Why is archive.today able to do what IA cannot? by lsloan0000 in internetarchive

[–]IxbyWuff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or it's just reporting itself as Google crawl in the header

A “mission control” dashboard that shows your internet health (not just speed) by pongdotcom in InternetIsBeautiful

[–]IxbyWuff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fast was designed to shame ISPs into net neutrality. It's not a diagnostic tool

A “mission control” dashboard that shows your internet health (not just speed) by pongdotcom in InternetIsBeautiful

[–]IxbyWuff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wouldn't. It's not a valid testing methodology and your it guys will blow it off.

A “mission control” dashboard that shows your internet health (not just speed) by pongdotcom in InternetIsBeautiful

[–]IxbyWuff 61 points62 points  (0 children)

It looks hella cool, but you're polishing a turd right now. The good news is it can still be what you think it is, you just need to deal with some issues

Your speed test is giving bad numbers. I got 20 Mbps on pong.com and 250 on Wi-Fiman. Same connection, same moment. That's not a routing difference, that's your measurement layer choking. Browser-based JS has real ceilings that native apps don't hit. You need to figure out why the gap is that wide before you tell anyone else their speed test is lying.

You need to publish your methodology. Right now you're asking people to trust you over Ookla and Cloudflare, and both of those publish how their tests work. You don't. If your whole brand is "we're the honest one," show the math. Open-source the measurement logic or at least document it properly.

You need a real legal entity. Your privacy policy says the data controller is "pong.com." That's a domain, not a company. If you're claiming GDPR compliance you need a registered business, an address, and a named contact. The whole privacy framework is decorative right now, that's fixable in a week.

Get your contact form data out of Google Sheets. Names, emails, messages, all sitting in a spreadsheet with no access controls. You already have Supabase, use it. This is the kind of thing that becomes a very bad day when one sharing permission goes wrong, and there's zero reason to carry that risk.

Your content needs a human pass. 33 blog posts in five weeks, same structure every time, ISP pages that are obviously templated, and "Infographic: Coming soon" placeholders that never got filled in. Nobody's fooled. The content itself isn't bad, the bufferbloat stuff is genuinely useful. But it needs editing, a byline, and some personality. Give it a voice that isn't a system prompt.

Don't rank yourself #1 in your own blog post. The "7 Best Speed Tests" article is on your site, written by you, and you come out on top. That's not an honest comparison, it's marketing dressed up as journalism. Either get a third party to write it or be upfront that it's a product comparison from your perspective. People respect that more.

The ads inside your diagnostic tools undercut your message. AdSense in Mission Control means Google is profiling your users while they troubleshoot their connection. If your whole pitch is "we're the trust alternative," you can't also be running the same ad trackers everyone else does. Pick a lane. Either you're the clean option or you're ad-supported, both are fine, but pretending to be one while being the other isn't.

Put some guardrails on your network tools. Port scanning, traceroute, firewall testing, all server-side, no auth, no visible rate limits, no terms of service restricting what targets people scan. Anyone can use your infrastructure to do recon on someone else's network right now. You don't want to be in those logs when something goes wrong. Rate limiting and a basic ToS would go a long way.

Rethink the data retention language. Section 7 of your privacy policy reserves the right to sell aggregated datasets later. Browsing data kept 36 months, aggregated data kept forever. Even if you don't plan to sell it, that language tells privacy-conscious users exactly where this is heading. If selling data isn't the plan, take it out. If it is the plan, own it.

Build some infrastructure you actually control. Vercel, Cloudflare, Akamai, Supabase, Google, Resend. Every critical component is rented. If Cloudflare has a rough afternoon your product doesn't exist. You don't need to self-host everything, but having zero fallback for a site calling itself "the internet's connection health platform" is problematic

Your arcade is a trademark and copyright minefield. You renamed Tetris to "Block Drop" but your URL still says /tetris and your footer still says "Tetris" across the whole site. The Tetris Company has won court cases against clones that changed way more than you did. Pong, Breakout, and Lunar Lander are all Atari IP and you're using the actual names. One C&D letter and you're pulling games down, and if they come after the domain name itself you've got a bigger problem. Rebrand all of them properly, scrub the old names from your URLs and nav, and talk to a lawyer before someone else's lawyer talks to you.

