I had a post about a week ago, saying I was new to Bubble and was thoroughly impressed by what it can do. Was brainstorming some ideas and wanted to build something that could affect the world in a positive manner. As you may know, the BLM movement has been spreading in US and some of the things I kept noticing were articles/blog posts/social media posts to promote Black Owned Businesses. These were awesome, but weren’t that user friendly…they weren’t searchable and had some limitations.
Here comes Bubble with it’s fine a@#…I asked for help a few people reached out to me directly (Thank you!). I teamed up with a fellow in Brazil and he helped bring this dream to reality…in a matter of a few days.
And now it’s live for the world to review. Am planning on promoting it starting today (June 19) and wanted to give you all a heads up. I’m grateful for this community that Bubble has growing. I feel like it’s such an underrated way of making web apps.
@sunny — This is awesome. I too was noticing the many recourses being shared recently to help the BLM movement, many of which were promoted via instagram stories where there is no direct link.
What a great cause. And a great use case for the value of Bubble. Keep up the good work!
Congrats on your project, @sunny, and best of luck with promoting it! Just a heads up… I have tried to hit the site a couple of times, and it is crashing hard when trying to load the repeating group.
Thank you! What do you suggest in terms of handling the load? I am currently on the personal plan, should I scale up to Professional? Or is this more of a data handling part on the repeating group?
I don’t know if others will have the same issue with the site, but every time I start to scroll the repeating group, it locks up pretty hard.
I am by no means an expert in this area, and I’m not sure if moving up to the Professional plan will help. If it was my site, though, I might rethink that repeating group a bit. I mean, as someone who comes to the site, there isn’t a lot of value in being able to scroll endlessly through that initial list because that’s not how I am going to find the businesses I want to support. So, if there isn’t value in being able to scroll through every business and it has the potential to lock up on the user (or just be really slow, for that matter), then why provide that view at all?
Maybe the default view could be a handful of “featured” businesses in one or more areas (whatever “featured” might mean), and you don’t start showing more businesses until the user performs a search? Or maybe you could try to detect the user’s location and immediately filter the list for them?
Anyway, that’s all just food for thought, and I hope it’s at least somewhat helpful. Maybe someone else will jump in here and give you a more solid solution for your repeating group, but again, if it was my site, I would probably go a slightly different way with it from a user experience perspective.
