Add "Dance card full" option to hide someone for a few months

[cowboy]

You've probably seen the phrase my dance card is currently full in a number of profiles.

Well, it might be nice to have an option to disable / hide someone temporarily, perhaps un-hiding them after a few months. Because you don't necessarily want to perma-hide them.

[benjaffe]

I love it! "Hide for: ", then you click it and it prompts you for a number of days or months. Just a note, if you clear cache at all (even just for the last hour) in Chrome, it kills localStorage stuff. I'm thinking about employing a server to store things more permanently. If anyone knows of a service that's cheap or free and easy to set up, let me know. I'm not very active in the back-end world.

[chenasraf]

Hey, I have a relatively simple shared server, which should be more than enough for authentication and settings storage. I also do some backend stuff at work so I can be really helpful IMO. (we talked on Reddit btw)

[benjaffe]

@chenasraf Cool! The dance card full option would be pretty easy to keep in the local data store, so I'll go with that option. But there are definitely some other features that could make use of a server. And I do front-end, not really backend, so yeah, I'd love to have your help with any part of the project. Do you have any ideas about how you can fit in or what you can work on? Any features or suggestions you'd like to add, or help with? :)

[sapid]

Is there some key that could be used in the local Chrome environment to encrypt that data before it was sent to the shared server?

[benjaffe]

@sapid I'm not going with a server option for a few reasons -- mainly that I don't want to piss off OkC by scraping and storing any data about their users, and I also want to respect users' privacy. But if I went with a server option in the future, I'd definitely want to encrypt the data :)

[Wyrdbyrd]

I like this idea, too!