jackfranklin

Agreed - going to add some system to enable people to flag entries as spam, at which point they will be removed and undergo moderation.

Yup - spotted and deleted that one.

I think we need some form of being able to flag an entry as spam, and it going into moderation when that happens.

In fact, you don't even have to allow delete - you can just let the users 'hide' them. That way, if I want to offer the same swap, I can just 'unhide' it. :-)

Yes - there is already a flag for this in the model, but the functionality on the front-end to mark it as complete didn't get finished (yet).

The entire source code is on my GitHub account: https://github.com/jackfranklin/skillswap

It uses the free Heroku instance with the free MongoHQ addon. That way if the site failed completely I wouldn't be out of pocket! If it keeps being used we'll either stump up some cash for Heroku or look at other hosting options. For now the free Heroku is fine, and the free MongoHQ addon still has enough space, particularly as we're storing so little.

There's no Ember or any similar framework, just a bit of jQuery that does the search filtering (which I want to improve - the entire site is a result of a 3-4 hour hack yesterday, plenty can be improved upon).

It's a small Ruby app that uses Sinatra, with Mongoid my gem of choice for talking to MongoDB. Uses the omniauth gem to authenticate with Twitter, and that's about it. Dead simple :)

Thanks - that one is absolutely on our list.

Do you know how we would go about doing it? (That's not a snarky Q - I genuinely don't know!). I too would love to but I'm unsure as to how to reliably do it - and in the mean time gender-neutral was a safer bet.

Thank you :)

Not currently, no. Twitter seems like the perfect way to allow people using the site to connect and get learning.

Good spot, thank you. Will add it to the list.

Currently it's on Heroku, using the free instance and the MongoHQ addon. Find it perfect for little side projects like this, especially when launching at first to see if the idea is any good or not.

Thanks! The idea was to keep it stupidly simple, and not limit what people could ask for / search for. Had a couple of people ask if non web dev topics were allowed - to which my reply was "of course!"

As another example, the app behind what powers the Design Principles, which is what this post links to, is here: https://github.com/alphagov/design-principles.

They are indeed Government sites! GOV.UK itself is looked after by the Government Digital Service (GDS). A brief history is available on the GDS blog: http://digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/about/. It's also different in that it's coded in the open. Most of the code behind GOV.UK is on public Github repositories: https://github.com/alphagov.

Hey,

Thank you so much for this. I've no idea why I didn't think of this initially - but I've now rewritten the plugin to do this instead. Hope you like it - and thanks again!

Jack

I modelled it off the way CodeIgniter validations as I always liked how they worked - but thinking about it this is a great idea - going to make this change sometime soon :)

Thanks!

Thanks! There is still plenty I'd like to do and improve on, still early days, but I hope it's useful :)