alt Hacker NewsNot a mobile issue. I am on desktop and had no idea what this service was because nothing on the initial UI explained what we were looking at. I went and double-checked when people here were talking about pricing and VMs. From the home page, I figured it was some text-based game or experiment and closed the page.
It looks like some people who work there are watching this thread, so to them I say: You have got to explain what this is, not just say "the disk persists..." and expect people to dig deeper. Most aren't that curious.
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It's odd to see how people are not accustomed to plain websites anymore. You click the 'About' link in the footer, and get a direct explanation of what it is, pricing and the entire documentation.
I thought it was one of those game sites where you had to "hack" it every step of the way to advance the next level.
>From the home page, I figured it was some text-based game or experiment and closed the page.
Same, my first thought was that it's some pentesting game where you're given a VM and your task is to somehow break it. The line "the disk persists. you have sudo" sounds like game rules.
The website has a huge `ssh exe.dev`, so I'd expect that running that works, but:
Why put an SSH command in a huge banner if I have to go around and register before I can use it anyway?