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Blogstalk ranks #10 on google when searching for "bathroom voyeur".
Blogstalk is a social networking site based on an extension of OKC's journal system.
Posting a blog entry
To post a new blog entry, visit http://blogstalk.com/newpost.php. You can either access it from this post, or you can visit the "blog" link under the "My" section of the menu on the left. There is a button for "Make a new post" that links to this.
Fill in the title and blog text. The controls for visibility and comment permissions should be fairly intuitive. The "automatic br" option is for automatic line breaks. When you are ready to publish the blog post, click on the "post" button.
Following activity
Similar to the favorites system on OKC, blogstalk has a following system. This allows you to see blog posts and comments of followed members separately from the activity of other members. To follow someone, visit their profile and click on the "follow" button. You have an option to either notify them or not. This can also be undone by clicking on the "unfollow" button. Followed "blogs" and "comments" are listed separated in the "followed" section of the menu on the left.
Notifications
the notification bar on the top of the page shows you how many new mail messages, followers, comments in your blog, and replies to your comments there are. Reply notification works only if someone clicks on the "reply" button located next to your comment.
I will edit and add more to this later.
Posting a blog entry
To post a new blog entry, visit http://blogstalk.com/newpost.php. You can either access it from this post, or you can visit the "blog" link under the "My" section of the menu on the left. There is a button for "Make a new post" that links to this.
Fill in the title and blog text. The controls for visibility and comment permissions should be fairly intuitive. The "automatic br" option is for automatic line breaks. When you are ready to publish the blog post, click on the "post" button.
Following activity
Similar to the favorites system on OKC, blogstalk has a following system. This allows you to see blog posts and comments of followed members separately from the activity of other members. To follow someone, visit their profile and click on the "follow" button. You have an option to either notify them or not. This can also be undone by clicking on the "unfollow" button. Followed "blogs" and "comments" are listed separated in the "followed" section of the menu on the left.
Notifications
the notification bar on the top of the page shows you how many new mail messages, followers, comments in your blog, and replies to your comments there are. Reply notification works only if someone clicks on the "reply" button located next to your comment.
I will edit and add more to this later.
I have completed development of a new lexical analyzer. This should allow arbitrary fake tags to show like this:
<fake tag>Example</fake tag>
This does not require any special technique. Just type it and it will show. This will also leave all tags visible that are real but filtered out for security reasons, and it should allow for arbitrary emoticons containing the < symbol, which previously caused all text following that symbol to vanish if the emoticon was not whitelisted.
One extra bonus is automatic tag closing, which should eliminate problems with unclosed tags. The only possible exception is in lengthy quotes. That will be fixed later.
<fake tag>Example</fake tag>
This does not require any special technique. Just type it and it will show. This will also leave all tags visible that are real but filtered out for security reasons, and it should allow for arbitrary emoticons containing the < symbol, which previously caused all text following that symbol to vanish if the emoticon was not whitelisted.
One extra bonus is automatic tag closing, which should eliminate problems with unclosed tags. The only possible exception is in lengthy quotes. That will be fixed later.
In November of 2008, I was seriously contemplating the possibility of creating an alternative to OKCupid. The site was full of bugs and was declining in function. It was clear that code updates were not sufficiently tested, and many updates were completely unnecessary. Some updates involved the intentional removal of functionality. The most notable ones were the removable of image comments and tables. I liked the general concept of the site, but I hated the implementation of it, and it was getting worse. I knew that I could make something better.
I had decided that blogstalk should focus exclusively on the blogs. I avoided making this a dating site, because the other major problem with okcupid is that many people left when they found love, because they felt it was wrong to stay on a "dating site". I didn't want that to happen here.
I wrote a bit of code in November and stopped for a while due to excessive amounts of paid work. I resumed again in January and had most of the basic functions completed by February. On March 17, 2009, I was ready for beta testing. I sent out some private messages to my e-friends to let them know about my project. This message included a request to not tell anyone about this. I was using a small test server that could not handle a large influx of members, and I didn't want to deal with the headache of hundreds of complaints for the same problem. The system still needed significant testing before I was ready for it to be public.
On March 18, Ren joined and made a post. That was the official birth of blogstalk.
I had decided that blogstalk should focus exclusively on the blogs. I avoided making this a dating site, because the other major problem with okcupid is that many people left when they found love, because they felt it was wrong to stay on a "dating site". I didn't want that to happen here.
I wrote a bit of code in November and stopped for a while due to excessive amounts of paid work. I resumed again in January and had most of the basic functions completed by February. On March 17, 2009, I was ready for beta testing. I sent out some private messages to my e-friends to let them know about my project. This message included a request to not tell anyone about this. I was using a small test server that could not handle a large influx of members, and I didn't want to deal with the headache of hundreds of complaints for the same problem. The system still needed significant testing before I was ready for it to be public.
On March 18, Ren joined and made a post. That was the official birth of blogstalk.
Due to numerous complaints regarding the color scheme, I am developing an alternative.
This version is already available to anyone using Firefox. In the VIEW MENU change the PAGE STYLE to "blue" to use this color scheme. I am considering a switch to this as the default.
This version is already available to anyone using Firefox. In the VIEW MENU change the PAGE STYLE to "blue" to use this color scheme. I am considering a switch to this as the default.
I am considering a change to the order in which blogs are presented on the home page. Instead of doing it chronologically by when the post was written, I am considering a sort order more like how it's done in forums. This involves sorting based on a combination of the timestamps for the publication time and last edit time of the post, and the time of the last comment. The advantage of this is that all new content, both blog entries and comments, would be easier to find.
Although I could implement two different sorting systems, that would be extra work with little benefit. I am considering a change to this method of sorting as the only option.
Although I could implement two different sorting systems, that would be extra work with little benefit. I am considering a change to this method of sorting as the only option.
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