A social media application for night owls
An idea that started with my capstone project known as Owull has evolved into a bigger idea with a new name that is spelled exactly how it sounds.
It is a social media application for Night Owls. It will incorporate all the functionality of Owull in regards to the Karaoke Lists, Drink Recipes, and Randomizer Buttons but also adds the ability to have a User Profile complete with user images, posts, likes and dislikes, comments, notifications and more.
The theme of the content involves the concept of "Sparks" which are the posts users create to "spark an interest" in their fellow owls. Users can "light" a spark which any user can then see on their home page in descending order of when the spark was "lit" or posted. Users then have the ability to "Add Heat" or "Remove Heat" from a spark, similar to like or dislike a post with the subtle difference that a user can gain heat. A spark with heat of 100 or more heat points becomes a "Fire" which can potentially become "Infernal" if it gains enough Heat and "Stokes". Stokes are the comments on a post. If a Spark has turned into a Fire every new Stoke adds to the heat count as well. Fires that lose too many Heat points and wind up at zero are Snuffed Out* or deleted. Sparks that go "Infernal" are added to the top of every user's home page in descending order of most heat points.
Notifications about Heat and Stokes come in the form of "Sizzles", which is just a name that fits with the Heat theme.
Users choose a username or "alias" as soon as they sign up and it becomes their permanent identity on OwlFuse.
Users sign up with an email address, a password, a confirm password and their alias. Users sign in with just their email address and password. If a user forgets their password they can reset it via an email link.
A user's alias becomes their "clozang" as well with a closing angle bracket prepended to the beginning, all letters transformed to lowercase, and every space replaced with a dash. for example: "Rusty Hoppins" becomes ">rusty-hoppins". If a user's clozang is added to the end of "owlfuse.com/" it will directly link to that user's page.