Show HN: We open-sourced our anime discovery application

Re:Show HN: We open-sourced our anime discovery application by sparkie on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @03:50PM (#7906571)

Not updating a website people use regularly is not a bad thing - people are used to the UI, and changing shit only ruins the experience when people need to re-learn how to use the damn thing.

Also, it's not like MAL is "not updated", since it constantly has new content added - much of it user contributed, but those contributions get locked up behind a server, and we don't have access to it except through the website itself.

I don't suppose you would be offering the ability to query data, which will inevitably be user-contributed?

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Re:Show HN: We open-sourced our anime discovery application by PLejeck on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @03:58PM (#7906623)

Hummingbird already offers an API through Mashape, which is infinitely more thorough than any competitor's.

Additionally, MAL has lots of minor bugs, and how can you trust a site that hasn't been maintained in 5 years to store your password correctly? 2009 was a scary place.

This is pure speculation, but I wouldn't be surprised if MAL is storing passwords as MD5+salt. They do just email it to you in plaintext when you register.

And recovery is a 6 digit pin, which is totally plenty of entropy.

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Re:Show HN: We open-sourced our anime discovery application by shaldengeki on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @03:13AM (#7908878)

I can confirm that at least as of 2012 or so they were storing passwords as a salted md5 hash. I did point out to a staff member that this was not a good idea and was brushed off, so I assume this hasn't changed since then.

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Re:Show HN: We open-sourced our anime discovery application by jhenkens on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @05:08PM (#7907010)

You register and login over HTTP. I would bet they just store it in plaintext. But does it really matter with the first piece of information, how they store your password?

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Re:Show HN: We open-sourced our anime discovery application by mijoharas on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @06:19PM (#7907392)

ughhhh. I find it so hard to understand that this is still a thing that happens on the internet nowadays.

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