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3 votes
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What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
What have you been playing lately? Discussion about video games and board games are both welcome. Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game(s) as well.
9 votes -
What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking?
What food and drinks have you been enjoying (or not enjoying) recently? Have you cooked or created anything interesting? Tell us about it!
4 votes -
Open source recommendations for a photo/post voting site?
TLDR: I need a website that let's signed in users vote on each others photos, and stores that data on who voted for what in a database. Background I run a facebook group of about 2,000 members....
TLDR:
I need a website that let's signed in users vote on each others photos, and stores that data on who voted for what in a database.
Background
I run a facebook group of about 2,000 members. This group is designed for analog (any non-digital format) photographers to swap high quality artistic prints with each oter. The community was essentially dead and the admin wanted to throw in the towel so I took over. We've made progress, the group growth jumped by over 500% in the first month after I took over.
Right now trading prints doesn't work well. People make a post using the facebook selling format, and those who are interested comment with the image they'd like to trade for. The problem is that the posts get limited visibility due to facebook's algorithms, and stale posts hang around. All of this reduces over all activity, and the majority of posts don't end up in a trade.
My solution is to do a trade event with everyone participating at the same time. Since facebook doesn't lend itself to this I'd like to whip up a quick site for the event. My time is so limited these days I really don't have the capacity to build something from scratch, and the group certainly doesn't have any other developers to help out with it (it skews heavily on the older side).
I'd like to find an open source project that lets users sign in (sign in using facebook would be a bonus) and upload/vote on images. After the voting closes, I'll write code to pair everyone up in a way that optimizes for everyone getting to make a trade. If Alice votes for Bob's image, and Bob votes for Alice's image, they would get paired up to make the swap.
I feel okay writing the code to map out swaps, but I'm pretty terrible at web design and especially at front end design. I've looked across github, but I wanted to reach out and see if anyone could recommend something that I might of missed.
I don't expect to have 2,000 members participate, I think it may be as few as under 100, so hopefully I won't need to worry about scale.
Thanks in advance for the help!
11 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of September 5
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
7 votes -
Gerda: A Flame in Winter | Launch trailer
3 votes -
Liz Truss to be next UK Prime Minister
12 votes -
Weekly coronavirus-related chat, questions, and minor updates - week of September 5
This thread is posted weekly, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the...
This thread is posted weekly, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the situation is like where you live!
9 votes -
Two Swedish filmmakers have been found guilty of illegally disturbing the MS Estonia ferry, which sank in 1994 killing 852 people
6 votes -
Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey | Trailer 1
8 votes -
One week of Stable Diffusion
4 votes -
Meltwater from Greenland's ice sheet is loaded with the right kind of sand for concrete production – which further warms the planet
4 votes -
First impressions using Astro
4 votes -
‘Euphoria, ‘Stranger Things,’ ‘The White Lotus’ score on night two of 2022 Creative Arts Emmys
3 votes -
Homeworld 3 | Official extended gameplay trailer
5 votes -
Breaking down how USB4 goes where no USB standard has gone before
15 votes -
Vote on world’s most progressive constitution begins in Chile
9 votes -
Nerdforge & Linus Tech Tips collaborate to build the ultimate cyberpunk PC
Part 1: Nerdforge - I Built the Ultimate Cyberpunk PC (18:28) Part 2: LTT - This PC took 600 HOURS to Build! (25:04) And if you just want to skip to the results, it's at 19m32s in the LTT video.
5 votes -
Why (and how) over 600,000 bird specimens are preserved at the Smithsonian | Colossal Collections
4 votes -
How this Florida town became the sea sponge capital of the world | Big Business
2 votes -
Copenhagen Cowboy | Sneak peek
8 votes -
Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson tackles crime and energy fears on the campaign trail a week before the national election
4 votes -
The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse
17 votes -
‘The Whale’ star Brendan Fraser on playing a man who weighs 600 pounds: ‘I needed to learn to move in a new way’
8 votes -
2022 Creative Arts Emmys winners list, night one: ‘Adele: One Night Only,’ Super Bowl Halftime, ‘The Beatles: Get Back’ dominate
5 votes -
‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ premiere draws twenty-five million global viewers in first day, Amazon says
10 votes -
People don't want to hear about it – how the pandemic shaped Sweden's politics and left many feeling hopeless and disenfranchised
5 votes -
FTL: Kestrel Adventures
4 votes -
Will we run out of lithium?
