epochwolf

No, it's not a dating site. It's a place for people to post stories. This is what I wrote on my blog: I created Singleforest.com to solve a problem that has long bothered me. Places like deviantArt are just not made for posting literature. Literature is listed and categorized in a way that makes it difficult for members to find an audience and for visitors to find stuff that they like. Singleforest is designed to address this in two ways. First, there is no visual artwork on the site. Literature should not have to compete with visual art. Visual art has a very low barrier to entry when it comes to enjoyment. It takes very little time to b

This feature took about 3 days of work to finish to my satisfaction. A large majority of my time is taken up by security and styling. Security is critical to a website. When you are writing software that runs on someone's machine, you don't have to think about security nearly as much. (Unless it connects to other software.) Every action: viewing, creating, updating, and deleting, needs to be checked to verify only an authorized user can do them otherwise people could run around reading and deleting other user's messages. I also have to prevent people from doing more malicious things like trying to reply to messages that aren't theirs. These

No it's not a dating site. It's actually a website for posting stories. Like people post artwork and literature on deviantArt, singleforest.com will be a place for just posting literature. I started thinking about making my own website for a few years ago after leaving my brief post as a moderator on storm-artists.net. The way literature is presented on storm-artists.net (and deviantArt at the time) left me very dissatisfied.  Displaying a picture to represent literature didn't make sense to me. Literature is written, not drawn. Asking a person who is primarily a writer and not a drawer to represent their work as a image is unfair and somew