Hello fellow Hackers, Saoud from Fakespot here.

We are excited to announce the latest product in the Fakespot suite, NFT Guard!

This extension will provide verification of NFT collections/NFTs on OpenSea (for first release, we are planning other marketplaces based on user/community feedback) and the detection of scam mint sites that will steal your tokens once a wallet is connected.

Please leave comments here and I'd be more than happy to answer them!

Adobe products are not stale. Photoshop has already successfully incorporated some of the recent research on image processing using GANs and it's getting ever more powerful.

There's nothing in Photoshop since CS2 that I need, and I use it every single week. In fact, with every update they seem to either break something, or make the tool worse. I've use the tool for 20 years. I don't WANT to be forced to upgrade to the newest version where some shortcut is inexplicably changed for no good reason. They need to stop trying to add new keys to a piano. Let us play the instrument as we learned it.

I agreee with everything you said, but none of it is relevant in the context of comparing Photoshop to an obsolete database.

My point was not that it’s UX is improving, only that the technology isn’t stale.

I mean, if the only features that get added aren't useful, then isn't that actually worse than being stale? It's an antipattern at that point.

Useful _to you_

I am centered pretty squarely in the middle of their use case, so I would be relatively surprised if I'm an outlier.

Not surprising at all at this point. At Fakespot we've noticed a huge surge in fake reviews that originate from Facebook groups where sellers and professional reviewers meet.

The way it works is that a seller provides some kind of incentive (gift card, paypal money, etc) to write a 5 star or even 1 star review (for competitors). Facebook has hosted these groups and they have exploded in numbers in the last year.

They also put “you’re a lucky customer” offer cards offering Amazon gift cards with the items. We emailed a hotmail account to get a $15 Amazon card for filling out a review. Then they offered an extra $10 to make it 5 star.

Couldn’t one make the review, take the money, then delete the review after redeeming the card?

I'd imagine you could but enough people just don't bother that it still ends up worth it.

And/or, the set of people who'd have qualms about leaving a fake review, but were perfectly willing to cheat a stranger out of $15, is empty. Not to mention, it would kill an opportunity for repeat business.