Ruxton
10-05-2010, 01:28 PM
Been toying with this little problem in my head for weeks without coming to a solution i'm entirely happily with, so I thought i'd echo it out to you guys and see if you have any thoughts.
First some links:
http://www.wantsi.com - General Site
http://www.wantsi.com/users/Ruxton - My User Profile/Wishlist
http://www.wantsi.com/users/Ruxton/lists/2 - Entire Wishlist
I'm working on a wishlist website, Wantsi started out as a completely different idea for a wishlist that I've stripped back to a more personal style for myself (and others if you want to sign up). So the basic premise is you build a list of stuff that you want people to buy for you (gift ideas, etc.) from URLs or just via manual entry, that's all fine I don't think i have any major problems here.
However, i think it'd be nice if someone could come along and say "I'm gonna buy that for Mr Ruxton and send it to him" without any kind of interaction from me; While still having some kind of security/transparency (ie. after X days of me not marking it off received it returns to the list or i can just return it cos the "buyer" looks spammy). The issue here is that I can see incoming gifts, so I figured 15 days either side of your set birthday, you cannot change your birthday or see incoming gifts.
I toyed with many ways to approach it and felt that if you weren't a registered logged in Wantsi user i could piss around with Facebook connect *groan* but then there's still a bunch of people who can't login. I settled on the idea of making non logged in users supply an e-mail address to 'authenticate' (sends an auth link you click). You could also store a list of your friends adresses and if it doesn't match, it enters the 30 day bs.
The problem for me with this way is it's totally over complicating what i feel should be a very basic relationship, so I'm fishing for ideas on how others would handle such a situation.
First some links:
http://www.wantsi.com - General Site
http://www.wantsi.com/users/Ruxton - My User Profile/Wishlist
http://www.wantsi.com/users/Ruxton/lists/2 - Entire Wishlist
I'm working on a wishlist website, Wantsi started out as a completely different idea for a wishlist that I've stripped back to a more personal style for myself (and others if you want to sign up). So the basic premise is you build a list of stuff that you want people to buy for you (gift ideas, etc.) from URLs or just via manual entry, that's all fine I don't think i have any major problems here.
However, i think it'd be nice if someone could come along and say "I'm gonna buy that for Mr Ruxton and send it to him" without any kind of interaction from me; While still having some kind of security/transparency (ie. after X days of me not marking it off received it returns to the list or i can just return it cos the "buyer" looks spammy). The issue here is that I can see incoming gifts, so I figured 15 days either side of your set birthday, you cannot change your birthday or see incoming gifts.
I toyed with many ways to approach it and felt that if you weren't a registered logged in Wantsi user i could piss around with Facebook connect *groan* but then there's still a bunch of people who can't login. I settled on the idea of making non logged in users supply an e-mail address to 'authenticate' (sends an auth link you click). You could also store a list of your friends adresses and if it doesn't match, it enters the 30 day bs.
The problem for me with this way is it's totally over complicating what i feel should be a very basic relationship, so I'm fishing for ideas on how others would handle such a situation.