Failures!

Many successes lately with UNA so I have a lot to be grateful for... Nevertheless here are some of my failures...

1.Numerous attempts to get google connect, facebook connect, twitter connect to work - all failures. So very confusing. So many hoops to fly through. I don't want to make an app per se (right now) - I just want users to be able to invite their contacts from these sites to join and for users to login using these sites if they want. I'm at the point of giving up on that, but what a difference on site growth it could make. I guess I'm just not smart enough to figure it out... and who does one call at these companies for help? No people there. Just robots.

2. I tried turning the video section into a more intuitive YouTube, Rumble, Oddysey like video section. I failed ultimately. The search mechanism on UNA does not facilitate same page searching which is how these sites operate. Youtube - not Google - is the most active search engine worldwide I have heard. People want to watch, upload and share videos more than anything else now - so this and Messenger are the primary applications people need I feel. UNA videos are so well set up for the user to upload but the intuitive function of the video page isn't there. UNA needs an amazing search for video on the page - thats all really, and were there! vk.com and ok.ru seem to have a workaround in action with iframes I think. Categories are virtually useless in the video world. Hashtag channels are great of course in the video page, they essentially provide search results when clicked. Sites will fail simply because the video pages suck in an age when they can't to succeed. It really needs to be a one page environment. My opinion only.

3 Artificer - There are many great things and yet other not-quite ready aspects to Artificer making it unsuitable for now. Search in header is great. Worked on the Artificer template for a month. Comfy with using just the raw styling but there are aspects out of wack or missing the pushed me over to protean, which is fine, except for the search not being a formfield clearly available in the header.

4. I failed at removing form fields for street and name fields using CSS - though I don't know why. Display: none code seemed right. No big deal but a little mystery. Many minor failures, but such is the day to day of any of us playing or working with web tech. Ever-changing, re-arranging.

I succeeded in getting The Canada2 Community Network beta-launched at https://Canada2.com on Tuesday, the 2nd day of the 2nd month in the year 2022 at 2:22 PM. I had a toast and smoke ceremony to celebrate the occasion! I greatly appreciate the Boonex team for all they did, and are doing, to make the world a better place.