Revisiting my own blog system on CampusFish

Today I reached the milestone I was hoping for in the revisions for CampusFish, my little blogging project. After a year, it has only made enough money to cover the SSL certificate, the domain name and some of the bank fees, but it's worth it because I use it. It's where I drop my F-bombs and frustrations on the world and talk about stuff that no one here would likely care about.

When I first launched the site, it was kind of limited because I was so geeked up about using the POP Forums class library to power it all. It still does most of the heavy lifting, but there are about a half-dozen or so data access methods now that do the rest.

It's a lot more simple than .Text in terms of the code base, but it basically does the same thing. There are some additional features like the photo galleries, a recent comments list for members, private messages, friends lists, profile photos, etc. Even prior to the revisions, it was apparently compelling enough for the small group of users, because they're very active with it. Some are having good times with the custom style sheet functionality.

The fun code exercise in this case was doing the trackback mechanism. It's pretty straight forward once you get your arms around the protocol. Granted, users can choose to disallow public comments entirely, so I don't know how much use that will get.

I've gotta come up with some more interesting style sheets for the users, but that will come in good time.

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