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Several times a day, actually! I'm on twitter, and I often bitch about the finer things about my dayjob (software development), usually accompanied by screenshots... So it's very handy indeed!


I usually use Gyazo but I always have to upload to ezgif to downsize the gif, then copy-paste that to imgur. It's a PITA doing this several times a day. Will give this a go!


Whoa! This is incredible! Great job mate!


Hi, I'm @hmemcpy, @omervk's partner in crim^H^H^Hplaintextoffending :)

One of Such Volunteers (wow!) made a Chrome Extension that scrapes addresses from PTO and shows you a red banner if you're on a site that's featured PTO!

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/plain-text-offende...


Apparently the list of offending sites is hardcoded in the extension ( https://github.com/klinskyc/PTOAlert/blob/master/sites.json ) and the extension is not updated to reflect changes on the sites.


I suppose the only downside is the list of reformed sites using improved password security appears to rely on user verification and submission, so the list may not always be up to date - but it's certainly better than not knowing at all. Kudos to the extension maker.


Yeah... We're working on a "proper" site (with proper API). It will be up soon, but it's taking its time :(


Sorry for the late reply.

That's an interesting question - would a unit test prevent this error? To answer this, let's consider what happened: the database didn't respond in an appropriate way, and probably returned an error. I'm not exactly sure what exact error was displayed, but WordPress has caught this situation, and handled it the best it could - displaying a proper error. I would write a unit test for this exact scenario - using a fake (mock) object, simulate the database timeout, and make sure that the error was caught and handled appropriately. Other then that there's no real other way to gracefully recover.


Sorry, my hosting is probably not... used to any traffic :) Should be ok now...


It's already planned :) Stay tuned!


Better add rel="nofollow" too. Or do you want to vouch for all these pages? If your PR rises, expect people to create plain-text systems just to get a dofollow link.

Also, do you check each and every service you put up? Or do you trust the random internet visitor to always do the right thing? Are you ready for and ok with any collateral damage?


Just make a tumblr page for it :) Seriously, not including setting up a domain it takes about 15 minutes...


>not including setting up a domain it takes about 15 minutes...

Which, coincidentally, is about the same amount of time as you can expect your tumblr page to be up every month ;)


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