lots of coding today.. got page views migrating over now too, so that we don't lose our page views on threads etc.. hehe.
just thought this looks cool.. obviously need to format things a bit better & make the date sexier, but dno, looks cool:
oh also.. i've got the forum imported several times on my local environment.. so several times * 111,000 posts and such. haha. developing locally mostly because the migration stuff is intense, runs faster locally. Hopefully some time in the near future I can pop this thing up onto the server and have people check it out. I'd like to get google authentication working before that though.. right now you can only log in via github. Need google + github.
I just want to take a moment to say how awesome it is to have the forum's most active poster, and the forum moderator, the web designer and the backend developer all be the same person. Don't know of another forum like it. Pretty amazing.
hah thanks alot man!! ya it's a somewhat interesting combo. I just can't wait until we're all living in the "new code" (if that code is acceptable and works great). I'll just be alot happier when that day comes.
If there was one thing that I think would elevate the forum to new levels is some type of video logging archiving... Like some way to tag youtube links so I could click on LBSS's journal and see max effort 30'' vertical jumps, max effort 33'' vertical jumps a few years later, and max effort 37'' vertical jumps currently... As of now video updates are really cool but if we could see progress without scrolling through pages and pages of journals that would be amazing...
nice thanks for the suggestion!
I have a few things planned for that.. the closest one that is actually implemented right now is "thread post tags" and "suggested tags". So, for example, we'll be able to tag posts as:
- workout
- workout-media
- rest
- injury
, pr / pb
- and custom tags: workout, dlrvj33, svj30, pr etc..
So with suggested tags, a forum can have a list of tags that we can choose from.. so a predefined set of tags so that we can just use those instead of custom, that way we will be able to search using a common "language".
The thing I don't have implemented yet is the search feature for that. But basically, we'll be able to just search all threads on a board, based on tags.. so, if we ONLY want to see workouts, we will be able to search by "workout".
This is an intermediary step before I (one day) implement some form of legit workout tracking. I have lots of ideas on that but, tbh, it's kinda far off for now. Had I gotten the forum done months ago in purescript, i'd probably be working on that right now.. but since I had to rewrite it from scratch in haskell, I lost alot of time. But eventually, I basically want us to be able to log workouts entirely in a "workout section", independent of the forum.. then, we'll be able to view workouts as data, with graphs/stats etc.
^^ That's one of the major goals of the new forum, is to be able to analyze our training history, see our progressions, etc. It'll also allow us to automatically figure out PR's and such, without us having to manually keep track.
So that's definitely in the eventual plans.
Unfortunately right now, the main plan is just getting this forum solid enough so we can all chat on it and use some new features like tags etc. It's been harder than expected but, that's also because i'm in a world of full-stack haskell which is VERY RARE in the programming world.. However, it has it's major upside: refactoring using haskell is the absolute best experience -> and that's one thing I always find myself doing in life, refactoring.. that's one of the main reasons I chose haskell... because I know that when I need to refactor, everything will make sense & I won't mess anything up - the language won't let me overlook anything .. ie, way less bugs this way.
I think pretty soon i'm going to deploy it to this server and let people login/check it out.. There's a few more things I need to do before that.. Then i'll open it up for anyone who wants to occasionally experiment with it / check it out etc.
The biggest step will be when we are all in it.. I think the code/project will actually accelerate when we are in it.
I'm going to try to limit features initially, like I mentioned earlier.. because I just want to get the core of this forum solid.. and, I have some other plans for it for example, I want a "console only client" etc.. So I can forum from a terminal, without a GUI ... stuff like that. The scaffolding is already there for that, so shouldn't be too difficult. But you can see where this thing is going, it's got alot of different facets to it.
When we launch the new forum, we'll have a subforum dedicated to suggestions/feedback/issues etc..
it'll be fun
peace!!!!!
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