Thanks for the link. We include a direct download link right on the page but ...
We made a conscious business decision to skip having ads, to not have a paywall, and even to let you view and download 100% registration free because it's what we believe in. But hotlinking PDFs on highly trafficked places has a huge negative impact on an already very tight budget. Using our viewer, or only downloading if you're actually interested in the docs, saves a lot of money and helps us continue our government transparency work ad- and paywall-free.
Thanks a lot for the feedback: Download links are right under the thumbnails of the respective file, but I'll work to add them in the main document view, too:
We are definitely working on a better viewer, with a mobile redesign due in a few months, but we don't have any full time developers on staff: My cofounder and I both have day jobs, and our main focus is making sure we continue to get and publish government records as efficiently and openly as possible.
The reality is also just that there aren't really any great PDF viewers we've found on the web, though we're definitely open to suggestions/inspiration if you have one you think works really well.
I couldn't figure out how to read the document in Chrome for Windows either. At least... I don't think I was reading it. I just saw a bunch of garbled text.
Since we have a lot of "longtail" documents, torrents aren't a great solution for reaching a mass audience + making sure we can reliably offer access to 339,957 pages of various government documents in tens of thousands of PDFs.
We are actively looking at doing monthly dumps, a la StackOverflow, of all our documents and data, and we'd like to do that via Torrent. As soon as I get a few day to hack on it ...
It looks like it really stumped the FBI to determine what "leetspeak" actually is, given that the only responsive document is the Twitter acronyms summary. (Is it even fair to call most of these "Twitter acronyms"?)
So I see 83 pages of twitter shortspeak as the only thing released in this FOI Request, it is possible that there are leetspeak terms defined there, but I did not bother checking.
Or, slightly below that: WYLABOCTGWTR = Would you like a bowl of cream to go with that remark?
Seriously, though, I think most of this list was drawn from a common source. Doing a Google search for a few of the acronyms in conjunction yields a bunch of very similar lists.
FTA: "This list has about 2800 entries you should find useful in your work or for keeping up with your children and/or grandchildren"