I use Mail for Good every week to send my email blast to 3.5 million people. It works fine and is stable.
We haven't made any big changes to it recently because it hasn't broken. There is definitely some maintenance we could do as far as updating libraries.
We're hoping to re-write parts of it to use AWS Lambda instead of a Linux server, so we can further simplify use of it for less-technical users (a lot of nonprofits don't have developers on staff).
Thanks for the heads-up on Twitter that someone submitted this to HN. Yes - we'd welcome your help improving the UI. We have a Gitter room: https://gitter.im/freecodecamp/mail-for-good and introduce yourself.
The FCC refuses to comment and all Verizon says is: "Mr. Nugyen (sic) is mistaken.”
They are buying time because they know that once they repeal the 2015 net neutrality protections, none of their crimes will technically be crimes anymore.
Gitter has been a huge part of freeCodeCamp's community since the beginning. Thousands of people have asked questions there, and most of them have gotten helpful answers quickly. This is thanks to the experienced developers who contribute their time and expertise in there.
Like IRC, it's a great platform to ask and answer questions on. Find the right rooms and talk to the right people.
This is explored in Tim Wu's book, which I strongly recommend reading. "The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires": http://amzn.to/2cjtFDH
Author here. I just realized someone had submitted this to HN. I spent a lot of time researching and writing this article, and am excited to read any feedback you may have.
Also, here's how you can contact the FCC directly:
1-888-225-5322
press 1, then 4, then 2, then 0
say that you wish to file comments concerning the FCC Chairman’s plan to end net neutrality
It's my understanding that the FCC Chairman intends to reverse net neutrality rules and put big Internet Service Providers in charge of the internet. I am firmly against this action. I believe that these ISPs will operate solely in their own interests and not in the interests of what is best for the American public. In the past 10 years, broadband companies have been guilty of: deliberately throttling internet traffic, squeezing customers with arbitrary data caps, misleading consumers about the meaning of “unlimited” internet, giving privileged treatment to companies they own, strong-arming cities to prevent them from giving their residents high-speed internet, and avoiding real competition at all costs. Consumers, small businesses, and all Americans deserve an open internet. So to restate my position: I am against the chairman's plan to reverse the net neutrality rules. I believe doing so will destroy a vital engine for innovation, growth, and communication.
Back in 2011, several ISPs were caught red-handed working with a company called Paxfire to hijack their customers’ search queries to Bing, Yahoo!, and Google. Here’s how it worked.
When you entered a search term in your browser’s search box or URL bar, your ISP directed that query to Paxfire instead of to an actual search engine. Paxfire then checked what you were searching for to see if it matched a list of companies that had paid them for more traffic. If your query matched one of these brands (e.g. you had typed in “apple”, “dell”, or “wsj”, to name a few) then Paxfire would send you directly to that company’s website instead of sending you to a search engine and showing you all the search results (which is what you’d normally expect). The company would then presumably give Paxfire some money, and Paxfire would presumably give your ISP some money.
In other words, ISPs were hijacking their customers’ search queries and redirecting them to a place customers hadn’t asked for, all while pocketing a little cash on the side. Oh, and the ISPs in question hadn’t bothered to tell their customers they’d be sending their search traffic to a third party that might record some of it.
I love Medium and I hope it succeeds. It sounds like their headcount was substantially higher than it needed to be and that this layoff was the right move.
I'm a former English teacher and school director, and I created FreeCodeCamp.com two years ago specifically to help people transition into web development as a career. We have a large community of career-changers, more than 5,000 of whom have now gotten their first developer job.
Thanks for the clarification on TOR. I guess I should change "virtually impossible" to something more moderate like "extremely difficult" as colluding with a network to gain access to the network.
How reliable would this approach be if, say, 100x the number of people who currently use TOR start using it?
My main takeaway from Yahoo's decline is that you should promote leadership from within. Hiring CEOs from the professional CEO circuit probably killed Yahoo.
We haven't made any big changes to it recently because it hasn't broken. There is definitely some maintenance we could do as far as updating libraries.
We're hoping to re-write parts of it to use AWS Lambda instead of a Linux server, so we can further simplify use of it for less-technical users (a lot of nonprofits don't have developers on staff).