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lolz.ws and lulz.ws Are Shutting Down on August 9
I have decided to shut down my URL shortening sites, lolz.ws and lulz.ws, on August 9.
Here are some of the reasons why I have come to this decision:
- The lack of traffic on these sites.
- Most URLs were created by spammers.
- lolz.ws was in the jwSpamSpy spam list for which reasons I do not know, causing it to be blocked by some web filters.
- No email has ever been sent from this domain since the day I registered it.
- It has since been taken out of the spam list as I requested but some filters still block the domain.
- lolz.ws was once blocked for pornography.
- The fact that there are many other URL shortening sites out there.
How to Revert Your SVN Repository on Assembla
There is no simple way to revert your repository to a previous revision on Assembla. However, a reversion is possible by following these steps.
First, export the SVN repository in your space. This can be done under the Import/Export section of your repository. It’ll take a minute for the dump to be created. Once that has completed, download the repository dump.
Then, extract the contents of the ZIP file to a temporary directory, then run the following commands in the temporary directory:
iPrism is Blocking lolz.ws for Pornography?
So today I have discovered that lolz.ws is on the filter list on iPrism for pornography/nudity.
Now the last time I checked, lolz.ws has no sort of pornography or nudity which makes this baffling to me. It is simply a service to make short URLs similar to bit.ly and TinyURL.
I have had issues with this domain before. The domain was in the jwSpamSpy spam domain blacklist a few months ago for some odd reason. Since the domain was in there some other web content filters had been blocking the site. I was able to get the blacklist removed for the domain though.
lolz.ws / lulz.ws Now Live
These two sites, lolz.ws and lulz.ws, are now live as URL Shortening sites.
You can now create URLs like for example:
Enjoy, lulz.
Create an IM Protocol?
Recently, I have been thinking about creating my own IM protocol. Mainly due to the fact that I think there should be another alternative in a lightweight client that supports every OS (using Java).
However, I think this wouldn’t be that worth of a write. This is because there are already written alternatives out there. For example, there’s XMPP (or Jabber), Skype, and Google Talk (Jabber). Yet, people do not use these are much. This could possibly be that they are not as popular as AIM or MSN. Also, there is already alternative clients that support multiple protocols, such as Pidgin (no ads), and Disgby.