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Social Network

Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2012 10:40 pm
by tappatekie
Hey all, My website is launching today! (11/06/12 at midnight! (GMT)), I would love for you all to be there for the grand opening!.

Address: http://www.dasocial.net

Re: Social Network

Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 10:27 am
by dandymcgee
Seems very secretive.. I'll be sure to check it out when it goes public.

Re: Social Network

Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 2:28 pm
by lalacomun
Great! ;)

Re: Social Network

Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 3:36 pm
by dandymcgee
It's been set back a day..? Talk about a fail before it even starts.

To be honest, I don't have high hopes for this project as it seem a bit over ambitious. Nontheless, I wish you luck and will check it out if and when it's released.

Re: Social Network

Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 3:49 pm
by tappatekie
dandymcgee wrote:It's been set back a day..? Talk about a fail before it even starts.

To be honest, I don't have high hopes for this project as it seem a bit over ambitious. Nontheless, I wish you luck and will check it out if and when it's released.
Because it's just starting out, theres bound to be a few tedious things wrong with things. But I can assure you it will be up and running by tomorrow before 2PM (GMT)

But, to be honest it was a very annoying thing, I spent 5 hours this morning developing the privacy settings and getting them perfect, when stupid me... deleted the wrong folder which permanently deleted the 5 hours of code (I tried recovery but to no avail). I have learned my lesson, and this WILL NOT happen again. I give you my word, and lets be honest, haven't we all at some point deleted a file/folder we didn't intend to?
dandymcgee wrote:Seems very secretive..
What is secretive about the website? I have a countdown type deal because today I have set-up the server ready to handle the(possible) traffic.

Re: Social Network

Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 6:34 pm
by dandymcgee
tappatekie wrote: But, to be honest it was a very annoying thing, I spent 5 hours this morning developing the privacy settings and getting them perfect, when stupid me... deleted the wrong folder which permanently deleted the 5 hours of code (I tried recovery but to no avail). I have learned my lesson, and this WILL NOT happen again. I give you my word, and lets be honest, haven't we all at some point deleted a file/folder we didn't intend to?
Been there, done that. It sucks. Are you using revision control for the source? If not, you should definitely consider it. Committing after each major feature is working might save you such a loss in the future. Even just a local repo works great, don't think that you have to push every commit to the live server. Use it as a temporary backup of sorts.

Re: Social Network

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 2:31 am
by tappatekie
dandymcgee wrote:
tappatekie wrote: But, to be honest it was a very annoying thing, I spent 5 hours this morning developing the privacy settings and getting them perfect, when stupid me... deleted the wrong folder which permanently deleted the 5 hours of code (I tried recovery but to no avail). I have learned my lesson, and this WILL NOT happen again. I give you my word, and lets be honest, haven't we all at some point deleted a file/folder we didn't intend to?
Been there, done that. It sucks. Are you using revision control for the source? If not, you should definitely consider it. Committing after each major feature is working might save you such a loss in the future. Even just a local repo works great, don't think that you have to push every commit to the live server. Use it as a temporary backup of sorts.
Yeah definitely, i've created a program to backup my code every 20 minutes now :D, il look into commits as well.

Re: Social Network

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 6:03 am
by tappatekie
Website is now ONLINE!!!

Re: Social Network

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 5:15 pm
by dandymcgee
tappatekie wrote:Website is now ONLINE!!!
When I click the No Messages link on my profile page I get:
Error 324 (net::ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE): The server closed the connection without sending any data

Re: Social Network

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 5:34 pm
by tappatekie
dandymcgee wrote:
tappatekie wrote:Website is now ONLINE!!!
When I click the No Messages link on my profile page I get:
Error 324 (net::ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE): The server closed the connection without sending any data
Did you repeatedly do this or just the once?. Also, if it was repeated, please tell me your email address (the beginning or a clue of what it is will do)

Edit: I have found the issue, it's because you have no friends basically, the current code is setup to expect you to have friends which obviously then gives an error which is what your seeing (the server just kills the connection when a page errors).
I have now got a page to show when it errors, but will fix the error in the next live server update.

Re: Social Network

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 8:30 pm
by superLED
tappatekie wrote:it's because you have no friends basically, the current code is setup to expect you to have friends which obviously then gives an error
Aw, that's gonna suck. Getting error because you don't have any friends.

Re: Social Network

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 8:37 pm
by JarrodParkes
superLED wrote:Getting error because you don't have any friends.
Social networking at its best! No worries, everyone is a friend here at the Rift 8-)

Re: Social Network

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 8:50 pm
by tappatekie
superLED wrote:Getting error because you don't have any friends.
Fixed, if you have no friends, it won't give you the messages link.
I thought I took care of the gliche, but then realised it was amongst the code that was deleted..

Re: Social Network

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 9:05 pm
by tappatekie
I have now upgraded the profile page to a less duller layout as well as changing the colour scheme.
You can also register with just a username without the use of an email.
Again, the link is http://www.dasocial.net

Re: Social Network

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 11:20 pm
by mattheweston
I don't mean this to be mean, but I think you may lose out on users by limiting it to chrome and firefox browsers. WIndows users have IE out of the box and many people are too lazy to try to install a new browser (aka chrome or firefox.) Also you are cutting out many iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch users by not developing for Safari.