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Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades

Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades

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Comments (66)

  • selcuka
    I'm wondering how many automated tests this change broke.Yes, I know it's not the example.com's fault, and it's a side effect of Hyrum's Law:> This is not a service, avoid relying on it for testing and monitoring purposes.Don't we all have a few fragile tests?
  • sea-gold
    Discussed here a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49915060
  • jamdav16
    > there's a gradual opacity transitionLooks like they removed this and instead just show all languages with no CSS animation now.
  • adithyassekhar
    The page mentions example.com 14 times and not a single one is a link
  • zahrevsky
    > There is no requirement there is a HTTP service present on the host in order to fulfill its purpose, we just operate it as a courtesy.I guess this is also done to prevent bad actors from abusing the fact that this domain is hit by people who might not know what they're doing (the ones copy-pasting code without reading it)
  • gavino
    Really funny coincidence, I noticed amazon wasn't loading a couple hours ago. Thought it was my internet so went to example.com to check and noticed the redesign. Figured it was a while ago though.
  • 1vuio0pswjnm7
    I just don't understand why the operator, IANA, has to use Cloudflare for example.comIt cannot manage a one page website. WTFThere are no page "aseets", no need for images, CSS, etc. It was a text-only website to test connectivityiana.org forwards to Cloudflare, tooFortunately the FTP server service still worksWithout assistance from a third partyIf it's been a sensible decision to use Cloudflare for some period of time then why did IANA wait until now
  • Lightbody
    I’m curious… who hosts and controls this content? IANA? Never really considered this question until now…
  • Gualdrapo
    > Along with introducing multi-language support, the JavaScript code also inserts an SVG book icon.Wait - using JS for dynamic content is understandable, but why using it for inserting a static SVG?
  • slipfold
  • monskov
    who's job was it to make incremental stylesheet changes on example.com in the 2010s?
  • lifeisloving
    Ive been using example1.com recently for availability type testing for what its worth.
  • cute_boi
    IANA, a natural monopoly, can't even host simple html page is kinda funny.
  • gumby
    Static test is still, IMHO best, but if they want that fancy transition they could at least have used a gif. All that js is terrible overkill.
  • dangoodmanUT
    the copy on example.com looks llm-generated now...
  • sajithdilshan
    What would have been nice is that depending on the visitors IP address’s region, showing a localised message instead of fixed number of languages
  • chews
    it's nice, and it surprised me when I saw the redesign.... I use it to navigate into captive wifi portals that always seem to be misconfigured.
  • ChrisArchitect
    Previously:IANA's email about why example.com changedhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49915060
  • hidelooktropic
    It's down?
  • anon
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  • reincoder
    We (IPinfo) have a practice of adopting low-maintenance, high-utility services. Generally, we adopt websites that would have become defunct and run them as services.Even though IANA says example.com is intended for documentation purposes and not as a service, I feel that it nonetheless serves as a service to the broader internet. I think there are some cornerstone services on the internet, regardless of the maintainers' intentions or their legal definitions.For example, we ourselves sometimes have to recognize that we are not a standard API service. Considering that we expect to process 3 trillion requests this year, a major outage could take down a good chunk of IT systems everywhere. So, we invested in infrastructure to avoid outages. We then started adopting other cornerstone services and running them indefinitely because we might as well support the users who depend on them because we have infrastructure to support them and us.