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Re: My side project: an open-sourced comedy community

#31

Post by willphipps » Fri, Apr 18, 2008, 8:44 AM UTC

This is a cool idea - but I think you definitely should have video.

If you could reach out to the stand up community and get them submitting videos it'd be cool - there are thousands of them as well, so filtering the good stuff is always tricky. Maybe you could tie your voting system into that.

If you are using wordpress I would recommend showinabox.tv - it lets you easily add video to your blog and let people subscribe to it. I'd consider offering footage in HD or Hi-Resolution on Miro (www.getmiro.com) it's by far the best video rss aggregator. I think youtube videos are such poor quality they really don't do most videos justice, when there is an opportunity for people to watch them full screen in DVD quality.

Re: My side project: an open-sourced comedy community

#32

Post by yters » Fri, Apr 18, 2008, 2:48 PM UTC

parker wrote: post #22

yters wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wrote a fairly lengthy article and published it, only to find I'd been logged out:(

Hmmm, thanks for the head's up, I smell a bug. I'll double check my session flow after registration tonight.

It's either that, or I wasn't automatically logged in after registering. Either way, there is at least a usability bug. If a person can write a submission without logging in, then the published work should at least be caught somehow, so it doesn't disappear into the ether through a user mistake.

Re: My side project: an open-sourced comedy community

#33

Post by parker » Fri, Apr 18, 2008, 2:56 PM UTC

yters wrote: post #32

parker wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hmmm, thanks for the head's up, I smell a bug. I'll double check my session flow after registration tonight.

It's either that, or I wasn't automatically logged in after registering. Either way, there is at least a usability bug. If a person can write a submission without logging in, then the published work should at least be caught somehow, so it doesn't disappear into the ether through a user mistake.

Hey, it did actually catch in the database, it just didn't register your user number. I've put your user number on the entry now, so it's live. I think there was one page in the site that didn't carry over the session variables, but that bug has now been fixed.

Thanks for submitting, I liked your article!

Re: My side project: an open-sourced comedy community

#34

Post by yters » Fri, Apr 18, 2008, 3:07 PM UTC

parker wrote: post #33

yters wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's either that, or I wasn't automatically logged in after registering. Either way, there is at least a usability bug. If a person can write a submission without logging in, then the published work should at least be caught somehow, so it doesn't disappear into the ether through a user mistake.

Hey, it did actually catch in the database, it just didn't register your user number. I've put your user number on the entry now, so it's live. I think there was one page in the site that didn't carry over the session variables, but that bug has now been fixed. Thanks for submitting, I liked your article!

Great!