Uni Project - theProfile.co.uk

[GommeInc]

Evening all,

As per usual I'm playing messenger for Mentor, this time for his final year project and he needs people to take a look and maybe test it if possible.

It's an online identity managing tool that lets you create and manage multiple profiles, syncing with sites such as Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc The profiles can then be used to log in to multiple sites using openID or theProfiles own API's (see the wordpress plugin as an example)

So basically, have a look, attempt to break it and give out criticisms. They should mostly be about the system, than the website itself - as it's the system in question, not the design of the website (which is why I have it in this forum, not the show off your websites one :P)

[Janet Snakehole]

Signed up and whatnot with no problem, activating my account was straight forward and simple too, got the email immediately. Managed to connect my Facebook account okay but when I went to connect my Twitter account I got the message:


Woah there!
This page is no longer valid. It looks like someone already used the token information you provided. Please return to the site that sent you to this page and try again … it was probably an honest mistake.

And when updating my profile, it presumed my DOB was 1969-12-31? Hahaha, kind of a random date to just presume but that's let me edit that just fine. Apart from that I don't have any other accounts to connect nor do I have a Wordpress acc to test the plugin. Everything worked perfectly for me and apart from the Twitter authentication issue, I didn't encounter any other problems. System was very quick to load and easy to navigate.

Anyway I hope this helps :)

[GommeInc]

Signed up and whatnot with no problem, activating my account was straight forward and simple too, got the email immediately. Managed to connect my Facebook account okay but when I went to connect my Twitter account I got the message:

And when updating my profile, it presumed my DOB was 1969-12-31? Hahaha, kind of a random date to just presume but that's let me edit that just fine. Apart from that I don't have any other accounts to connect nor do I have a Wordpress acc to test the plugin. Everything worked perfectly for me and apart from the Twitter authentication issue, I didn't encounter any other problems. System was very quick to load and easy to navigate.

Anyway I hope this helps :)
It did the same with me for my D.O.B. :P That was the night before so he must of missed it out. Your criticisms are good though :) I'll have to mention the Twitter issue, that seems to be a new one (mine went okay the other night).

[Janet Snakehole]

I'll have to mention the Twitter issue, that seems to be a new one (mine went okay the other night).

Yeah I thought it might of just been me or something so I tried it a few times but it still didn't work!

[GommeInc]

I've mentioned it :) The DOB bug has been fixed too.

[GoldenMerc]

Sounds really good, Give me URL once its up.

[Robbie]

Sounds really good, Give me URL once its up.

www.theprofile.co.uk ... :P

[GommeInc]

www.theprofile.co.uk ... :P
Ah, thought something was missing in the post :P

Apparently the db has been cleaned, so you may have to make a new profile. It's to solve something, presumably, maybe the DOB issue :P

[Robbie]

Ah, thought something was missing in the post :P

Apparently the db has been cleaned, so you may have to make a new profile. It's to solve something, presumably, maybe the DOB issue :P

It's in the title, good enough for me!

[Source]

Too bad that at the moment the design of the website creates a less than optimal/enjoyable user experiencing, looking like something from the 90's. I think that's a key element that would really improve such a product.

[Recursion]

Drop the 'the' ;)