I've been fixing little issues around registration and email for the past few days.

I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with Django. On the one hand, it is incredibly powerful and contains a ton of features, on the other hand, it ... err ... contains a ton of features. Sometimes I wis...
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Just as I've been preparing to do since yesterday, I've now posted Journeytopic Hackernews - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42277114

Hopefully I'll get a few people to stick with me through this bug-riddled early version.

I've worked on a few things since last time. But probably more important is that I've switched from Stimulus to AlpineJs as my primary Javascript library. I find that Alpine has a lot more capability without compromi...
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Month Update for November

I made Journeytopic public in the last week of November and shared it on Hackernews.

Stats: Active Monthly Users: 24 Target remaining: 9,976

December stats:

Active users: 397

Difference compared to November: +373

Target remaining: 9627

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I kinda find the traffic information for December surprising as I didn't share the platform. I have been very busy with a lot of othe...
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In the last few days I've made a lot of progress on things that should been done long ago:

• Registered users can now like Journeys, Updates, and comments.
• Registered users can now follow Journeys.

There are a lot of other tiny UI adjustments that I hope aren't n...
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Stats for January 2025 and February 2025

January active visitors - 113 (-284)

February active visitors - 53 (-60)

Now, this is more like what I would expect from a platform seeing little to no promotion. Over the new few weeks I'll be focused on integrating bot protection ac...
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