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Should avoid people entering their own quotes, like this: http://www.naskewrimo.org/profiles/review/160

The site uses a lot of big queries where the results don't change too often, using Cake's cache system would speed it up quite a bit.

Pick a max-width that looks good, so text pages like "About" don't end up with crazy long lines

Don't show the year links at the bottom of a user's page unless they have written at least one sketch.

Simple stats page. Possible things to display:

• Sketch Links: count by domain
• Sketch Titles: length, word frequency
• Post times: count by hour of day

Add a checkbox on profile page to let user (un)subscribe to mailing list.

When pref changes, pass along to mailchimp via API, but store also in DB in case that fails. Also provide a way to sync that status later.

http://apidocs.mailchimp.com/api/1.3/

Consider using MC to send passcode mail.

Make a test script that uses Apache's single process mode to run the server on localhost:3000

No tag in Atom format; set cache control headers to make Max-Age 1 hour

Instead of one feed item per sketch, create a feed with one item per hour, with all the sketches posted in that hour.

A sketch posted at 7:55 will not appear in the feed until 8:00, when the 7:00-8:00 feed item is generated.

Write code so that increment can be adjusted from hour to half hour or whatever.

If no sketches were posted, don't generate a feed item.

In August the front page should be cleared of last year's stuff and just encourage people to sign up. To avoid confusion about whether the site needs updating.

Old to do list item. Not sure about it, but should test and be sure.

1. Remove links to Blogspot blog in favor of Tumblr.
2. Use new Zazzle store link

Let people put a geographic location on their profile, so people can find each other, stats by city, etc.

How to represent location? Zip code? Text field? Lat/Long?

Site currently uses Cake default.

A page that for each year, displays:

• number of writers
• number of sketches written
• number of writers who made it to 30

The year with the most of each will be identified, and the current year can be displayed in terms of progress to matching/beating that record.

Add line-height attribute to CSS, make it nice like the rest of the sketch item lists.

Currently all timezones are stored in America/New_York, including in the database. Not cool.

Database data should be updated to convert to store everything in UTC.
Code should be updated to convert from the user's local time zone, selectable on log-in.
Month start/end (for queries) should be figured based on earliest September 1 to latest October 1.

This work should be done in any month EXCEPT September.

Trim surrounding whitespace from: sketch title, link, profile name, link.

(also clean up existing database)

This person has a bunch of sketches that appear to point to Gmail.

1. Reject these URLs when submitting sketches.
2. One-time: clean them from the database.
3. One-time: email affected users and offer to update URLs manually.

on header or footer

Link http://www.facebook.com/groups/164102783670691/

On every page, username links to profile page. On profile page, it links to homepage.

Put the link on a line by itself. (Also, compare outlink analytics before and after.)

Make the home page look nice on iPhone.

Used to be issue #14.

Goals:

• Limit this to an alternate stylesheet, don't make any changes to the code.
• Display is most important; adding new sketches from the phone is less important.

Display as:

3 sketches: name, name, name
2 sketches: name, name

Instead of the list we have now.

Show progress from 1-30 graphically

If the year is over, "None yet." should simply be "None written."

Right now they are not, which is weird. Clicking should act the same as clicking on a user name.

Unless they are on a whitelist, links should be rel="nofollow" to avoid spammer abuse.

See http://www.naskewrimo.org/profiles/review/344 for an example (Chrome 14, OSX Lion)

This also affects the home page.

Because of the line-height trick used to make them look nice. Probably best to use overflow: something; to prevent that.

Use JavaScript stuff from benzado.com

On page header or footer.

Could sign in with Twitter, Facebook, or Open ID. Any benefit? Any drawbacks?

Page says:

A gallery of the 73 writers who participated in 2011.

For the current year in September, it should say:

A gallery of the 73 writers participating in 2011.

Make sure it starts with http:// or https://

Consider adding Like buttons to sketches, but only AFTER September is over. We want to discourage criticism (any kind) during the month.

Could use FB buttons or a custom system.