View attachment 2810 Hello, My name is Zeeraw and I run the application called Cloudsdale which you can find at http://www.cloudsdale.org Cloudsdale is the product of my devotion to the brony community. A web application where you can connect, communicate and share with fellow bronies in an intuitive way through a gorgeous user interface. Cloudsdale recently left it's alpha stage and is now ready for an open beta. My vision for Cloudsdale is that it should be the place where you as a brony; expose yourself to instant, live communication. Uploaded with ImageShack.us -- Detailed Description -- Cloudsdale builds upon two core functionalities; the Rain Drop and the Cloud. View attachment 2811 The Rain Drop is a representation of a path to certain things on the web, aka. URL. You post a URL on cloudsdale and it will create a visual representation of that URL. For example you post a youtube link it will automatically find the description, uploader, title and preview image for that clip and render appropriately. View attachment 2813 The Cloud is simply put a place where you scope your communication to a more specific topic, like a group of people, a project, a common interest or anything else you can think of. A cloud comes with two things; it's private "Dropzone" where you can drop url's related to the cloud and a chat room. The chat is available globally around the whole site and has a very smooth and fresh feel to it. Now what makes Cloudsdale a little different is that I'm working very hard on integrating the Rain Drops with the Cloud Chats and vice versa. Let's say you share something, the URL to a youtube clip in the chat it automatically transforms into a rain drop and put up on the corresponding chats Dropzone. -- Technical Specs -- Cloudsdale runs as a Ruby on Rails application backed up by Elastic Search, MongoDB, Redis and ImageMagick. The application runs on a solid cloud server cluster of 9 linux servers each dedicated to handle their part of the whole Cloudsdale process. If you want to know more contact me by email (included at the bottom) -- Development -- The development of Cloudsdale is very active and as a user of the application we at Cloudsdale take a lot of time to listen to your needs when it comes to your experience with the site and what features you might want to see in the future. Currently we're also looking for one or more Ruby developers to join the train and explore ways to expand the Cloudsdale network as well as provide a gorgeous application to our users. -- Contact -- You can find Cloudsdale at http://www.cloudsdale.org/ You can contact us through info@cloudsdale.org or me directly at zeeraw@cloudsdale.org Thank you for taking time reading this and I hope to see you around on Cloudsdale.
*looks at the site* It looks very nice but... I don't really know what to do with it... is it basically a kind of chat room?
You could say that. But what I've experienced while using chat applications around the web there's has been a redundant problem. Handling more chat rooms at once requires you to tab them up in different tabs. The one site I've seen which have handled issue fairly well is Facebook, but the problem with the Facebook chat is that Facebook is not built around the chat, the chat is built around Facebook. On Cloudsdale the transition between exploring the site while you continue chatting is seamless, I'm trying to erase the line between the content management and the instant messaging as well as giving the chat a lot more focus.
Very nice. I've never really been into the whole social networking thing, but I may give this a try. And could you post larger pictures? I'd like to see more of the features. And do you plan on using an encrypted connection? I tend to avoid sites that don't encrypt connections when logging in and whatnot.
I'm trying to get the SSL certificates sorted through my Company - Then I will have secure authentication for everypony, until then Facebook and Twitter auth is the best choice if you don't want to transfer passwords without SSL. Mind you I have taken care of encrypting the passwords with BCryp server side, so general storage of sensitive information is heavily guarded. I fixed the small pictures.
Ah ok, very nice. Just made an account. I love the interface, everything is so seamless. Fantastic for a beta.
Thank you, I really hope this will generate some activity. The more people that use the app, the more fun you have using it.
I'd be really happy if anyone would take their time to come with some Feedback on the app. There's been 200 new registrations the past 10 hours so it'd be interesting to see how people experience the site.
It seems pretty cool, But I'm getting this 'We're sorry, but something went wrong. We've been notified about this issue and we'll take a look at it shortly.' VERY often.
I'm getting at at 2 moments as far as I've seen: A. After using that 'connect to FB' button at the profile page B. While trying to 'join a cloud'.
Maybe, if it's the chat I'm reluctant to make any change as it is now. Javascript and time formatting is a pain especially if I need to make it conditional to settings. For the rest of the site I'm using "12 minutes ago" or "About two weeks ago" for everpony's pleasure. I'll add it to the todo though.
