Finally, a web community I can really relate to

bubblenut

If you like the odd drink then check out Extratasty.

It's still in it's infancy (615 members when I joined) so there's still quite a few rough edges. Many of the advertised features aren't there at all which is a little annoying. That said it's a wonderfull idea and I think, once it's all working and the community's a little larger, it's going to be really quite usefull for parties (or lonley nights) and lots of fun besides.

There's a couple of points I'd like to make here, aside from the site and concept itself. Firstly, the company which created extratasty, Skinnycorp, is one which I'd not heard of before but I'm definately going to keep my eye on it. Their concepts on community driven retail sites are amazing, check out the "other ideas" section. The other point I'd like to make was turned up by doing a quick view source. These guys are using the prototype javascript framework along with the scriptaculous effects framework. I have been seeing more and more of these (especially prototype) being used recently and have been using them myself (especially prototype). I know that this isn't a WebDev forum but Ajax is becoming an important part of all of our lives and if you haven't taken the time to check out the offerings in javascript frameworks prehapse it's time you should. Another one woth a look in (although I've done no more than a quick play with it) is Dojo.

thorpe

Hehe. That whole site is done using the symfony framework by the look of it.

Check this out. You can build a site just like it in 24 days.

vaaaska

Bub...join us over at YayHooray - a SkinnyCorp thing and pretty cool/crazy. Plenty of design/dev discussions and insanity.

My username is the same over there...although I don't really say so much...

tekky

bubblenut wrote:
.....Another one woth a look in (although I've done no more than a quick play with it) is Dojo.

I've actually been working with DOJO, helping bug find, and offering ideas for the past few months... I've also checked out a few of the above, and one thing that I've liked about DOJO... quick responses to bugs, if they are missing a feature that could benefit the project, they often add it the day after you request it, they name space everything so you can combine their toolkit with just about any other w/o collisions. And they are almost all professional javascript/dhtml programmers that do this stuff for a living as well. They are definately doing big things with javascript these days. I'd recommend you checking it out as well.

There is also MochiKit which wasnt mentioned, another toolkit, and the creator of it has given DOJO permission to use anything from his toolkit, so I'm expecting they will eventually merge... but that remains to be seen.