2 votes -
The problem with mini-maps
9 votes -
They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse In Your Soul (1990)
11 votes -
The true history of the Knights Templar with Dan Jones
4 votes -
Cloudflare blocks Kiwi Farms
36 votes -
Matt Berry | What's in my (record store) bag?
7 votes -
There’s a trick to it
6 votes -
Film productions from around the world are eager to capture Iceland's dramatic landscapes – and to take advantage of an attractive incentive scheme
3 votes -
Darren Hayes looks back: ‘What you can’t see is how unhappy I was’
3 votes -
Not Just Bikes and Strong Towns discuss public transit in North America
4 votes -
Made a couple of themes for my static site generator (mkws)
4 votes -
Norway is extending the life of its last Arctic coal mine – will now operate until 2025 amid Europe's energy crisis
7 votes -
What makes Disney villains so gay?
10 votes -
Bee and Puppycat: Lazy in Space S01E01 - "Little Fingers"
5 votes -
Crafting the ocean in the music of ABZÛ
3 votes -
Argentina's VP Cristina Fernández de Kirchner unharmed in point-blank attempted shooting
6 votes -
The Proverbial Pen #3
Today is day three of my "war against writer's block"! As I keep fighting with my proverbial pen, I hope that some day I'll be able to get out of my block and be able to write some real stuff like...
Today is day three of my "war against writer's block"!
As I keep fighting with my proverbial pen, I hope that some day I'll be able to get out of my block and be able to write some real stuff like research paper or novel or story book.What I realized today is that Word Power is a very important skill. A writer is essentially a Wordsmith or someone who carves and arranges the words and phrases into sentences, just as a sculptor or carpenter would do with wood or other raw materials. To be a better writer, you must learn to fall in love with words which is probably easier said than done - especially for us non-native speakers!
Having a regular habit or routine helps with this. Each time you come across a difficult word, you open the dictionary software or app and learn its meaning. It hardly takes a few minutes but it's a very useful skill as each new word you know of acts like a raw material or building block for your writing. Better still, develop linguistics as a hobby as mastery of grammar is equally important and so is learning about how languages, cultures and people basically work and interact at the core.
Apart from that, noting down right ideas as they come is also very important. For example, the idea about the Wordsmith thing occurred to me yesterday when I was having a cup of tea. I noted it on time (before it could vanish into the depths of that dark matter called subconscious mind and become irretrievable again!), and made a note of that on my computer so that I can write it in today's proverbial pen.
Even after having these basic tools and ingredients, you may not be able to write anything at all if you lack that focused energy or passion to write about a particular topic - be it a research paper, novel, story book or something else. You need to have that energy to write which I feel I'm lacking right now. I might be able to feel that energy some day as I continue with my battles, at least I hope so! Thanks for reading this and staying with me in these challenging times.
7 votes -
What have you been listening to this week?
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as...
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as well, we'd love to see your hauls :)
Feel free to give recs or discuss anything about each others' listening habits.
You can make a chart if you use last.fm:
http://www.tapmusic.net/lastfm/
Remember that linking directly to your image will update with your future listening, make sure to reupload to somewhere like imgur if you'd like it to remain what you have at the time of posting.
4 votes -
Star Trek: Lower Decks S03E01 - "Grounded"
8 votes -
House of the Dragon S01E01 - "The Heirs of the Dragon"
5 votes -
Götheborg of Sweden – The world's largest wooden sailing ship
5 votes -
The real problem with Mozilla
5 votes