Invite-only community project

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Today I decided I'd add something to 'gamify' the site with something fun.

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I like your idea of invite-only and think that the mystique behind it could be a great way to lure people in. Kind of like Google Plus was supposed to be?
 
Lämmchen said:
I like your idea of invite-only and think that the mystique behind it could be a great way to lure people in. Kind of like Google Plus was supposed to be?
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Sort of yeah. I've been toying with the idea of having the whole thing public but you can only register with an invite.

I'm not sure of the exact approach as of yet though whether to allow things public or what have you. But you still need an invite to sign up anyway.

It's all nearly done though so I'm very pleased about that.
 
Puppuccino said:
Sort of yeah. I've been toying with the idea of having the whole thing public but you can only register with an invite.

I'm not sure of the exact approach as of yet though whether to allow things public or what have you. But you still need an invite to sign up anyway.

It's all nearly done though so I'm very pleased about that.
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If you going to have it invite-only based then I expect the topics/post to be private. Thought about having it fully private and the public can't see it.
 
I've decided to have the first page opened up but to get to further pages you need to be logged in.

I'll see what happens. It may be a case that everything needs to be, but if it's open a bit then it allows for the addition of ads at some stage if that is something that is to be pursued.

It's a bit of trial and error right now anyway, hah.
 
Puppuccino said:
I've decided to have the first page opened up but to get to further pages you need to be logged in.

I'll see what happens. It may be a case that everything needs to be, but if it's open a bit then it allows for the addition of ads at some stage if that is something that is to be pursued.

It's a bit of trial and error right now anyway, hah.
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Having small portions of the site public is a good idea...maybe even some teaser threads but don't show the responses? Click bait? Oh no, I went there.
 
Lämmchen said:
Having small portions of the site public is a good idea...maybe even some teaser threads but don't show the responses? Click bait? Oh no, I went there.
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Haha, I don't know about click bait, that's a tad too far!
 
Well just another update about this project. I won't be launching it this week due to how long it's taken to finish up a few things and also I'm not prepared to purchase a domain / hosting for the application just yet.

Hopefully I'll be able to start the private beta next week though if all goes well. Stay tuned.

But finishing on good news; I have an MVP (minimum viable product) finished so it technically could launch right now. Just have some personal admin to sort out now!

Woo 🥳
 
I've just bought the domain! DM me if you want an invite!

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Yep, send me a DM with your email address and I'll very slowly be inviting more people into the private beta.

I don't want too many people added to start with as I'll need to do gradual testing etc.
 
It's crazy to see how far the community has come since I started this thread.

I've just launched an avatar library! Now you don't have to use Gravatar, you can select one of six fun default avatars. There are also plans to include more features like an arcade.

Be sure to check out the promotion thread for more info.
 
It will always be invite only I think, I’m just seeing where it goes really.
 
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