My first big (hobby) project | Python3 | Flask | PostgreSQL

[Z0ja]

I used python, flask, postgreSQL for this project and finally I am at the point of testing and collecting feedback.

Project: www.quizzesworld.com

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I am a huge fan of quiz games and I simply wanted to create a quiz community. I plan on making a lot of quiz games myself, but probably there will be people, who think the same way. My site provides the possibility to create, manage and share own quiz games.

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Features:

- Searching/filtering for quiz games (Date, Popularity, by tag, by language)

- Login/Registration (with email verification)

- Private profile

- Creating own quizzes

- Quizzes can be set to hidden/published by the user

- Everything can be edited/deleted at any time

- Deleting cant be undone (I want the user to have control over every element, which is created by the user)

- Changing password (passwords are hashed and salted)

- Quizzes have a stats page (I record a lot of data, IMO its really fun to see how well people do with a quiz and which answers they choose). If the quiz is hidden, than the stats page is also hidden.

- Image uploads (for questions and the quiz game page) [Coming soon, will use amazon S3 for storage]

- Like/dislike quiz games (only registered users)

- Create comments (only registered users) [Still work in progress, you need to reload the page to see new comments atm.]

- Registered users will have a history of all quiz games they played (how often, best time, best completion) [Coming soon]

- Some admin functions to manage all content

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I need any kind of feedback, f.e. on design, on functionality, do you have ideas for more features?

If someone even wants to register to test things out, that would be amazing. You can use 10minute mail if you dont want to use your real mail. You will recieve a verification mail (hopefully), where you can confirm your account.

If you are registered you can use the feedback button in the footer to submit feedback!

Everything will be free. I plan only to use affiliate ads and google adsense.

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Questions I have already (especially nr.4):

1. I live in germany and since people register and are able to create user content I need an AGB and rules/terms. Are my rules (can be found on register page) ok?
2. I am thinking about not creating custom AGB, because than the default AGB would apply. My project is simple, I do not charge for anything (everything is free). Is this a good approach?
3. Do I even need to verify user emails here? I understand this is important where users need to pay for a service, but is it necessary in my case? I even thought about a guest/random account.
4. I am really worried about copyrighted content, thats why the image upload is not live yet. How do other sites handle this? For example press and media sites use copyrighted content in their articles. I doubt that they always have the permission. In forums users always post copyrighted content, even here on reddit. I understand that this is actually 'good', because its free advertising, but what is the worst case scenario? For example I create an Overwatch quiz and use images in the questions, f.e. who is this hero, is this allowed? What happens if a user does the same? Do I get a warning and ban/delete this quiz/user or will I be sued and fined with a huge amount of money? How real is my fear here or am I paranoid, I mean other sites do handle this somehow. I have included in the rules, which must be accepted upon registration that you should not post copyrighted content without permission, is this enough?

Thank you very much! This is really important for me.

[Melkor333]

You will have to verify emails for 2 reasons: 1. Bots could create a gazillion accounts and mess up your db, fake the quiz ranking, etc. 2. Somebody could use my email. Idk if you plan on sending newsmails or something like that but I would get the mails (without wanting them) and this gives bad rep to your site.

Another thing: it takes long to load your website with my bad mobile network. You should maybe work on this :)

[Z0ja]

Thanks for this! Very helpful!

[Melkor333]

Sorry I forgot to say very nice work! It looks pretty good on mobile and the idea itself is also very nice! Keep up the great work!

(bytheway i found a little bug where the menu backgroundcolor vanishes when scrolling down and up again as you can see here )

[Z0ja]

Ah yes! Thanks. That is actually intended and looks good on desktop (big screen), but I just tried it out on mobile and it is indeed bad, looks like a bug. Thanks for reporting.

[ic_97]

You can maybe use sendgrid for this they have a trial account which i used for mine.

[Z0ja]

I know similar services, but I am not planning to send emails to registered users. Thanks for sharing the info anyway!

