LOL.com has stayed in roughly the exact same form since early March 2006 (we won’t talk about its form prior to that). But the last few months it has been undergoing a complete rewrite from scratch in Ruby on Rails. This is a big discovery process for me and for Don as we’ve both been using Java since late 2000 and C++ and Visual Basic before that. This weblog is a chance to talk about building the new version, rolling it out so everybody can use it, and the process of change that it will go through as we try to make it a destination for all things funny.
I won’t give a date for when we plan to roll out the new version except to say that I’ve made a lot of progress in the last month. Here’s what you can expect from the next release:
- The ability to have your own login.
- The ability to enter your own jokes into the interface and tell whether others liked them, didn’t like them, etc.
- Voting on other people’s jokes.
- Searching to find jokes.
- Tagging of jokes (simple at first, but more sophisticated later).
- Updates to the site. There’s no way it will sit untouched for a year this time. The first year was an experiment to see if it even made sense to use the domain rather than just sell it to the highest bidder.
February 25, 2007 at 7:35 pm |
Holla. I like LOL.com
February 25, 2007 at 7:35 pm |
But it needs more jokes.
February 26, 2007 at 7:59 am |
Oh, how true how true. That’s what we’re hoping to get from allowing anybody and everybody to submit them.
There will be filtering behind the scenes to remove the hatefully racist, sick jokes, etc. that we sometimes get submitted to us now via email. At the same time we’ll be shooting to not sanitize everything down to a level where only a five year old is entertained. Hopefully we can strike a happy medium somewhere.
April 7, 2007 at 3:34 pm |
i have read all the jokes on your page at least ten times i have submitted some as well cant wait til it is updated