Contested - development notes

Feeds feeds everywhere! 11 Apr

I thought noone was paying attention to contested—how wrong i was!

I’ve now added some feeds so you can see when the contests status change (or you could follow ‘contested’ on twitter), subscribe and see the past winners and most recent entries. Autodiscover them on the site!

On a side note, there won’t be any more email announcements, as my server keeps getting blacklisted. Never mind.

Bugs when logging in 12 Mar

There was a bug that Sole helped me fix, where you could sign up, play about, but the next time you logged in it’d throw an authentication error. This is because the activation email (to actually make your account permanent) wasn’t being sent correctly.

This has been fixed and all pending accounts have been activated!

As a side note, the code used to activate openid doesn’t work with openid 2.. doh!

Whoops! 10 Mar

Sent the first mail alerts out with the wrong ‘from’ address (@rogerwi.co.uk instead of @rogerwil.co.uk) so I had to apply to lots of organisations to stop myself being blocked and now google mail marks us as spam!

Should be fixed now—hopefully!

New contest, and avatars 8 Mar

The new contest is open (Urban Landscapes) AND you can now set avatars ;D

Feature requests

None as of yet

Known bugs (by Priority)

OpenID implementation doesn’t support OpenID 2 at this time (see tomeks photostream for example)
If two entrants have the same number of votes—what happens? :)
Clever people can find out who has anonymously submitted pictures during the voting stage, by checking the caption of the larger image.. d’oh
Trash
Mar 6 Cam can’t seem to vote, straight after signing up
Trash
Mar 5 Colin can’t seem to upload photos, straight after signing up
Trash
Feb 27 Contest/show: Conditional saying ‘you cant enter because you have no photos’ isn’t working

TODO:

Submission / Voting pages are really rubbish (both logged in and logged out)
some way of browsing all old photos
Import from flickr/other photo sites
RSS Feed?
comments
Piclens media rss feed
contest listing page could maybe show two styles of listing, one for current competitions, the other for old competitions (including pic)
redesign site (in terms of layout) to make it easier to learn
Facebook version?
filter_parameter_logging where necessary
Trash
Mar 18 Twitter alerts?
Trash
Mar 17 Update email alerts to send individual emails rather than mass bcc’s
Trash
Mar 12 Investigate using Selenium to make sure old stuff doesn’t get broken

Old news articles  

First contest has CLOSED! 7 Mar

And I won! Ok, so only I entered, but I still won. Yay!

Next contest is revealed Saturday at Noon (GMT)—if you’ve got email alerts on, you’ll get a message shortly after it opens.

User profiles! 6 Mar

I plan to implement some sort of auto-spammer that says ‘the next contest has started!’ etc. In preperation, I’ve added the ability for users to edit their profiles to opt in or out of mails.

Buuugs! 5 Mar

Two bugs are currently poneing the site:
-FIXED – Colin can’t upload new images (Image filesize limit is 500kb, so images were correctly getting blocked, but incorrectly doing it silently)-
-FIXED – Cam got told that he’d already voted, straight after he voted. (turned out it was just a dodgy message, the vote still was being placed)-

I’ll get these fixed later hangs head in shame

On the plus side, we’ve got 10 members now. Rock on!

Welcome (and some bug squashing) 27 Feb

Hey folks, this page will be where I drop notes about future development, annoying bugs and other Contested things.

As always, catch me on IRC if you have any questions, an idea or something to add to the page. Cheers!

FYI, the section titled ‘Todo’ below will be the first port of call after killing any major bugs.

http://rogerwil.co.uk

Feedback
To send in feedback, drop an email to vexomu95@adonaldson.backpackit.com and I’ll pick it up once I can. Thanks!

Bug squashing:
Killing a few bugs (see below). Mostly minor, some pretty major (er, when you uploaded a photo, everyone could see it and delete it if they wanted to) which caused the show contest page to behave weirdly.