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15 February 2007

Anonymous Valentines update: I'll be turning off new messages tonight at midnight GMT (since I see some of you are still having fun with it), but you'll be able to view your messages until the end of the weekend. After that I'm going to clear the database, so if you want to save your messages, make sure you do it this weekend!→[More:]
Next year, RSS feeds and AJAX, omg.

post by: chrismear at: 09:51 | 10 comments

chrismear, you are awesome for putting this together, and so quickly. Thank you very, very much.

posted by mike9322 15 February | 10:01

Yeah, the quickly was most impressive. You mentioned 'framework' in the other thread...what is it? Rails?

Thanks again.

posted by danostuporstar 15 February | 10:04

Yup, Rails.

posted by chrismear 15 February | 10:18

Does it just have to be for valentines?
Couldn't we just have it like the secret note passer, since that what valentines are?
Whenever the occasion warrants it and you or whoever hosts it has the time and space, i guess.

posted by ethylene 15 February | 10:39

Chris - Thanks for that. I was pretty gobsmacked at how quickly you knocked it up. It was all kinds of awesome.

posted by seanyboy 15 February | 10:42

Drawing the heart was the hardest part. Writing the code was fun; I got to do lots of things like

valentine.sender = current_bunny

I am also impressed with how quickly UK domain registrations seem to work these days.

ethylene, I can host stuff like this very easily, so that's not a problem. I personally think if we did secret-note-passing too often it'd lose its novelty, and might descend into snark. Valentine's seems like just the right kind of occasion that encourages friendly anonymity.

posted by chrismear 15 February | 10:57

nice work chris, very slick.

i was going to rebuild metachat in rails but then my fingers fell off

posted by dodgygeezer 15 February | 11:30

Ok I totally missed the whole thing. Damn.

posted by chewatadistance 15 February | 12:51

There's still time!

posted by chrismear 15 February | 12:59

i've been posting probably unseen ones.

posted by ethylene 15 February | 13:06

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