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Informer Universitario .es

Website for unversity students to share and read anonymous messages publicly

The website seen in a Mac computer

About the project

  • Creation date: 2013
  • Technologies: PHP + MySQL + HTML + jQuery

In 2013, there was a trend in Spain of university "informers". These informers were Facebook pages (each university would have one) where university students could go to publish and read messages anonymously by sending their messages to the page admins, who would publish them on their behalf.

Since this became such a phenomenon, I decided to create a website to centralise the whole thing, because why not. The website had an interactive map of Spain, so you could tap on your province, then tap on your uni, and then read and send anonymous messages on that specific board.

I made the website in a rush and without too much effort, but at least I learned something new, as this was the first time I applied the principles of responsive web design, which was still a fairly novel concept by this point.

This never took off properly in the whole of Spain (to be fair, I never promoted it anywhere), but there were a few universities whose boards somehow became quite active, so the project kinda worked, at least in some specific places.

Unfortunately, as anyone with a brain less smooth than mine could have predicted, the initially cute (and horny) messages rapidly turned into awful abuse, so I eventually shut the site down, as I couldn't be bothered moderating it. Plus, I didn't think there was really a successful, sustainable path forward for the site anyway, so there was no point on keeping it alive.