It bothers me that there is no https version for frid.ge. Even when you log in your credentials are sent unencrypted.<p>Compare to Facebook. On Facebook you can get a complete https experience by visiting <a href="https://www.facebook.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/</a> but even if you don't, the login still goes over https.<p>I'd take frid.ge more seriously with regards to privacy and security of my data if they simply forced all traffic over https and installed an EV SSL cert. Non SSL shouldn't even be an option. Otherwise my friends looking at my data are leaking my data. With an EV SSL cert and forced https, they could even use it as a marketing gimmick. Something along the lines of, "Frid.ge. We take the security of your personal data as seriously as your bank does"
There have been a few threads on HN about Fridge and in at least one the question about the magical "Profit" step was asked. I'm genuinely curious how a platform specifically targeted at people who want to maintain more definitive boundaries in their group memberships makes money.<p>Maybe I'm just not savvy enough to get it. The only thing I can think of is targeted advertising but even that seems a little sketchy given the premise that Fridge is ultra-private. How do you capitalize on a social graph without seeming to cross the line with privacy?<p>I guess the other option is to eventually charge for features in a sort of Freemium model.<p>Anyone have any other ideas how you monetize such a thing?
Good work. Just one issue I noticed is that when I searched for "the fridge" in Google only one of your pages turned up and it was a broken link that served a default Apache 404 page (www.frid.ge/php/login.php). There was nothing else in the results that clearly stood out as the right page.
Hadn't heard of Fridge before this article and I'm going to try it out. Everything seems to be working but it won't stop popping up the "Check your email to verify" alert (I already clicked/pasted the link a few times). That's going to get annoying :)
Is it just me or is this URL hard to navigate to? eg- for Word of Mouth<p>I don't use any other site with a .ge extension. I tried thefridge.com and got to something totally different.<p>Searched Google for "Fridge", "The Fridge", "TheFridge" and no where on first page did it appear (not surprising given how much money should be in SEO/fridge sales)<p>Am I missing something?
Well done man. Well done. I've actually used fridge with my friends a few times and we've appreciated the exclusivity that it provides as opposed to facebook.<p>PS ~ blue overload == great.