The website says it is "not released yet" but the concept seems quite straightforward. It uses PhantomJS to render the complete page and return it to GoogleBot.
The only issue I could see with this are slow response times because Google penalizes sites for being "slow." But definitely something to keep an eye on and/or contribute to.
And yet so many sites are still not mobile friendly and even some of the ones that are do it all wrong.
- Please don't ask me to install your every time I visit your site on mobile (Yelp's experience on this is actually much better than average).
- Please do not automatically redirect me to the App Store.
- Please do provide all the content available on the desktop version otherwise I'm just going to have to go there anyway.
- When I click a Goole result for a page, I expect to land on that page or a mobile version of that page. Please do not send me to a mobile landing page where I can't get the info I originally wanted.
The demos are super slick and make it seem like a huge productivity saver. When I first looked at it, I had to dismiss it on the sole reason that it could not be crawled by Google and therefore not SEO friendly. However with Meteor 0.3.9 (back in August) that problem was solved.
What do you do when you're trying to explain a technical issue that can't be explained in 500 chars or requires code snippets? Maybe move to a different medium? A different email address?
A codepaste might work for snippets as long as it's not sensitive. You still might need a way to explain how to reproduce a problem.
Maybe these are all just add-ons for such a service.
I don't think he means you replace your email with this, just have this as a public email. You will still give coworkers or collaborators your regular address and they could send you long code and messages, but strangers wouldn't be able to.
And obviously if you are in a position where strangers should send you random unsolicited code or long messages you should just not use this.
The problem is that it's difficult to know if a stranger might send you a long unsolicited email. Perhaps one of your friends meets somebody who might have a job for you and gives out your email address or whatever.
The majority of the spam I receive is under 500 chars anyway so it wouldn't really help in that regard.
I think the point is that that stranger should introduce himself first in less then 300 chars and then you can decide whether it is important enough to hear him out fully.
Your last sentence makes me feel like you didn't understand the idea at all - it is not to fight spam, but to help you manage communication with real people that you don't know. The basic example is a VC flooded with long copy pasted pitches instead of a poignant and succinct pitch.
I'm surprised this hasn't already been posted here. The article is a bit ranty (and humorous) at times but I think it makes a good case for why you should start your next project with Node.js instead of Rails.
It's not impossible to detect passenger vs. driver, it's just not easy. ;-)