Well now that I'm not working a regular 9 to 5 job, I'm finding I have lots of free time...

I'd like to use the free time to create a website like Mingle or Tagged or Badoo, rather than just cabbaging watching TV...

Since I cannot afford to fork out thousands of dollars, I'll be doing all the work myself (fingers crossed 🤞 lol )...

I note too that website design has come a long way from html 3.0 which is when I first started learning about the subject...

When I get stuck, I'm hoping to ask the professionals in the community to guide me, by way of questions lol...

Naturally I'll also be using Google and w3schools.com for research as well...


My first question is

If you were designing a dating/social website, what key features would you have?


Currently I have shortlisted
1 - Public Chat Rooms
(like tagged.com before it was removed)
2 - Public Forums
(bulletin board)
3 - Direct Messaging
(the email feature)

Currently I have avoided
1 - Member Blogs
(blogs/blogs leave it to the pros)

Thinking about adding
1 - Music playlists
(only playing YouTube videos of the members favourite tracks)

A way to vett the members to ensure that they are what they say they are. That should require a minimum amount to sign up so that scammers would go broke making their hundreds of profiles like on here and other sites.

Software should automatically check for certain conditions that are obvious frauds such as a 20 year old 2000 miles away wanting a relationship with a man 60 years old that has never said boo to her.

Grammar checker to catch the obvious frauds from overseas that have horrid grammar and flag them for more review.

Admins that listen to members and actually investigate fraud reports.

I could go for days since everything is what I have mentioned on here before and they ignore every bit of it.

Look what it has lead to