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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4996431

by lowglow • 14 years ago

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http://valleyanon.com/ -- A simple anonymous blogging platform for free speech online. I built it so that people can let their stories be known without fear.

lowglow5• 14 years ago

clickable: http://valleyanon.com/

streety• 14 years ago

For the login you ask for an email address. There are plenty of services providing disposable email addresses but I wonder if you need to ask for an email at all. Perhaps an 'Alias' field would be more in keeping with the ethos of the site.

lowglow5• 14 years ago

The email field will take any string. Only enter your email if you want access to alerts, updates, and recovery tools -- otherwise you can just use some random handle.

Pezmc• 14 years ago

http://valleyanon.com/p/2 oh dear...

lowglow5• 14 years ago

a(n) (un)fortunate side effect of anonymity online. :)

Chris_X2• 14 years ago

Your like/tweet counter is serving as negative social proof. Get rid of the counter until you build up some likes.

lowglow5• 14 years ago

done and thanks.

Chris_X2• 14 years ago

You could have left the buttons there, just without the counter.

Facebook doesn't let you do this easily, though.

nathan7• 14 years ago

I don't see a hidden service anywhere..

lowglow5• 14 years ago

Good call. I'll look into supporting this next. In the meanwhile I just assumed people could connect through a Tor exit node to post.

BigNuts2• 14 years ago

when you assume. you make mistakes

melpomene• 14 years ago

Nice project. Noted that my Ghostery script is blocking both facebook connect and Google Analytics. Even if TOR is used these services are able to easily fingerprint the browser and compare to their own databases (https://panopticlick.eff.org/).

It would be nice if these where opt-in.

BigNuts2• 14 years ago

this is not anonymous in any way. read: google analytics , ect

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