Nick Denton's discussions

@Luke Plunkett: I'm promised it will be ready this week. Both account deletion — and if an anonymous commenter fears their identity is compromised — erasing of comment history. Read more

@Action Fitz: Is that still the case? Worked fine for me just now. Read more

@trotamundos: Yeah, I can't see how a hacker could know your new address, unless they prompted some kind of auto-respond. But, in any case, the password on your new email address ought to be different. Read more

@Sugarshock: Ugh, could you send me your email address so I can have someone look into this? Is it possible the email went into spam? I am nick at gawker. Read more

@syneblue: Yes, if you used that same password on other sites, you need to change it there, too. And use different passwords for different sites. Read more

@egg cream feels dirty: Yes, the longer and more complex your password, the longer it will take to crack. And the hackers — now that they've proved their point with the weak passwords — may move on to other targets. But best to assume that the password could be broken eventually, either by them or someone else with… Read more

@likeskeletons: That's actually pretty good password procedure. It's highly unlikely your other accounts are vulnerable from this breach. Read more

@Jessica Coen: Maybe put it in the skyline? Read more

@cookiecutter: No, the Facebook accounts were not compromised. Read more

@pauljones: Damn, that was an epic comment. And, yes, this episode showed Gawker at its best and worst. Worst: pursuit of sensation and audience without preparing for the consequences of tackling a group like 4chan. Best: the response from the writers and commenters, particularly the incredible Gizmodo geeks who… Read more

@cityfolk232: Hey, sorry to get to this question only now. The hackers were indeed in our internal email and chat boards a month ago. We're not sure how long they've had the user database, but probably weeks. My understanding is that the weak passwords — 123456, etc — are quick to crack. But it takes progressively… Read more

@clevernamehere: It's not a trivial matter. Takes a couple of hours for Mailchimp to email out those people — and longer for us to get them the list. Also, not all our commenters had email associated with their accounts. Read more

@duttypink: As you'll see on Gawker, that was a joke by Richard Lawson, the Gawker writer who emerged himself from the commentariat. A joke that doesn't seem as funny under the circumstances and particularly if you don't know Richard's background. Read more

@Whack-A-mole: Yeah, we're still working on that. We'd like to have thread-by-thread display, with pagination. And we'd assume that most comments would gravitate around the more popular threads. We do want to be able to separate out different kinds of discussions — the jokey one and the super-geeky one, for instance.… Read more

@RSDeuce: You're admirably mature — and well-prepared. I have to confess I was in a panic. Read more

@MikeofLA: Only menial things? That hurts! But, seriously, not everybody is as smart with passwords as you are. I'm not. I used the same numeric password on several old accounts. Sure, one could blame clueless users. But we need to face facts: we made it easy for hackers to exploit the weakness of their passwords. Read more

@Dravs: Well, we could probably stand to be brought down a bit. The group had been running pretty high. Lots of great scoops; an exciting new layout coming up; a buzzy holiday party on Friday. This is sobering. Read more

@Zuzax: We just did it. Read more

@an skyline: Yes, it will be. And you will have the option of deleting your account name or all your comment history in addition. That's the nuclear option. Read more

@jd: The responsibility was in-house. But I wouldn't say it was coders. It was our procedures for maintaining passwords. Mine too. Read more