{"id":6717,"date":"2024-03-19T23:50:14","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T06:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/novel-site-boo\/"},"modified":"2024-03-19T23:50:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T06:50:14","slug":"novel-site-boo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/novel-site-boo\/","title":{"rendered":"novel site boo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tried to send an email to the site that hosts the machine translated Chinese novels I&#8217;ve been enjoying, and I got a notice of failure to deliver because their settings are misconfigured.<\/p>\n<p>I really wonder who is running the site and what&#8217;s going on in the background \ud83e\udd14<\/p>\n<p>I tried to make an account with them before, and it wouldn&#8217;t let me. And I&#8217;m not part of their Discord server. And I&#8217;ve noticed that other people post their complaints in reviews of various books.<\/p>\n<p>So like, I have to side-eye the way they&#8217;re handling things on their end. Shady af.<\/p>\n<p>I want to finish reading the novels I&#8217;ve chosen, so I&#8217;ve taken to switching off Javascript when I&#8217;m using their site. No more redirects and nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m thinking someone jacked into the javascript running their advertisements (which I don&#8217;t see because I run blocker).<\/p>\n<p>And now I&#8217;m second-guessing the use of javascript for my own projects.<\/p>\n<p>I really like that people can play my games in their browser on <a href=\"http:\/\/itch.io\">itch.io<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.itch.io\">https:\/\/harperkingsley.itch.io<\/a>). 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?<\/p>\n<p>I focused more on &quot;affordable hosting&quot; then anything else, and I don&#8217;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&#8230; I&#8217;m not ready to handle that level of risk.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s very stressful.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m only chapter 210 out of 1290 of the current novel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tried to send an email to the site that hosts the machine translated Chinese novels I&#8217;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&#8217;s going on in the background \ud83e\udd14 I tried to make an account&hellip;<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/novel-site-boo\/\" title=\"novel site boo\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">novel site boo<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"Layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-harperkingsley0-0","post-6717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pPoL-1Kl","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6724,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/notes-4\/","url_meta":{"origin":6717,"position":0},"title":"notes","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"March 21, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Wow. 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