MOVIELOGGER - A movie-centric social media service
Current live link: my-movies-client.netlify.app
Client link: movielogger-client
About this project:
- This project is a social network service that focuses on building community around film, television, actors, and more.
Notable features:
- 'Rate', 'Review', or 'Like' your favourite (or hated) titles. Or you can mark titles as 'Watched' or add them to a 'Watchlist' for later viewing.
- Easily create users with unique usernames. Each user is given a randomly generated animal (or mythical beast) avatar!
- Follow your friends and talk to them through the direct message feature (group chats pending)
- Switch between film search and user search by clicking the icon to the left of the nav search bar.
- Searching for users, utilizes the Atlas Aggregate Search Algorithm allowing for a User fuzzy search (max 2 changes).
Known bugs and unintended features:
Wishlist and housekeeping:
- Add ability to create chat rooms (server-side functionality implemented).
- Add a "what to watch" suggestion sections based on watchlist and ratings.
- Improve styling in all areas.
- Implement search by cast member feature.
- Add links to cast member profile page from title show page.
- Add notifications (server-side functionality implemented already).
- Add pagination to results page
- Show when a user is typing on direct message page.
- Switch Watched to Reviews and allow users to write (limited) reviews of titles.
- Allow users to like Reviews.
- Create a feed of followed users' activity.
- When clicking on a platform in the "where to watch" section of the title page, link users to the title on that specific platform.
- Improve lazy loading of home sections for a more appealing user experience.