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Furmeets UK - New Features
Oct. 17th, 2010 09:43 amSince being inspired by The Social Network to do more with my site to get more people using it, I've been hard at work adding a few new features and I've got ideas for more as well. Some of the new features are now online:
The above buttons now feature on every event page. The share buttons were easier to do than I had expected, though I would really like to be able to have people add an event to their Facebook calendar rather than just share the page URL. Google Calendar link was rather easy too as it's just a URL. My next task is to get the site to build ICS files so you can import them into the calendars of most popular mail clients. Looking forward, I could also do ICS files you could subscribe to so you automatically get all future meets for a given group appear in your chosen calendar application.
Ultimately, I think I'll need to be able to allow people to sign in to the site so they can create meets and then edit them too. Other registrants could say they're attending or not and leave comments regarding the meets tho considering the UKFur forums are generally used for meet discussion, I'm not sure if there would be much interest in this feature. There's also a possibility that with user logins, people could create their own groups (and edit the details for them accordingly, and also control if anyone can make meets for those groups or just a restricted list, etc) and going beyond that, there's no reason why I couldn't make it work for the whole world and not just the UK assuming people are effectively generating the content themselves.
So yeah, lots of ideas for the site, however I'm not as professional coder and am very much still learning as I go so don't expect any big changes in a short time! It's clear from the existing code I've used to write Furmeets UK that it's very untidy so I'll probably recode the entire site before adding any more major features.
The above buttons now feature on every event page. The share buttons were easier to do than I had expected, though I would really like to be able to have people add an event to their Facebook calendar rather than just share the page URL. Google Calendar link was rather easy too as it's just a URL. My next task is to get the site to build ICS files so you can import them into the calendars of most popular mail clients. Looking forward, I could also do ICS files you could subscribe to so you automatically get all future meets for a given group appear in your chosen calendar application.
Ultimately, I think I'll need to be able to allow people to sign in to the site so they can create meets and then edit them too. Other registrants could say they're attending or not and leave comments regarding the meets tho considering the UKFur forums are generally used for meet discussion, I'm not sure if there would be much interest in this feature. There's also a possibility that with user logins, people could create their own groups (and edit the details for them accordingly, and also control if anyone can make meets for those groups or just a restricted list, etc) and going beyond that, there's no reason why I couldn't make it work for the whole world and not just the UK assuming people are effectively generating the content themselves.
So yeah, lots of ideas for the site, however I'm not as professional coder and am very much still learning as I go so don't expect any big changes in a short time! It's clear from the existing code I've used to write Furmeets UK that it's very untidy so I'll probably recode the entire site before adding any more major features.
