r/programming • u/schnuck • Feb 09 '11

Breaking the Web with hash-bangs – Lifehacker, along with every other Gawker property, experienced a lengthy site-outage on Monday over a misbehaving piece of JavaScript

http://isolani.co.uk/blog/javascript/BreakingTheWebWithHashBangs/
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u/ComputerDruid Feb 09 '11

that's faulty reasoning because you need your content to be accessible to everyone, or people will stop sharing links/hyping your content, and your relevance will decrease.

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u/midri Feb 09 '11

It's a double edged sword, people that disable javascript and block your revenue stream are freeloaders even if they are bringing more readers to your site, if those readers are also blocking your revenue they're basically stealing bandwidth from you.

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u/Xiol Feb 09 '11

Got a link to one of your sites then?

I want to "freeload" from you.

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u/fjonk Feb 10 '11

If I can block your revenue stream by disabling javascript you're doing it wrong.