You rock for moving us forward, Gud!
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Do you have problems, concerns, or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
Thanks, Gud. I can't code, but I can test like a maniac when you are ready.
Read New is going to have to be a lot more prominent on the mobile version.
Will we luddites who only read on computer (my smart phone...isn't allowed to be) have the option to keep the present look? I'll bet that's way too much trouble, huh?
Maybe the left-sidebar can appear if the browser window gets wide enough.
Getting ready for another update tomorrow. No UI adjustments yet as I've been working on the guts.
I think it's ready for contributions. Let me know if you want to add some code (please use branches rather than committing directly to master). It's all done with PHP, HTML templates, and CSS. It's hosted on gitlab so you need a gitlab account (which is free) to work on the project. There's enough code there now that you can see the patterns for how things work. Templates are used for views and PHP is used for controllers and utility functions. URL routing is all handled in the index.php file. PHP code and HTML are never mixed.
If you are interested in testing it out, let me know what userid you are going to use and I'll give you an invite code to register.
There is almost no functionality yet. There's registration (not how it will work for the real version), there's login and logout, you can view the one active thread, and you can post to the one active thread. And that's pretty much it.
The database is subject to getting wiped pretty often so everything will be pretty ephemeral.
The updated version is up at www.buffistas.me
Please give me an invite code so I can register and fake post stuff.
sent via e-mail
Invite codes will stay good even if the database is wiped. But a database wipe does mean you'll have to register again. On the plus side registering again will get you a new automatically generated tagline if you don't like the one you get before.