Kak2tak.tk: it means the idea was not so bad ...

The creators of Kak2tak.tk , a service launched this spring, rejoice for the third day in a row. From the very beginning there were doubts whether the users need it, whether the idea is good ... And now we read the news - Pavel Durov launched telegra.ph. A service that allows a couple of clicks to place on the network text and link to it. That is almost the same thing that Kak2tak.tk can ...

I will explain the cause of joy. Undoubtedly, everyone has successful and unsuccessful ideas on whether telegra.ph will become megapopular - no one can say. But if Mr. Durov, a person who is not the last on the Web, launches a certain service, then the idea seemed interesting to him. So, on the principle of transitivity, the authors of Kak2tak.tk are almost as perspicacious and clever as Paul! )

Now a little more serious.

Nobody talks about plagiarism. Blaming telegra.ph for stealing an idea is pointless. Then, rather, it is necessary to blame both the Telegraph and Kak2tak.tk for the fact that they have overseen the plan at pastebin. For the same reason, the creators of text editors are not judging each other - the functionality is the same for everyone, nothing special has been introduced.
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But to understand the difference in functionality, let me give a sign.

	Kak2tak.tk	Telegra.ph *
Placement of media content	not	Yes
Hyperlinking	not	Yes
Commenting + comment tracker	Yes	not
"Sly" link to the record	Yes	not
Indexing entries by search engines	not	Yes
Editing Records	Yes	Yes**
Service Start Date	04/2016	11/2016

* Opportunities telegra.ph voiced as of 27/11/2016
** Within one browser session

From the basic features of Telegraph and Kak2tak.tk, only the possibility of placing text in a few clicks without registration is the same. Further ways of services diverge: Pavel Durov is focused on a lightweight interface (we like it terribly), on media content and, of course, on integration with Telegrams.

The creators of kak2tak.tk deliberately abandoned hyperlinks, gif-animation and other media, opting for a warm tube-like plain text (with bold, italics and underlining). Last but not least, this is a measure against black SEO-optimization, but the main message - “Longridds will save the world”. Read the words, without being distracted by the video with cats, type. Maybe a little Starburger sounds, but as it is, it is.

Now about the URL records. In the discussion of the Telegraph has already noted that the selection of numbers in the link to the record, you can get to other people's posts. There is no big crime in this, the Telegraph is not a private service and nobody has promised complete secrecy. In the end, all pages are in the public domain and indexed by search engines.

In Kak2tak.tk, everything is exactly the opposite. Actually, the service was born from the idea of ​​“open anonymity”, when the page with the text is in the public domain, but you cannot accidentally stumble upon it (or by Google). Only those whom the author gave a link of the form kak2tak.tk/o87hdsbfh98BHN789h have access to the record. And what words on this page are written and what is being discussed there is on the conscience of the author.

So it turns out that the Telegraph and Kak2tak.tk are something like cousins. There is something in common (like common parents), but there are many different things. And the main thing - both there, and there the idea of ​​“open internet” is supported, which is good news.

PS I am pleased to announce that the owners of the service have finally ceased to be greedy and have upgraded hosting. I hope, the fall of Kak2tak.tk from habraeffekta will no longer be.

PPS Posts about our service (optional for reading): one time (03/21/2016) and two (04/26/2016)

UPD: To everyone who, in the comments and in personal messages, gave advice and offered help - many thanks! As a result, we screwed the https to the site and made a mirror kak2tak.xyz for those who do not like .tk.