page that accumulates a bunch of things made with the tutorial

[shiffman]

This is an enhancement to think about for the future. I'm really enjoying finding all the shared pages (e.g. http://hello.processing.org/display/#7858783) and it might be nice to accumulate them somewhere (10 most recent things made with hello processing?)

[scottgarner]

So I've been playing with options for this and I managed to recreate something like the current setup using Parse in the place of anonymous gists and it works pretty well.

Parse is designed for just this kind of scenario where you have an app that needs a backend component, but don't require anything super specialized. Right now, I think the two best options would be something based on Parse or something based on Wordpress.

Parse is amazingly simple to get going, but would require more work to create administration features. The free tier is pretty limited, but I can't imagine we'd go beyond it. My only complaint is that it seems to be noticeably slower than GitHub was.

Wordpress would make administration super easy, but automating the addition of new posts would be a little annoying (there is a REST API on the way, but it isn't in the current release and would still require some weird workarounds for auth). We'd also end up with a weird divide between the main Jekyll-driven site on GitHub and the Wordpress site hosted elsewhere.

I think that Wordpress as an application backend is interesting, but at the moment I'm leaning toward Parse. I think I could get a very basic gallery going within a couple of hours.

[scottgarner]

@shiffman, if you make an account at Parse I should be able to invite you as a collaborator. I think most of the foundations are in place, so it should just be a matter now of nailing down the interface.

[shiffman]

Great, I have an account under daniel at shiffman dot net.

[shiffman]

Picking up this discussion here I agree it would be good to (a) alert users that there work will be included in a gallery and (b) add an option to "opt-out"? Given there is no personal information I think that we can have the default be including in the gallery.