I hope it will make things easier, or at least would server as a collection of code snippets "how to" :-) Let me know if you have any questions, or would like to have something beyond what you see there. Feel free to email me (http://alexeypro.com) or just simply contribute to the project.
Thanks!
Really not interested in having to put my sexual and relationship ideals up on facebook where friends and family can see them... Facebook is where I go to talk to people I do not want knowing a lot about my personal life.
Very good point. In addition, so many things cannot be represented digitally in dating/flirting. So much body language and unspoken signals go into reading of interest and intrigue between two people. Albeit my knowledge of dating sites are limited, it would seem being able to replicate unspoken communication is nearly impossible, especially when people are represented as images and text. Sorry for no citations, just a personal opinion based off of my history of reading a limited number of psych and body language books
This isn't how it works - it connects with Facebook so it can filter out your Facebook friends - the whole idea is that only new people who you don't know can see that you're single and looking to connect.
This app connects to my facebook to check my friends and stuff, then I tell this app the stuff I am into sexually and romantically, and then it connects me to others on facebook who have the same interests, I get that. But the simple fact is, well, keep my romantic life out of my social life.
If I want my romantic life and social life to intermix that will be my decision, not that of some webapp. There is a reason Dating Sites exist separated from Social Sites, and it is not because no one has thought of the idea before.
Personal Preference: Ne'er the twain shall meet.
Just to be clear, it is a good idea, but I personally would not trust that small a level of separation between social and romantic life. There may be a market in it, I am not a member of that demographic.
Using the advice of this site I signed up for an empire hosting account.
Selected the server and options I wanted, submitted my billing information and got four emails welcoming me and informing me that my account had been created.
Logged into the back end to be informed that my ip address had been baned and I could not access the system.
Contacted support via the live support widget and was informed that to be able to access my system I would have to disconnect from the proxy I was using and use the ip address my ISP provided.
The proxy I was connected through is a linode server that I run and manage, the proxy connection was an SSH Dynamic proxy because I was sitting in a coffee shop.
When I am using public wifi I secure my connection over SSH and route all my browser data through that secure link.
Because I control both ends of the link (my laptop and the 'proxy') I trust that connection more then I do the owners of a wifi hotspot.
I was informed that I would be unable to use the empire hosting account I created unless I direct connected.
Canceled order.
I will stick with Linode, which has NEVER given me a single issue and whos service seems better.
edited to add With them being nice enough to send me back my password in clear text I am glad I used the ssh proxy.
Hmm, thanks for the warning. I have a forwarding proxy set up for the exact same reason as you. It wouldn't have crossed my mind that I couldn't use it.