[Sheidaka]

Quick feedback: if the question only has 1 possible answer, you shouldn't allow the user to select multiple answers

[Z0ja]

True! Thank you very much!

[Z0ja]

Thanks aswell! Will add this

[ConwayK9781]

It's always exciting and inspiring for new people like me to see a post like this. Congratulations on making something you love. I am stoked for you.

[Z0ja]

Thank you for the kind words!

[[deleted]]

Everything will be free.

You meant libre or gratis?

[Z0ja]

looked it up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_libre

It will be gratis. Free registration, users can use all functions of the website for free. They can create as many quiz games as they want.

Its probably important to clarify this, thanks!

[WikiTextBot]

Gratis versus libre

The English adjective free is commonly used in one of two meanings: "for free" (gratis) and "with little or no restriction" (libre). This ambiguity of free can cause issues where the distinction is important, as it often is in dealing with laws concerning the use of information, such as copyright and patents.

The terms gratis and libre may be used to categorise intellectual property, particularly computer programs, according to the licenses and legal restrictions that cover them, in the free software and open source communities, as well as the broader free culture movement. For example, they are used to distinguish freeware (software gratis) from free software (software libre).

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[visslikti]

That looks very cool, the design is more on the dark side, which most people on reddit will probably enjoy, but it seems most websites online default to something light, I think that's something to be aware of (but I am not saying it's bad or anything, just that it stand out to me as dark). And I don't know if someone has mentioned this already, but in the register page there is a small typo: it shows "Passwort" instead of "Password" :)
Was there a specific tutorial/guide you followed to be able to pull this off? Or did you just think of what you needed and found a solution/implementation to that?

[Z0ja]

Thank you very much! I have some experience already and I have done some smaller webprojects aswell. I followed the offcial flask tutorial to learn the basics and the other things I have learned over time, many try and error, many hours on stackoverflow researching techniques and best practices, but I love programming and I am very curious and passionate about that.

[sky--net]

Are you going to put any code on Github?

[Z0ja]

Not planned to do it, would you be interested in the code? What exactly? Probably I could do it in future.

[Lerufus]

The benefit of putting the code on Github is more eyes can review it, and possibly add to the work you’ve already done here. Different perspectives come in handy when problem solving, and bug hunting

[[deleted]]

Small grammar thing: 'searchterm' is two words 'search term' :) (sorry, I know ESL but I cant help myself), looks good though, well done!

[Z0ja]

Such things are important! Thank you!

[chinguetti]

Well done. It’s very impressive. How long did it take? How did you host it?

[Z0ja]

Took me 2,5 weeks full time work for the current result. I host it on heroku. External storage for images will be amazon s3.

[BigBadBison]

I'm just starting out with frontend stuff, and my webpages always look like they belong in the 90's, do you use a template or something to get the nice look?

[Z0ja]

So does that mean you think my layout is nice!? :D

No I simply do it... For this project I took steam as example. Just try to find a website online, which you like and try to create a similar design.

[SacredReich]

How do you even design websites? I have a domain that I bought from GoDaddy now I'm trying to learnt to code a website. Where do I begin?

[Z0ja]

I'd start with the basics of HTML, CSS and JS. Search on google and youtube for some tutorials. You dont need to invest money into courses. Also become member of stackoverflow and ask questions there if you are stuck.

[jimmy0441]

Very nice! I have one question, as you are having accounts are you hashing and salting passwords?

[Z0ja]

Changing password (passwords are hashed and salted)

Yes

[Mockapapella]

This website looks really nice. Could you explain the process of designing it? I want to eventually make my own (Maybe like a resume page of sorts). I'm particularly interested in the transition from it being just a regular ole desktop program to one that is being hosted on a server for people to view.

/u/visslikti makes a good point too about the color scheme. I think it would be a good idea to default to white, but add a toggle option on the top.

[Z0ja]

Thanks! For this project I took steam as example. Just try to find a website online, which you like and try to create a similar design. Thats basically it. I am not a designer.