The FearlessBlogging.com Blog

Taking a cute from too many Japanese animes, posts are now ranked as A++, B+, C, or D-.

The links to rate a post are on the bottom — presumably so people only vote AFTER they’ve read the post.

Posts should be rated on whether you’d recommend others to read them or not.

…yes, I’m really quite awful at web design in general. The backend stuff is cake, but I’ve always been hung up by developing graphically pleasing user interfaces.

Ive you’ve got any suggestions for the site, feel free to drop me a line and let me know what a horrible experience you had and how I can fix it.

Features that will be coming in the next week or 2 (hopefully):

• Entry rating: 1-5 stars based on how interesting an article is.
• Post tagging
  • Preferably an auto-generated tag cloud based on the content of the post — people abuse the hell out of YouTube’s tagging feature, trying to avoid that here.
• Autosaving posts.
• A few minor improvements to enhance the usefulness of the site.

Features that are still up in the air

• Trackbacks.
  • They seem useful for some occasions - but they can also be easily abused. Will have to put more thought into it.

Feel free to suggest more features by mailing me or responding to this post.

This is what’s called a “soft launch” I think — wouldn’t know, since I don’t do this for a living or anything, but I’ve seen the phrase mentioned on Techcrunch a couple of times.

FearlessBlogging.com is still work in progress even as I write, but it feels good to have the site up and exposed to the Internets in general. The site is empty as I write this, but that will probably change in a few days as my peers find out about the site and immediately start abusing it.

For the tech-heads out there wondering, this is yet another wonderful Ruby on Rails website.