made my first commit today, will hopefully post live version soon
https://github.com/owenroberts/melon
so far i have users, posts, likes and started replies,
add user button and simulate button, will eventually automate those
thinking about other features like user profile images and posting media...
spent way too much time on generating and uploading user profile image today, ran into a crazy triangle of issues with image encoding, firebase uploading and python firebase documentation. gonna stop here with features and work on the simulation part for the next couple of days.
https://twitter.com/owenribbit/status/1357536911661928448?s=20
simulation is working now kind of a lot of performance issues are coming up, hoping to fix things up and be ready to deploy tomorrow.
https://twitter.com/owenribbit/status/1357804192375701504?s=20
the app is deployed: http://melon-chat.herokuapp.com/
i'll have to make an itch page for it to submit. ran into some issues while deploying, so kinda ran out of time for some other features that will have to go into an updated version of this later.
its simulating a social network, so its creating users and then having the users post, like and reply to one another's posts, and follow each other.
its hard to see it happening because its just like numbers changing and random posts appearing. i hoped to make some animations and organize the posts in something besides reverse chronological order so it was more obvious when things were changing, not sure i'll be able to do that before the deadline, but will probably add in a future version.
its also a bit sped up at the moment just it looks like its moving, but long term i plan to have it just sitting around and updating more slowly.
