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Re:Show HN: Hoist – Zapier for Developers (scripting done in... by charlieegan3 on Monday October 12, 2015 @03:22PM (#10376485)
I added Twitter, clicking the expand arrow to the right of twitter in 'Your Connectors' opens a new blank tab. (Firefox)

This looks cool though.

Re:Show HN: Hoist – Zapier for Developers (scripting done in... by mejamiewilson on Monday October 12, 2015 @03:30PM (#10376527)
Thanks for the feedback! I'll check it out now.
Re:Show HN: Hoist – Zapier for Developers (scripting done in... by nikolay on Monday October 12, 2015 @05:36PM (#10377086)
Why do you autopick user slug to be "<first-name><last-name><user-id>"?!
Re:Show HN: Hoist – Zapier for Developers (scripting done in... by buildmaster on Monday October 12, 2015 @05:49PM (#10377146)
it's not user id but actually just a random number. it's unrelated to your ID (which are actually more complex than just integers). The random number is there just to ensure we don't get collisions on slugs.
Re:Show HN: Hoist – Zapier for Developers (scripting done in... by nikolay on Monday October 12, 2015 @07:18PM (#10377444)
This is a pretty bad practice. You should use hashids [0] for this, instead!

[0] http://hashids.org/

Re:Show HN: Hoist – Zapier for Developers (scripting done in... by buildmaster on Monday October 12, 2015 @08:59PM (#10377835)
I should also add that we don't use the URL for any kind of security/lookup. we rely on other information for that. as such the aim is to give readable canonical urls to your application, much like most apps use a /{username} slug
Re:Show HN: Hoist – Zapier for Developers (scripting done in... by buildmaster on Monday October 12, 2015 @08:57PM (#10377829)
thanks for the link, I agree it's bad practice if there's any kind of lookup/security based on the slug. We have a few other mitigations against looking up anything security wise from the slug itself. but will take it into consideration as I agree it increases guess-ability of the slugs and could leave us open in future.
Re:Show HN: Hoist – Zapier for Developers (scripting done in... by nikolay on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @02:59PM (#10388617)
It's just an eyesore. If I see some random ID, I won't be bothered, but to see my name with some suffix to it - it's ugly and not a common practice anyway. There are better ways to generate unique IDs and hashids make them pretty short as well (shorter than their numerical counterparts, I mean).
Re:Show HN: Hoist – Zapier for Developers (scripting done in... by meturtle on Monday October 12, 2015 @05:07PM (#10376965)
It wiped my database clean?? WHY?? WHY??
Re:Show HN: Hoist – Zapier for Developers (scripting done in... by buildmaster on Monday October 12, 2015 @05:50PM (#10377152)
I'm not sure what you mean by "your database" and what was wiped clean?
Re:Show HN: Hoist – Zapier for Developers (scripting done in... by buildmaster on Monday October 12, 2015 @05:54PM (#10377172)
also you can get hold of us in app using the intercom speech bubble in the bottom right of the app. That way we can track back to your user account and see what's up.