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A full-featured form software built with love in python

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Can you please change the link to the English version?

https://github.com/shiyanhui/Young/blob/master/README_EN.md

BTW: These colours remind me of something, I can't put my finger on it :)

Maybe you could search for your answer?

Crayola? Primary colors? Ebay's logo?

Perhaps the logo for Super Mario Bros...

Hehe!

Changed. Haha, the colours come from google logo :)

Thank you :)

Forum software, not form software!

Gees, thanks for that! I kept wondering if it was something to build 'forms' ... and the list of features didn't seem to jive with that assumption of mine.

Typo, sorry!

Describing some project with phrases such as "built with love" or "from the ground up" really make me cringe.

What gets me is the <in {languageX}> like that gives it more credibility to be trendy.

Also, when startups start the description of their generic SaaS tool with the word "beautiful".

It usually seems to mean: "The app doesn't do very much yet, so we had room for plenty of UI whitespace and 18px fonts."

I concur. Yet to see any "Built with hate" projects. Like "Built with hate in Perl!"

Perl, the choice for the self-loathing hacker

I like working with Perl. Admittedly its easy to shoot yourself in the foot with it.

I have done some work in Java and Javascript. It was all done with hate. If there was any love there, it was for the paychecks I got at the end of each month.

You should try working with Salesforce. That makes JavaScript seem like a pleasant experience.

At the last company I worked for, we used Salesforce as our database and source of truth in one of our web applications. It was exactly as horrible as it sounds :)

I've been there, and I feel your pain. My boss wanted to use it as the source of truth for one of our monitoring systems. It was... ugly.

"This project was built for revenge, over a three-day sleepless marathon fueled by my hatred."

"Cool, so what does it do?"

"It prints Jacob is a loser nerd in large ASCII art characters, over and over again."

"..."

"The message is hard-coded for now, but I'm planning to make it customizable next time I get angry at someone."

The polite term is "enterprise"

If it's "Built from the top down" it might be "with hate!"

they make me cringe too , but i often question myself if feeling this way is my own fault. What is wrong with loving code or loving a little project? Do we all wanna be seen as hardcore devs that do this work cause we are forced to? I'm not attacking just a question I'd like to pop out there.

Yeah this is the thing. Especially for projects built in off-time, this feels like people expressing "I code for others for money, but this I gave up my time for because it makes me happy."

It's pride in work. Nothing wrong with that.

I thought it was cringey because the phrase is overused[1] and sort of a joke by now? I would never cringe at someone loving to program for fun.

[1] I've seen too many website footers that say "Handcrafted with love in (San Francisco | New York | Portland)".

As an advertising statement -- "built with love" -- means nothing to me as a consumer. If there is nothing more interesting to tell me in that space, then it suggests there is some kind of lack in the product.

All I care about is the value, quality and cost of the product.

It is very cringey though. It's no real indication of how much love went into it, and just comes across as an attempt to stand out and appeal to hipster impulses.

:-) Aren't you bikeshedding? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12403557

The app I am maintain says Built with Love in Stockholm. Must have been some sort of masochistic love.

As someone who doesn't know or use python but just knows about it, I thought love was some kind of a python framework as frameworks tend to have weird names.

Nah, that's for Lua :) https://love2d.org/

Organic, 100% fluten free, home-grown Python!

Please don't pay attention to the negativity. It is a nice project. I really like the GUI. Oh and its a tornado based project, which is cool. The logo is really cool also. What font did you use for it?

I too would love to know the logo font.

The font is monofur, my favourite programming font. You can download here https://github.com/powerline/fonts

Forum not form.

They mention Unbuntu amongst the Chinese, too.

So if it's been de-Buntu'd, I guess it would be .... Debian?

Sorry for that, I have changed it.

What is a "form software" ?

It looks like a chat client, nice UI.

I think it's supposed to be "forum"

Yeah, its supposed to be "forum". I work in a form heavy industry and thought this was going to be a solution aimed at that :/ And I thought it was by Google for a second.

Typo, sorry.

A promising alternative is http://misago-project.org/

Very nice indeed! Django+DRF and React+redux is like four of my favourite things combined. The frontend build file is gulp, so make that five.

working on a similar project, too. github.com/lez/societybuilder (deployed at jovilag.net). Sorry for not being english just yet.

technology: pyramid + peewee + react + redux + postgresql

Looks more like Facebook than a forum?

Eehh, it's GPL-ed. I was already thinking of a brand to slap on it and sell for big money. shame.

Please don't use several megabyte-plus size images on your front page!

Yeah, I will optimize it. Thanks.

Have you considered AGPL as a license? So that anyone deploying and changing your app will have to give back.

Yeah, sounds reasonable. Thanks.

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