A social media platform in which users may only post once a day.

BLINK - A social media platform in which users may only post once a day. This limited posting forces users to make their posts count. In addition, limited posting will result in a less saturated feed - highlighting what is important. Posts on BLINK can be scheduled for release. Ticking time bomb’ posts are designed to increase user engagement.

The BLINK project is hosted using eu.pythonanywhere.com

The app can also be run locally. Clone the repository, install the dependencies and then from the 'blink' directory run

python manage.py runserver

• python 3.10 (or above)
• django 2.1.5
• pillow 5.4.1
• bcrypt 4.1.2
• coverage 7.4.3
• requests 2.31.0

Install project depedencies from requirements file

pip install -r requirements.txt

The bcrypt package was used to hash passwords. Django's messsages framework was used to display success or error messages when a user tries to log in. Scss was used to more easily compile into CSS. Python's datetime library was used throughout for keeping track of various times.