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Congratulations, they invented the BBS !

Interestingly, I've been trying to find time to start an IBM Domino based BBS for my neighborhood. Yes, I started an i-neighbors thingy, but it would still be cool to have our own local site. (rembering the good 'ol days of 300 baud dialup :)

Fine? Try these:

Select a calendar week view.

You get: Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in F:\ineighbors\calendar\weekview.php on line 6

"F:" -- running on IIS. That explains a lot.

Click a date to add an event.

You've clicked the date you want already -- but what's that? Add an event gives you some lovely drop-downs without defaulting to the day you clicked: Date: [Month] [Day]

Sign up for an account. Fill in all the form fields. Choose username "randy". Submit. Aren't you thrilled that you get to go "back" in "your browser" to an empty set of fields and fill them in all over again while you guess another, probably used, name? Want suggested available similar names? Not here. Sorry.

I could go on. Seriously. But the point is the grandparent is right -- this is sloppy code and a painful user interface. It fail's to deliver what most orkut/friendster users would consider the minimum functionality.

Which means it will be wildly successful ;)

Fine? Try these:

Select a calendar week view.

You get: Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in F:\ineighbors\calendar\weekview.php on line 6

"F:" -- running on IIS. That explains a lot.

Click a date to add an event.

You've clicked the date you want already -- but what's that? Add an event gives you some lovely drop-downs without defaulting to the day you clicked: Date: [Month] [Day]

Sign up for an account. Fill in all the form fields. Choose username "randy". Submit. Aren't you thrilled that you get to go "back" in "your browser" to an empty set of fields and fill them in all over again while you guess another, probably used, name? Want suggested available similar names? Not here. Sorry.

I could go on. Seriously. But the point is the grandparent is right -- this is sloppy code and a painful user interface. It fail's to deliver what most orkut/friendster users would consider the minimum functionality.

Which means it will be wildly successful ;)

Fine? Try these:

Select a calendar week view.

You get: Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in F:\ineighbors\calendar\weekview.php on line 6

"F:" -- running on IIS. That explains a lot.

Click a date to add an event.

You've clicked the date you want already -- but what's that? Add an event gives you some lovely drop-downs without defaulting to the day you clicked: Date: [Month] [Day]

Sign up for an account. Fill in all the form fields. Choose username "randy". Submit. Aren't you thrilled that you get to go "back" in "your browser" to an empty set of fields and fill them in all over again while you guess another, probably used, name? Want suggested available similar names? Not here. Sorry.

I could go on. Seriously. But the point is the grandparent is right -- this is sloppy code and a painful user interface. It fail's to deliver what most orkut/friendster users would consider the minimum functionality.

Which means it will be wildly successful ;)

I seem to be the first person to join I-Neighbors from this neighborhood. As such, I'm the "founder": my description of the neighborhood and its boundaries is official, and changes can't be made without my permission. What if I go mad with power?

I'd say there are a fair number of listings for a site that has been up one week.
http://i-neighbors.org/usa.php?rank=state