Monday Morning Repost
The site is still a work in progress but overall feedback is good and we’re at 110 members and counting right now. There are still conversations to be had around final setup on the site, but aside from an occasional glitch when registering (refresh and try again usually works) it’s been running well after a server upgrade last night.
I am still changing settings and tweaking things as we go along so it will occasionally go down for a minute or two or things change.
Thanks to everyone for checking it out and providing feedback. I’m very happy with everything so far!
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Afternoon Oppos!
Out impending doom has an awful lot of us panicking as Oppo is truly the greatest place on the internet and will be truly missed.
I know a lot of folks have moved to DriveTribe, but I also know a fair bit don’t love the platform, especially the crappy experience on mobile.
The last couple days I’ve been working on an alternative. It’s a form, but the experience is a good deal like Kinja when using it. There are some quirks and it is an ever-expanding project at the moment. If you’re interested take a look at it. This was going to be more of a how-to post, but I don’t have time for that so here’s a very brief introduction.
There are a few things that don’t work at the moment like email from the forum, and there are no registration challenges (to prevent spam) but it’s a solid functioning system at the moment. I’ve been working with several on the Discord to tweak things and it’s been great having their help (calling out MM54, rallydarkstrike, sn4cktimes, 4x98 and jb boin in particular).
At the moment it is running on a tiny AWS server so if more than a couple dozen users hit it, she will likely slow to a crawl. If we want to keep growing this I’ll redo the infrastructure to make it more scalable.
I don’t know if this is the next form of Oppo, but it does seem to fix some of the things we didn’t like about Kinja, as well as some of the things we don’t like about DriveTribe. It doesn’t look as good as DT though.
If you want to explore it create an account and start poking around. Let me know feedback, and I’ll see what I can do. This is still in Alpha for sure so it will go down periodically as I make adjustments/upgrades and the look will also be updated periodically.
The view now is set to recent posts (like Kinja feed) instead of categories, but there’s a categories button in the header which takes you to that familiar forum feel.
The last thing I want to do is fragment Kinja, this is just an option for us. If it doesn’t hit a critical mass of Opponauts I’ll shut it down to prevent a splinter Kinja (like FB kind of is).
Let’s all get through this together Oppo!
Update: RallyDarkStrike made an example post with a bunch of formatting changes and features here
There’s also a long form post by skyfire77
http://opposite-lock.com/topic/16/test-flight
You can view all of these without creating an account or logging in.