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Introducing..Aspie Like Me - The social network for people on the spectrum

spektral

Aspie Like Me


Firstly I would like to say a quick Thank you to everyone that took part in the Aspie Like Me Beta trials. I had over 30 registered users in the end, some of you came for a quick look, some of you stuck around a while but it was all useful information for me to use in developing the live site.

So after some months I am ready to reveal the all new Aspie Like Me social network:
www.aspielikeme.co.uk

For those that havnt heard about it, Aspie Like Me is a social network dedicated to people that are on the spectrum. After being here for a number of months now and having spent a lot of time going around the internet looking for places to talk to other people on the spectrum, I found that there wasnt really anywhere that really took my interest. 90% of the sites are just forums in various guises which is pretty dated and linier.
It has been completely redesigned to be more user friendly and more modern, using a completely different web development platform. I have tried to include all the features people asked for and added a few more that I thought would be useful to people.

Some of the main new features include:
  • Totally redesigned system with a fresher look
  • The ability to create and manage your own personal blogging website within Aspie Like Me. You can choose from 20 themes with each one allowing for full customization.
  • A live chat room
  • Improved Events manager
  • Start your own Group with its own personal forum
  • The optional user map that shows every user on a google map (totally optional, it is off by default)
  • Extended profiles
All the original features are still there too
  • Completely Private (only registered users can view the website)
  • Fully customizable privacy settings
  • A sitewide forum
  • Members directory
  • Latest activity stream
  • Personal profile page

I invite you all to come and register on the new site and try it out for yourselves. Let me know what you think and if there is anything that you think would improve the site.

I look forward to seeing you all there!

Matt, aka Sp3ktral

now known as user Hububalli, fancied a bit of a change! :)

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  • It the internet in 2013, it is impossible to use the internet fully and not provide any personal information. Its hard to do anything online really without providing some personal details. The registration form is very minimal as I didnt want to force users to provide anything they didnt feel comfortable in writing. 

    I can assure you it is legimate and sincere.

    I think certain people and to a certain extent certain age groups have issues in providing e-mail addresses from my experience it is the minority. Of course I don't want to alienate anyone so this would have to be addressed.

    I don't understand why it is so bad to register my domain to my address? I dont have any need to hide it? Its my project and it belongs to me and in reference to what you said in the first post, it also helps cement the sites authentisity. It certain situations hiding behind an agent is in breach of the nominet (or relevant domain managment body) terms. Nominet provide the ability to hide your details for free depending on what your site is about.

    I don't feel it is fair to just show peoples activity on the website to entice others in, although it is good advertising, it is not fair on them unless they opted in to do so. I don't want to be like facebook and give everything away unless you tell the site not too.

    I will look at opening up some of the pages so people can view certain pages (list of groups for example) but not actually view the content. I think the blogs could be open by default.

    I think I will also redesign the front page to expand on what the site is about in more detail with images and examples.

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  • It the internet in 2013, it is impossible to use the internet fully and not provide any personal information. Its hard to do anything online really without providing some personal details. The registration form is very minimal as I didnt want to force users to provide anything they didnt feel comfortable in writing. 

    I can assure you it is legimate and sincere.

    I think certain people and to a certain extent certain age groups have issues in providing e-mail addresses from my experience it is the minority. Of course I don't want to alienate anyone so this would have to be addressed.

    I don't understand why it is so bad to register my domain to my address? I dont have any need to hide it? Its my project and it belongs to me and in reference to what you said in the first post, it also helps cement the sites authentisity. It certain situations hiding behind an agent is in breach of the nominet (or relevant domain managment body) terms. Nominet provide the ability to hide your details for free depending on what your site is about.

    I don't feel it is fair to just show peoples activity on the website to entice others in, although it is good advertising, it is not fair on them unless they opted in to do so. I don't want to be like facebook and give everything away unless you tell the site not too.

    I will look at opening up some of the pages so people can view certain pages (list of groups for example) but not actually view the content. I think the blogs could be open by default.

    I think I will also redesign the front page to expand on what the site is about in more detail with images and examples.

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