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Fuck Orbital

An officially unofficial CP3108B ("Orbital") project that meets the intermediate level of achievement, completed in one day.

Goal statement: Create a website where users can say 'fuck you' to Orbital anonymously.

What is this really?

It is, in no particular order a/an-

app that allows users to post messages anonymously while still maintaining control over them without having to sign up
means to vent my frustration at the Orbital module
experiment to see how much work I can be done in one day
attempt to use a new authentication method that is more frictionless than traditional username + email
way to satisfy my inner twelve year-old, who still finds saying the F-word as many times as possible funny (see: App\Fuck and App\Http\Controllers\FuckController)
demo project for Orbital, since it does satisfy all project (though not module) requirements of an intermediate level Orbital project - that is, it implements CRUD on a novel stack and utilizes authentication, admin panel, emails and an API
demonstration of how trivial Orbital projects are, even at the 'intermediate' level of achievement (though this is not an attempt at trivializing the module - learning programming is hard, I know, but rather hopefully to inspire actual Orbital projects to be more ambitious)

Why?

Because Fuck Orbital

But seriously, why?

Because I'm probably the only person to have ever failed a module before even taking it. After talking to more than two dozen people and not even coming close to finding a partner I realized I ran out of fucks to give. This 'project' was started as a way to vent, because the entire experience has been horribly frustrating from start to finish.

With apologies to Professor Krugman - while the project's goal is farcical, the implementation does attempt to follow industry best practices and uses the same tools professionals do. This project, then, is a serious implementation of a ridiculous idea, which is of course the opposite of what is usual in Orbital.

Design Considerations

Users will be authenticated via email. This will allow Fucks to be modified after they are posted via a token sent to their emails. This keeps user authentication frictionless while still maintaining acceptable levels of security and anonymity
Names can be attached to Fucks, but kept optional to maintain anonymity
An API will be provided to allow Fucks to be consumed by other web applications, at least the ones who wants to give a fuck.

User workflow

User enters Fuck, name (optional) and email.
Email is sent to user to verify that they want to post the Fuck with a link with a confirmation token
- Tokens expire after 30 min
If the user wants to edit the message, a button on the Fuck will send them a new token that will allow them to do this

Timeline

Timings are rough. I didn't really use git properly, which is still better than my usual approach of not using git at all for personal projects.

9.30am: Initiate project, first commit
12pm: Creation, retrieval of fucks done
2.30pm: Editing of fucks and UI done
3.45pm: CRUD of fucks done and deployed - milestone 1
5pm: Token authentication done and deployed - milestone 2
8.30pm: Design update
10pm: Watched the announcement of Pokemon Sun and Moon's starters
9am next day: Admin area complete - milestone 3
12pm: API complete - milestone 4

ZhangYiJiang / fuck-orbital