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Lost me at 1489167 -> 1489280 -.>

F5

1489167 -> 1489280 -.>

At least pretend to get your realtime data right before posting on HN.



They seems to link the stuff to this https://cdn.blackbox.cool/uploads/json/boxes_shipped.json

Perhaps they do sent the real number, but it is being cached by the CDN?


Even if that's the awesomest tech available, the "realtime update" is so fake and so immediately identifiable as such and so immediately confirmable as such (and the most eye-drawing component of their homepage!) that the company loses all credibility. Without knowing anything else about them, it's a pretty bad indicator.


Do you really think people care that much about the counter?


Or it is just a case of dead-reckoning... which is pretty standard.


You needed to press F5? I just assumed it was nonsense - a new order shipping company, shipping 100+ items per second?




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