Indigo Sky
Content Dashboard
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Managing social media content
Part of Tive consists of specifically curated articles for the d/Deaf community.
There are many APIs for top news in the country, but there was not much news for the ASL community. I looked into many news aggregate solutions for ASL news. I even designed a system for gathering multiple news sources by querying for ASL-related articles and saving them in our database. However, news aggregation is a bigger task than I had time for and the work was offloaded to a member of the team to find articles that were of higher quality.
The need arose for the team members to be able to upload and manage article content in a non-developer-friendly way. I initially looked for CMS tools to interact with our database for managing content. While there were some good options, we didn't find anything quite suitable. It was quicker to just write a simple web application with a form to upload new entries to the database.
Over time the web application UI improved and more features were added to support reporting content and users in the app. The app is updated daily with quality content from this portal and the feedback from the community and team has been great.
