MediaCrush
Infrastructure
media hosting
SHOW HN2013
95points
57comments
#237of 1,739 in 2013
Top 14%of 2013 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
8 positive, 21 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 7 critical, out of 38 comments about the project. Thread score +0.05.
Execution: 2 for, 2 againstPrivacy: 1 for, 3 againstIdea: 1 for, 2 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Easy to run locally; good craftsmanship
From 1 comment
Stellar work. Your openness about everything is incredibly refreshing, and integration with RES was an awesome move. It's an easy choice to make the switch! I am seriously…
burntsushi on HN
Objections
Hashed IP storage is weak privacy protection
From 1 comment
"The only thing we store about you is your hashed IP address" The IPv4 address namespace is so small that brute-forcing hashes would be trivial, so this isn't an effective…
Titanous on HN
Google Analytics undermines privacy stance
From 1 comment
I want to like you, but for me using GA nullifies every nice thing you say in https://mediacru.sh/serious There is no excuse for not running your own: http://demo.piwik.org/ Also…
Nux on HN
Requests
Self-hosted analytics instead of Google Analytics
From 1 comment
Okay, I understand that using Google Analytics when we're so pro-privacy is a bit of a weird choice. We've realised that self-hosting our analytics might be a better choice. I've…
jdiez17 on HN
MP3 compression
From 1 comment
Hmm. Weird i tried this with two of the same MP3 files and it didn't change the file size & quality is the same? :/ Original: http://151.236.11.202/mp3/2.mp3 Converted:…
Zanely on HN
Questions
File size limit
From 1 comment
Maybe I'm blind, but what's the file size limit?
dombili on HN
Business model
From 1 comment
from what I've seen this is all free. which is ofcourse great. and open source too. But I wonder if you guys have a business model? I mean somebody has to pay for those servers…
aeon10 on HN
Alternatives named
Piwik
From 1 comment
I'd say it's substantially different from hosting your own Piwik, OWA, or even something like snowplow - where you could elect to avoid IP storage. That said, those all entail a…
imperialWicket on HN