One of those words that, if you repeat it often enough, loses all meaning. Except that it didn't have a meaning to begin with.

Okay, so qwer.org has been live for a full 36 hours now, and I'm alreadey convinced that it will be a success, though I'm just as convinced that it badly needs some more functionality to be truly useful. Here are my thoughts so far in bulleted list form:

• Qwer isn't supposed to be secure. Someone mentioned that I could be sitting in my room, pouring over database contents, and that's absolutely true. Don't go putting things in qwer that you don't want people to see. "Security through obscurity isn't."
• I need to implement some measures to prevent the un-fun from going through and deleting everything interesting. To this end I'm toying with a few feature possibilities:
  • Passwords: NO memberships, but when you make/change a qwer page, you can optionally put in a password, which can be used with the features below.
  • Stay of Permenance: For N days (between 1 and 7) after a post is made, it can't be altered except by the password-holder. After that time passes, anyone can make a change, and even apply a new password, resetting the 'stay timer.' This would be a checkbox-able feature that the poster can choose to implement or ignore.
  • Ghost-town timer: After 7 days without anyone looking at a specific qwer page, it can float into the abyss.
• Searchable qwer pages: When you make/edit a page, you can mark it 'private' which would inhibit it from being included in searches. Otherwise, people could perform searches to find words or phrases throughout the qwer world.
• Recent qwer pages: A list of recently changed/created qwer pages that haven't been marked private (maybe 'invisible' is a better term?).
• Visit counters and timers: so you can see the number of visits, and the times since creation, etc.

These are still all in my head, but I think I'll implement them soon, to bring a little order to the anarchy.

Uh-oh. Train's coming up to Great America. I gotta go. Be sure to write if you have any cool ideas/complaints/whatever about qwer. Later!