with your Facebook friends (or the whole world, if you'd like).

[1]: That is, apart from the login and pulling in your list of friends so as to populate your "Friends' feed", we don't use Facebook IDs or names at all.

kghose2• 14 years ago

Thanks. What is the identity that shows up on the friend's feed? Is it a constant one so that it can be blocked if needed? If one of your friends goes 'rogue' and starts to spam/harrass you through this will you have to systematically unfriend everyone till you find the culprit?

Why would you want to have an anonymous conversation on facebook anyway? Sorry, don't get it.

chinab91• 14 years ago

nice work!

sarhus2• 14 years ago

you should give the possibility to sign up without a facebook account.

darora6• 14 years ago

To be honest, without the facebook integration of being able to talk to _your friends_, there are-as has been pointed out-far too many anonymous forums already.

sarhus2• 14 years ago

And that's ok. But you'd like to test:

1) how many people would sign up without a facebook account? 2) how many of them could you "convert" and sign-in again with facebook? (saying something like "ok..now, how about you use your facebook account to [blabla] with your friends on facebook?

I'd say people are more willing to give it a try and see how it looks without passing facebook credentials first... That's just my hint..

Osmium• 14 years ago

What I'd really like is an extension for a Facebook "read-only" mode, so I can leave myself logged in without worrying about accidentally clicking a "like" button somewhere.

instakill2• 14 years ago

What's with the astro-turfing comments in this thread?

jklio• 14 years ago

This is the second time I've seen astro-turfing on HN in as many weeks. On the following thread there were hilariously bad (registered within the hour, first comment on the product "wow great!") fake accounts.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4682896

laurenceputra• 14 years ago

4chan with facebook login?

smutticus• 14 years ago

I use an incognito mode for Facebook. It's called not having a FB account and not allowing any javascript from their domains to run in my browser. Just quit FB if you care about your privacy.

Why go to such lengths to avoid being exploited by a service designed to exploit you? Just stop using it.

alisnic• 14 years ago

The contrast and font size of this site are a total disaster, my eyes are bleeding.

fudged71• 14 years ago

Most people won't understand what "Flavoured Markdown" means.

dariuscheung• 14 years ago

now we can all bitch about that friend together digitally.

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