I tried to send an email to the site that hosts the machine translated Chinese novels I’ve been enjoying, and I got a notice of failure to deliver because their settings are misconfigured.
I really wonder who is running the site and what’s going on in the background 🤔
I tried to make an account with them before, and it wouldn’t let me. And I’m not part of their Discord server. And I’ve noticed that other people post their complaints in reviews of various books.
So like, I have to side-eye the way they’re handling things on their end. Shady af.
I want to finish reading the novels I’ve chosen, so I’ve taken to switching off Javascript when I’m using their site. No more redirects and nonsense.
So I’m thinking someone jacked into the javascript running their advertisements (which I don’t see because I run blocker).
And now I’m second-guessing the use of javascript for my own projects.
I really like that people can play my games in their browser on itch.io (https://harperkingsley.itch.io). And I like that while some games are public, I can have some that are only accessible by chosen audiences. But for hosting on my own site? Or making my own app?
I focused more on "affordable hosting" then anything else, and I don’t have the money to pay for all the extra bells and whistles. So if someone came in from the side to hijack my javascript… I’m not ready to handle that level of risk.
It’s very stressful.
And I’m only chapter 210 out of 1290 of the current novel.
