Noveller

Now here's a great idea. Make people write more, rather than less.

And the Preferred Character Encoding for stumbleupon is .... not UTF-8?

I've started using stumbleupon recently to experiment with its effectiveness in promoting content. I stumbled a story blog I'm building for nanowrimo and was surprised to see the Japanese title appear in my favorites as complete jibberish. Checking the response headers, they're using ISO-8859-1. Wow.

At of the time of this writing, Stumbleupon boasts 8,700,680 users. Certainly some of these users would be interested in stumbling non-English pages as well?

I imagine the developers have all sorts of esoteric reasons why they can't support unicode now, probably all of them rooted in something stupid, like a stubborn DBA who didn't bother configuring the database correctly. It turns out my company has a small website where ISO-8859-1 is still considered the shit as well.

So here I pronounce March 3rd, 2010 as "Stop Fucking using ISO-8859-1 Forever, For Fuck's Sake Day." I think this event should be regarded with even more importance than Stop Microblogging Forever Day. Lest all the web rot in mojibake.