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The people behind OkCupid launch Crazy Blind Date

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I absolutely love this idea and can't wait for it to expand. One lil' bug, though: when I finish the "add location" process, I get this message: "Fatal error: Call to undefined function drawError() in [...]date_wizard.php on line 655"

fix it aston!

Sweet. There's now a drawError(), but that still doesn't change the fact that you got to an error state. Do you remember what you did?

I tried signing up...and since I am not in the US the signup didn't work

the -OR- enter city, country is failing

They should give a list of cities they support at the moment. I can imagine a lot of people getting frustrated by not being able to sign-up.

It's only live in Austin right now. According to the FAQ, if you enter another city, they'll tell you when they launch in your city.

Actually, they only support a single city now.

Two things sprung to mind:

They finally got a good designer.

Are they still using their custom C++ web application framework for building websites? (Which was answered in the negative by revolvingcur's comment, since he got a PHP error. At least they're moving up the abstraction curve somewhat.)

word on the street is they're moving to python for some of the back-end (coupla friends work at okc.) and php for the front-end.

We're running CBD.com on PHP. That's been an adventure so far... There're a lot of hooks back into our core product, though, and that stuff's happening via RPC's. There's a tiny bit of C++ code, consequently, that came about for this app.

PS: I'll let our frontend folks know you like the design.

I clicked through it and as far as I can tell the user interface does not really accommodate homosexuals. They ask who you want to meet, if you say a girl they assume you are a boy and contrariwise.

I can see hate crimes coming out of this.

We set you up for the date first, then we ask the personal details. You can tell us your gender and orientation later on (and they don't even have to match what you asked for on the date).

How does this prevent a heterosexual male "seeking women" from being matched up with a homosexual male "seeking men"? If you pair those "seeking men" with those "seeking women?" I imagine your users may be upset if this confusion is a possibility.

Of course we check for reciprocity.

Production quality software: Fatal error: Call to undefined function drawError() in /usr/local/www/cbd-live/date_wizard.php on line 655

We're working on it.

Sorry about my previous snarkiness. Consider this a less obnoxious bug report: I again attempted to add a location. It appeared to work, but the final screen (following "We've recorded your info...") spits out: "Error...

Array ( [prev_page] => 18 )

Array ( [welcome_res] => 3 [when_res] => 3 [city_res] => 5 [other_city] => New York [not_there_yet_email] => elided@notmyemail.com [zipcode] => 10010 )"

On the up side, I think the design is slick and appealing. This will be a great page once you get the kinks worked out.

Kimberly checked in the fix to that earlier today. Thanks for the help.

Hmm. So much for the quiet launch.

I'll consider this thread an interactive bug queue...

Oops. :)

hopefully no one that uses the service will ever encounter a crazy (in a bad way) blind date. I wonder what their contingencies are for that scenario?

HAH. Yeah right.

Everyone (women especially) will ditch this once they see how poor the average date partner is. That's my prediction.

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