Mylopikch - elegant protection against spambots.
About two months ago, while doing evening surfing, quite by chance I came across a blog of an interesting LiveJournal user, a certain sheller888 . Actually, his blog was interesting in that it contained a fairly large number of ideas for a variety of web services. There I came across the idea of creating an analogue of the foreign service E-Mail Icon Generator . After conducting a short survey among my contacts about the relevance of this idea, I started to implement it. Thus, after a month and a half, a project with the unlucky name “ Mylopikch ” was born .
Initially, the concept was to enable visitors to enter their own email service provider. This option had enough of both “+” and “-”. The first stone about which I stumbled was some sort of dullness and everydayness of the generated picture. Having experimented a little with different design styles, I realized that I wouldn’t put such a picture in my signature, it looked too miserable. Further, knowledgeable people hinted at the rather simple recognition of such gifs by e-mail robots. Considering these two facts, it was decided to slightly change the concept of the project.
At the moment, “Mylopikch” generates, in my opinion, pretty eye-friendly icons that, in addition, they complicate the work of the “harvesters” a bit:
There are now fifteen of the most popular email providers in the database. Mylopikch works in beta testing mode. Together we are looking for all kinds of bugs and shortcomings. I will be glad if any of you join. I’m also always happy to hear criticism and suggestions :)
For the future, it is planned to introduce a number of new functions, including the possibility of adding an email provider to the database by visitors, naturally with pre-moderation. This function would allow not only users of large email services to play soapboxes, but also ordinary corporate and entertainment resources that provide mailbox registration services.
I will be glad to hear the opinions, suggestions, comments and ideas of habralyuda.
Initially, the concept was to enable visitors to enter their own email service provider. This option had enough of both “+” and “-”. The first stone about which I stumbled was some sort of dullness and everydayness of the generated picture. Having experimented a little with different design styles, I realized that I wouldn’t put such a picture in my signature, it looked too miserable. Further, knowledgeable people hinted at the rather simple recognition of such gifs by e-mail robots. Considering these two facts, it was decided to slightly change the concept of the project.
At the moment, “Mylopikch” generates, in my opinion, pretty eye-friendly icons that, in addition, they complicate the work of the “harvesters” a bit:
There are now fifteen of the most popular email providers in the database. Mylopikch works in beta testing mode. Together we are looking for all kinds of bugs and shortcomings. I will be glad if any of you join. I’m also always happy to hear criticism and suggestions :)
For the future, it is planned to introduce a number of new functions, including the possibility of adding an email provider to the database by visitors, naturally with pre-moderation. This function would allow not only users of large email services to play soapboxes, but also ordinary corporate and entertainment resources that provide mailbox registration services.
I will be glad to hear the opinions, suggestions, comments and ideas of habralyuda.