Building srchParty to Stay Free — And How I Plan to Keep It That Way
"srchParty's commitment to keeping the platform free for all users, and the optional paid features — stickers, promotions, and memberships — that make it sustainable."
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Week 078 — Item Page Partials
The item page is redesigned around state-driven partials. Each state (safe, lost, found) gets its own PHP partial for the detail panel. The segment button logic is mostly working; the state detail panels are next.
Week 077 — Desktop Layout and Found Page Fixes
The desktop layout gets redesigned with a fixed sidebar. Found item map and image were broken and are fixed. timestampFound was never being recorded — now it is. The lost and found panel visibility logic still isn't right.
Week 076 — Item Saving Works Across All States
Item saving is functional across all states for the first time since the refactor began. The isFinderOwner() bug is fixed. Stars and points transactions were being allocated twice — in both reportFound and reportReturned.
Week 075 — Lost State Saving
The safe-to-lost state transition saves. Geolocation naming refactor is completed. The ReportItemFoundCommand DTO gets a with() function added — manually, deliberately.