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| Topic: Dating and Social Website Like Mingle... | |
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Well now that I'm not working a regular 9 to 5 job, I'm finding I have lots of free time...
I'd like to use the free time to create a website like Mingle or Tagged or Badoo, rather than just cabbaging watching TV... Since I cannot afford to fork out thousands of dollars, I'll be doing all the work myself (fingers crossed 🤞 lol  )...
I note too that website design has come a long way from html 3.0 which is when I first started learning about the subject... When I get stuck, I'm hoping to ask the professionals in the community to guide me, by way of questions lol... Naturally I'll also be using Google and w3schools.com for research as well... My first question is If you were designing a dating/social website, what key features would you have? Currently I have shortlisted 1 - Public Chat Rooms (like tagged.com before it was removed) 2 - Public Forums (bulletin board) 3 - Direct Messaging (the email feature) Currently I have avoided 1 - Member Blogs (blogs/blogs leave it to the pros) Thinking about adding 1 - Music playlists (only playing YouTube videos of the members favourite tracks) |
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A way to vett the members to ensure that they are what they say they are. That should require a minimum amount to sign up so that scammers would go broke making their hundreds of profiles like on here and other sites.
Software should automatically check for certain conditions that are obvious frauds such as a 20 year old 2000 miles away wanting a relationship with a man 60 years old that has never said boo to her. Grammar checker to catch the obvious frauds from overseas that have horrid grammar and flag them for more review. Admins that listen to members and actually investigate fraud reports. I could go for days since everything is what I have mentioned on here before and they ignore every bit of it. Look what it has lead to |
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A way to vett the members to ensure that they are what they say they are. That should require a minimum amount to sign up so that scammers would go broke making their hundreds of profiles like on here and other sites. Software should automatically check for certain conditions that are obvious frauds such as a 20 year old 2000 miles away wanting a relationship with a man 60 years old that has never said boo to her. Grammar checker to catch the obvious frauds from overseas that have horrid grammar and flag them for more review. Admins that listen to members and actually investigate fraud reports. I could go for days since everything is what I have mentioned on here before and they ignore every bit of it. Look what it has lead to Thank you very much for all the solid pointers... 1) I guess that vetting members is straight forward... 2) Charging a registration fee sounds like a super idea, and although I had intended to make registration free, maybe I could charge a nominal fee for registration, and make that fee refundable upon the member leaving the website, without breaching the terms and conditions of use... 3) Checking the email sender/recipient age difference, distances and even length of membership could help in diminishing unwanted messages... 4) Grammar has never been my strong point, but maybe I can get help with this... 5) Moderators to listen to customer queries and complaints is a must, and I envisage they would be a volunteers, voted into position by the website members... Well, I've noted all the good advice and hope to work on all of those things after the first beta test, I'm still in the sign process right now and working on the chatroom and forums... Hopefully I'll be able to post links to a live preview in about a months time... |
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5) Moderators to listen to customer queries and complaints is a must, and I envisage they would be a volunteers, voted into position by the website members
One of the main issues I have had on here when I was sign out was though a reset password option was available it didn't work. Nothing was sending to my inbox. Password couldn't be reset automatically or manually. Had to create a new account. That can be discouraging to some folks. |
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5) Moderators to listen to customer queries and complaints is a must, and I envisage they would be a volunteers, voted into position by the website members One of the main issues I have had on here when I was sign out was though a reset password option was available it didn't work. Nothing was sending to my inbox. Password couldn't be reset automatically or manually. Had to create a new account. That can be discouraging to some folks. Hi Slimme, Thank you for sharing your experience with regards to resetting your password... As far as I know (and I could be wrong oops) the modern trend of user account identity and authorisation is one where the password cannot be reset. Instead a link is sent to the REGISTERED email address on the system databanks, which should resolve problems such as the one you suffered. And generally, a customer / member / website user would be expected to email the customer support department to notify the website that the user has changed their email address, and the customer may be asked some further questions to ascertain that they are indeed the genuine account owner. And once the checks are completed and authenticity of the account holder is confirmed, then the REGISTERED email address would be updated on the system databanks. I would think also, that if genuine ownership of the account is not possible then the person (you/me/any registered member) would be forced to create a new account, I understand it's not the best solution, but without satisfactory results in the further communication between the account holder and the customer service staff, one cannot be sure that the person is the genuine account owner. What are you're thoughts on the above? |
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