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 Candle 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 burns 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. If a Fire has gained 10,000 or more Heat points it becomes "Infernal" and gets added to another page of the hottest topics on OwlFuse. Fires that lose too many Heat points and wind up at zero are Snuffed Out* or deleted. Once a post becomes Infernal (10,000 or more heat points) it can no longer be Snuffed Out and can be viewed on a separate page of the hottest topics in 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 sign up with an email address, a password, a confirm password and their username. Users sign in with just their email address and password. If a user forgets their password they can reset it via an email link.