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Comment · 10 years ago
Just tried it out and looks pretty good, nice work!

My business account is on Office 365 and the emails that come in from the system go into my Junk folder. I took a quick look at the headers and didn't notice anything obvious. Perhaps the body is to short and with the link it looks suspicious??

Other than that, I got 2 email notifications that the email is available and then another 2 emails with the success after the signature.

Comment · 11 years ago
Not compatible with iPhone 5, is it that resource intensive?
Comment · 12 years ago
IMO you should lean towards whatever makes you feel productive. There is nothing more self-motivating than being able to build something even if it's just for yourself. No matter what technology you use, you will come up against hurdles, so how does the documentation and community help out? These are much more important than licensing.

As for licensing MS technology, I highly recommend the Bizspark program. You can register a company for $50 at Registres des Entreprises and that's all you need. You will get free licenses for 3 years that you get to keep plus a whole bunch of Azure discounts. BTW, the licensing of Windows and VS are pretty much negligible in any business. SQL server on the other hand is cost prohibitive, but that is where you can use PostgreSQL.

MS is slowly changing, adopting more and more open source, github, mono. I think they are transforming their business from selling licenses to subscriptions (like Office).

Comment · 12 years ago
afraid.org is a good alternative.
Comment · 13 years ago
How do you plan on supporting businesses, if that is possible at this point?
Comment · 13 years ago
Yeah me too. I switched to Netvibes last week and it's just as good for me.
Comment · 13 years ago
Comment · 14 years ago
I don't know the financial deal that is in place, but I don't see how it impacts the affiliation.

From my perspective the accounts are not shared, so you needed to register there to create an account. We don't share databases. Also, it is not our company and operates completely independent from us. This is what I meant by not affiliated. Hope that clears it up.

Comment · 14 years ago
The 3rd party sells their service, which is web-based chat application, to any company. Think of it as a company that offers hosted forums (SaaS model), but chats instead of forums. It allowed Youporn to offer a chat service to users, without us having to develop and maintain it. Again this decision was done before we took over.

Using chat.youporn.com is not that different than using ypchat.com, personally I would have preferred the latter for obvious reasons.

Comment · 14 years ago
No I wasn't, our company had no involvement with YouPorn at that time.

We spoke to the owners about the issue and they are really some of the nicest people we've met. They really did not have malicious intentions.

That issue brought the privacy flaw to the forefront, and certainly the adult industry pushes those limits. We always strive to respect industry best practices regarding privacy, especially around cookie handling. We constantly review privacy policies around the world.

Comment · 14 years ago
Sure no problem. You can reach me at: pstatho at gmail
Comment · 14 years ago
Yes we control the DNS, since it's a subdomain. That is the new IP address of the official website.
Comment · 14 years ago
Hashing algorithms are not standardize across our network of sites yet. We use various methodology depending on what allows us to move fast and secure. You would be surprised to see the amount of moving parts there are.

We are currently in very close discussions with the 3rd party. In our official statement we purposely did not name them, we don't want to throw them under the bus. Of course we are reviewing all obligations.

We do deal with multiple security firms, and we regularly do security audits (both white and black box audits). We also deal with PCI, because we have paying sites as well, like Brazzers.

We can talk about the industry in general another time, but obviously we believe all types of sites can co-exist.

Comment · 14 years ago
Yes we are identifying which ones are affected. Due to changes over the years of how account information was handled, we want to be extra sure we are identifying the proper accounts, if any.
Comment · 14 years ago
I suppose at some point the old owners did want to make that association. That deal was in place since 2008, we've been managing it for less than a year now.

We've been focusing on the rewrite of the main site and are now cleaning up all the secondary dependencies.

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