The site is deader than ever, but from a design/programming standpoint, it's in the best shape it's been in since the project's inception in septermber.
Outside of a few areas such as mod control, user settings, messages, etc, the current design is fairly close to complete. The remaining areas left will take several days of dedicated work to make them look non-terrible, but even now are mostly functional. There may still be some css changes and such, but the general site layout will not change. Adding features for the purpose of adding features is not something that will happen, mainly because 1. I refuse to bloat up the site to the point where it's even 1/4 as bloated as reddit and 2. I have no profit incentive to do so :)
I am going to spend the weekend learning C, but afterwards if I keep up the current pace of development, I'll be able to finish the site completely in the next few weeks.
Once the next exodus of reddit users happen, the site will be ready, and be in a completed state this time.
One area that may change substantially though after site development is completed is some feature(s) which distinguish users who have donated. The goal is to allow a patreon-like donation structure to be setup. Any donation-linked features will be minimal, probably limited exclusively to user profiles, and will not significantly effect the site.
Example of some features would be: the ability to upload an image to show on a user profile page, the ability to bypass captchas if I'm forced to turn some form of captcha on again, api keys with certain rate limit restrictions disabled, etc. Basically, features that would have a large amount of abuse potential, but can be offered to a limited subset of users who will not abuse them.
Anyway, for the 1.5 people left on this site, that's the current state of things. Mention the site anywhere you see reddit alternatives mentioned, but I believe we will have to wait until the next reddit exodus to reach a substantial amount of users again.
All donations will of course be listed in a public monthly report along with operating costs for transparency reasons, and will go exclusively to funding the site's operation.
For donations to trickle in there needs to be more users coming to the site - the number one issue. I'm having way too much fun with Twisted League right now but I'll try mentioning ieddit on /v/ or something when possible
yeah, that's why donation-related features will be the very last features to have been implemented. the site needs to be complete, and have users, before people have a reason to care about it.
that's one positive thing about the flask-sessions bug, it happened at an early stage of development, and people weren't very invested into their accounts and such. if it had occurred months from now, especially with donation-related features, the consequences would've been SEVERE.
Outside of a few areas such as mod control, user settings, messages, etc, the current design is fairly close to complete. The remaining areas left will take several days of dedicated work to make them look non-terrible, but even now are mostly functional. There may still be some css changes and such, but the general site layout will not change. Adding features for the purpose of adding features is not something that will happen, mainly because 1. I refuse to bloat up the site to the point where it's even 1/4 as bloated as reddit and 2. I have no profit incentive to do so :)
I am going to spend the weekend learning C, but afterwards if I keep up the current pace of development, I'll be able to finish the site completely in the next few weeks.
Once the next exodus of reddit users happen, the site will be ready, and be in a completed state this time.
One area that may change substantially though after site development is completed is some feature(s) which distinguish users who have donated. The goal is to allow a patreon-like donation structure to be setup. Any donation-linked features will be minimal, probably limited exclusively to user profiles, and will not significantly effect the site.
Example of some features would be: the ability to upload an image to show on a user profile page, the ability to bypass captchas if I'm forced to turn some form of captcha on again, api keys with certain rate limit restrictions disabled, etc. Basically, features that would have a large amount of abuse potential, but can be offered to a limited subset of users who will not abuse them.
Anyway, for the 1.5 people left on this site, that's the current state of things. Mention the site anywhere you see reddit alternatives mentioned, but I believe we will have to wait until the next reddit exodus to reach a substantial amount of users again.
All donations will of course be listed in a public monthly report along with operating costs for transparency reasons, and will go exclusively to funding the site's operation.