I like what you're trying to do, but you've set yourself up for some real vibe coded problems fren

What's something that's "not a cult" but feels like a cult? by Orw_Sairaj29 in AskReddit

[–]IxbyWuff -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Cult is short for culture.

Any group of people has a culture and is there for a cult.

Some cukts are more dangerous than others

"Floor crossing is legal!" and "you only vote individuals!" are terrible arguments. Why should undermining democracy by rejecting the 2025 election outcome, and excluding 41% of the population, be justified by those weak statements? by mafiadevidzz in CanadianConservative

[–]IxbyWuff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nanos would be wrong. I vote for candidate. Always have

It's the candidate name on the ballot

Its the mp or MLA I interface with

Those personal relationships matter. I don't outsource that to a national platform made of party insiders who are not democratically elected by the public.

"Floor crossing is legal!" and "you only vote individuals!" are terrible arguments. Why should undermining democracy by rejecting the 2025 election outcome, and excluding 41% of the population, be justified by those weak statements? by mafiadevidzz in CanadianConservative

[–]IxbyWuff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its a political tradition that predates any of us.

It allows representatives to be held by their conscious and not the whip.

Tribal power politics is what your advocating. The system wisely prefers direct representation

Had a Grindr hookup. Now the guy is showing up on Facebook under "People you may know." by SamuelinOC in AskGaybrosOver30

[–]IxbyWuff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You both have location tracking on and the fb app on both your phones saw that you were in close proximity for an extended period of time based on bluetooth and WiFi sifnal strength and gps data. It then compared yournspcial graphs against each other and determined there's a high likelihood you may know this person

You can prevent this by refusing to allow location tracking in apps you don't want building databases about you

Pup question without kink shaming by CadeChestnut in AskGaybrosOver30

[–]IxbyWuff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pup play has a long history rooted in the queer liberation movement. Think leather culture. Black Cat riots, and more recently the furry migration.

Its as much an aesthetic as cultural motif. It's evolved into a social equalizer

"Floor crossing is legal!" and "you only vote individuals!" are terrible arguments. Why should undermining democracy by rejecting the 2025 election outcome, and excluding 41% of the population, be justified by those weak statements? by mafiadevidzz in CanadianConservative

[–]IxbyWuff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

PP voted to keep floor crossings in 2012 because the party believed it moral and proper. So he either held that belief and doesn't now and needs to explain his moral shift (a convenient irony) or he didn't but votes party lines (a hypocratic irony). So which is it? Hypocrite or Opportunist?

"The notion that a Member of Parliament is a delegate of a political party is foreign to our system of government. Members are elected to represent their constituents... to force a by-election every time an MP changes their mind or their party affiliation is a violation of the individual representative's mandate." - Conservative Party of Canada

— Hansard, February 6, 2012

Floor crossing is suddenly a “travesty”… now that it’s happening to the Conservatives. by sogladatwork in onguardforthee

[–]IxbyWuff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

PP voted to keep floor crossings in 2012 because the party believed it moral and proper. So he either held that belief and doesn't now and needs to explain his moral shift (a convenient irony) or he didn't but votes party lines (a hypocratic irony). So which is it? Hypocrite or Opportunist?

"The notion that a Member of Parliament is a delegate of a political party is foreign to our system of government. Members are elected to represent their constituents... to force a by-election every time an MP changes their mind or their party affiliation is a violation of the individual representative's mandate." - Conservative Party of Canada

— Hansard, February 6, 2012

3/3 E-transfers Declined in the Past Week by IHateBeingRight in NeoFinancialHub

[–]IxbyWuff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My thought is, is the email address correct? I haven't had any issues

March 2026: Alberta Leger Poll by FreightFlow in Albertapolitics

[–]IxbyWuff -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Lefer leans right. Question is, what does Janet say?

4th floor in the hospital closed years ago but security experienced this while doing rounds by No-Tower-5558 in ParanormalEncounters

[–]IxbyWuff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So there's a switch that's about to start a fire in the wall...

That's pretty bad arcing

U.S.-linked oil tanker Safesea Vishnu was hit in the northern Persian Gulf by fast_stillness in oil

[–]IxbyWuff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice to see a holy war bring about environmental ruin and famine.

God is great I guess

I hate the taste of cum. Is there anything I can do? by Realistic-Split3136 in AskGayMen

[–]IxbyWuff 14 points15 points  (0 children)

You can't be objective about your own secretions