Here we go again in lockdown, luckily I gathered around some friends and we were able to get out and enjoy the beautiful weather on Easter Sunday to complete a socially distanced scavenger hunt.
Definitely a lot of fun and a lot of work hosting but I'd do it again!
I have to say I had an opportunity a while back, must be 2019, when I got invited to this epic scavenger hunt hosted by a friend's friend. It was just the most fun, hard and amazing scavenger hunt. Took us all around exploring Brampton, for like 8 hours looking for things and places I never knew existed in Brampton, even though I work in Brampton. I have always wanted to host one since, as I do enjoy hosting and organizing things but knew I couldn't beat that RO-BOB Rally. It was just so much fun.
But since we would be stuck at home, I was just like why not. So here I go, trying to find a socially distanced way of doing it. I started looking at different apps, or websites to see how I could do it. But couldn't find anything I liked. Yes I could have used email or paper or facebook or other easier ways. But nope, decided to build a website LOL.
But part of it was me learning on how to build one again, don't get me wrong this is barely building one. Wix practically built it for me, but I wanted to try to fiddling around to build and design that user experience.
My first test for this was using a forum and then hosting a Zoom party to vote for the best picture.
First, have to thank my colleague Jo for recommending directpolling.com . For a free polling site, it worked AMAZING for what I had to do.
Couple of lessons learned. Basically for me only for future notes :) (feel free to read)
First and foremost, Wix Forum, though free, but it came with struggles. I knew from the start I didn't like the forum, having to click to see each task vs seeing it all. Perhaps I could see I could make the mobile version smaller so the whole text could be viewed.
Free things don't come easy :P
The password, created one so it makes the forum private so only registered members with the password could see it. Well, it basically prompted the password every time I turned on my phone to check status. Workaround - perhaps now that my friends are members, perhaps could set it so only specific members could access the specific page? Maybe?
Video and image uploads - first message came from Gapper that he couldn't upload the video. First thought was crap, I shouldn't have adjusted the mb max for uploads, but don't know if that had to do it with it or not. Gapper told me that he was able to upload it after restarting his phone. While frantically trying to figure out why it wasn't loading. I read somewhere that Wix Forums only allows max 10 uploads, and I am like crap, I have 27 tasks fingers crossed it works! For some it did, for others, it didn't. It didn't appear the max of 10 uploads to be an issue but perhaps a specific type of phone? I don't know. But Adam has an iphone and it worked fine for him. Many glitches there. Though, mostly came from the mobile uploads. It seemed like computer uploads didn't have those sort of issues. Hopefully Wix Forum will have those issues fixed.
But it was fun, and my gosh did we put these totems through some things..
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