Singlesaints is getting ever closer. The designer is now working on some interior pages, and I'm working on programming aspects that should heighten the functionality by an order of magnitude.
Users will now be able to host their own blogs. Their profiles will be like a MySpace profile -- only not horrifically ugly, like MySpace. Eventually I want to add podcast hosting and video hosting, but for now folks can use YouTube for that kinda thing.
People can comment on your blog, and you can moderate those comments.
We finally have a zip code range search. That took some doing, but it's up. The only difficulty is that there are some zips that will no doubt have been added or changed; my data goes back to 2000, so there are probably more than a couple dozen new or altered zips. Out of 42000 that's not bad, though.
Thumbnails will automatically be created when you upload your photo, though you can still go in and tweak your thumbnail if you want. This part is closer than ever -- the auto-thumbnailer is done, and yesterday I managed to find an old flash program that lets your resize and crop images. I built it back in 2005, but could only find the .swf, not the .fla. That means I wouldn't be able to modify it to match the new site. Fortunately, I was able to use a Flash decompiler to extract a .fla, and should be able to get that thinger up soon. (It took a bit to get it to accept my registration code, but hey, it finally worked, so I'll stop complaining.)
Man, the site is going to look so good. SO good.
There will be some other features, too. Export your mailbox in a nifty .csv file, or as a single long text file. Send a user a message without ever leaving their profile. Add people to your friends' list; subscribe to others' blogs, as well as anything out there that has an RSS feed, like news sites.
Closer and closer. I set the beta launch date as January 1, but I don't really see it happening before February 1.
And of course it will still be free, free, free. When it's working right, and the bugs are removed, and the feedback is positive -- then I have another project I want to start on. It will be nifty beyond reason.