Mark's J-Spot: Home Japanese social network

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New Friendship!

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☰ Posted: 8d

This gif of Japan is confusing

Posted in: Public Gallery

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Mark has created a new forum thread in Jappleng Dev Club

Friday Nov 1 - Vocabulary Tracker / Huge Education Project →

Mark has created a new forum thread in Jappleng Dev Club

Thursday October 31 - Friend Finder + Interest system is live →

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☰ Posted: 13d

User interests with friend finder is here!

I'll be writing a forum posts about this in a bit but you can now change your intersts and be found by interests using the friend finder! This means you can find others with similar interests as well :D

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☰ Posted: 13d

Wooooooooooooooooooow! It looks really nice!!! Congrats!!

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☰ Posted: 16d

I'm gone today but Jappleng will be complete this week and then I'll spend my time on spreading the word of the site, sending out a e-mail newsletter to everyone to come back, and add new lessons and study apps. I hope you will all like it!

Next in line:
- Save changes for user interests (Tomorrow)

- Friend Finder available from all pages (Tomorrow)

- Vocabulary Tracker (Wednesday)

- Vocabulary Tracker for existing courses / Lessons (Wednesday)

- Vocabulary Trainer / Flashcards App (Thursday)

- Fix pronounciation guide for JPLearn! where I had accidentally used the wrong files for the last pronunciation chart (Friday)
- Update Chat with new chat design (Friday)

I will attempt to follow this schedule and hope that all will go well. I'm not sure when I will send out the newsletter because I need to make it possible to disable newsletters and friend invite emails as well as other types of notification e-mails.

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New Friendship!

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Friday October 25 - Major new features: Pen-pals / Friend f.. →

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☰ Posted: 19d

Hey everyone, I just want to say that the Pen-Pal / User search system is complete!

Every feature for it should actually work properly now and it's very extensive! I'm now working on the interests page to make it possible to save your interests so other profiles besides my test profile shows up there using advanced parameters. Give it a try!

https://www.jappleng.com/jspot/penpals

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☰ Posted: 20d

The penpal system has been updated!

It isn't complete but it's near complete.

Issues:

Some search parameters are finnicky.

Back / Next page don't yet support all search parameters

Searches aren't remembered so if you want to change parameters as you are searching, you will have to wait tomorrow.

Tomorrow I also will be adding the interests page where users will be able to update their profile accordingly and be included in these results. In the future I will eventually add privacy settings for search inclusion / exclusion / friend only etc... But while it is prepared today, it will not be ready tomorrow or anytime this month. But this is something I am looking into because your privacy is very important. smile

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☰ Posted: 20d

Hey guys I'm back!

I couldn't sleep and slept through the time I had available to work on the site yesterday so I'll catch up today. Finishing up the penpal/language exchange/friend finder / interest system right now.

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☰ Posted: 20d

Complete:
+ Can search based on almost all parameters

+ Pagination works, slight work needs to be done for complexparameters though

+ Styling is done for the user list

+ Validation / Security featues implemented

+ User interest page had selectable / changable data
+ Need to list all parameters as drop downs, check boxesetc....
+ Need to style said things
+ Need to finish pagination system based on complexparameters

Incomplete:
- Submission system completion (I'm here)
- Display selected data from search so that it doesn't keep resetting
- Need to update style to interest page
- Need to save changes from the interest form

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☰ Posted: 22d

The friend finder system is coming along nicely.

+ Can search based on almost all parameters

+ Pagination works, slight work needs to be done for complex parameters though

+ Styling is done for the user list

+ Validation / Security featues implemented

+ User interest page had selectable / changable data

- Need to finish pagination system based on complex parameters

- Need to list all parameters as drop downs, check boxes etc....

- Need to style said things

- Need to update style to interest page

- Need to save changes from the interest form

Basically the hard part is over. It's just a lot of small things to do. I probably won't be done today.

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☰ Posted: 22d

Also I designed this system to work not just for users but for content as well. This means that the search bar will work afterwards finding data from all posts, lessons, etc... made on the site without requiring tags. I will implement that last as I'm sure you guys are eager to use the vocabulary tracker.

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☰ Posted: 26d

E-Mail system works now! They are no longer flagged as spam and are authenticated. New members starting now will get a welcome E-Mail and for everyone, new friend requests are also sent but managable by a setting. This will make the world of difference and sets us up to send a "come back" e-mail in a few days to explode the activity level. :D