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I wrote a simple "disaster-ready[1]" site for physical distancing, called the virtual bulletin board system. It is currently in operation in my city but nobody uses it. I tried to get it off the ground but I'm not really sure how to do it.

Basically, I think of it as a "geowiki" - a wiki where each entry has an address and a lat/lng associated with it. Here's a screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/RiCiuDi.png

I went on the radio on a call-in show, I advertised it on the local city Reddit and their discord server, but it didn't catch on - at all. Except for a couple of vandals who deleted all the entries :)

It was fun, but it would have been a lot more fun if people had actually used it. I still might try to get it off the ground again, but I don't know how off the top of my head.

[1] What does disaster ready mean? It means that the site uses very little resources for the browsing operation. It is all static HTML/JS/CSS and uses cgi-bin (!) for the admin side/adding a new listing.



link please?!


I'll shoot you an email, since you've got your email in your profile :)




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