History
I formed seemslegit on April, 2009 under the name "motivationals.sosguy.net". After the short-lived and unsuccessful *chan style imageboard I created for motivational posters died off, I was looking for ideas on how to offer up the 500 or so posters I had amassed over the years. I tried to install Danboouru, and try off and on till this day, but it's not going to happen. I also didn't have a dedicated server to host on, just shared PHP. I decided to give Shimmie a chance, and despite the fact that 2.3 hadn't come out at that time (and hasn't yet either) I installed the trunk version, customized it, and thus the first version of seemslegit was born.
I worked day and night on the site, adding various hacks and enhancements, and by mid-May the site was taking form.
Then the boring part began: tagging images. I was the sole tagger for a while until
Mike came along to help me.
H e did a great job, too! By the end of the May I decided the name "motivationals.sosguy.net" just wasn't a good name, and since domain names are cheap enough, I looked to find a new domain that was motivational poster themed. Anything with motivation in it seemed to be taken, so I decided to look to one of my
favorite posters, or at least one of the most famous ones. The name was available, and grabbed it like that... kinda
I installed Google Analytics, and seemslegit.com went live on June 1, 2009. Since that time a lot of awesome people have visited the site and left comments, uploaded images, helped tag images, and I thank you all!
One thing I've always lacked is a motivational poster generator (argh.) All the big-shot motivational sites have one, but I don't know how to put one together and integrate it into Shimmie. I tried
...yeah that didn't work.
Soon afterwards, I found out the Link to Image module was broken beyond repair, and decided to hack the sharing extension
tosupportFacebookandTwitter.Itworked,butthesidebarwasbecomingquitelarge.Ireallywantedtokeepthingssimple,andthat'swhyIdecided
to mess stuff up even more :\ By the time I started with ads and the Wibiya toolbar, things got pretty complex
And yet, there were glitches galore in the version of Shimmie I was running. I decided to redesign the site, and was thinking of black and gray instead of green and red
b ut then decided against it since it didn't look all that good. Classic green and red it was :D
When the redesign is done, I shall reopen comments and the ability to post!
