Trigger Warning

About

A website and database dedicated to helping those with traumatic experiences enjoy media again, without the shock of a traumatic event. This project aims to add a degree of annotation to the current IMDB and TVDB projects, via the community.

This is a project, quite literally, 6 years in the making. Initial versions being React -> Angular -> Google Sheet (which still works very nicely!) -> Rocket.rs (now).

At no point will this project be monetised, donations are welcome and will only go towards the upkeep and maintenance of the project. If there are any donations, there will be a page to log the ins and out of the pot.

ToDo:

• Ensure DB migrations will be set up and safe to use.
• TV media
  • Adding support for TV media is the next major plan after the movie side is stabilised.
  • There will be extra work on this simply because of the extra layer of data needed to be kept.
• Points that need expert opinion
  • Event Categories
    • This should be a small enough list to cover a wide range of topics
      • One thing i'm keen on is keeping this concise
      • However, that should only be second to keeping the nuance of these terms.
    • Are what we have enough to capture an event type without losing the nuance of that event?
      • Is Birth Trauma too "generic"?
      • Should it be seperated into:
        • "Birth Event"
        • "Child Loss"
        • "Parent Loss"
        • "Medically Difficult Birth Event"
      • Likewise with "Sexual Violence"
        • It is a very broad term.
        • Should it also be split out.
      • And then the interplay between various events.
        • The effect of CSA on Birth, should this be it's own topic.

Tech Stack

• Rocket.rs
  • A rust web framework, simply it has made the most sense to me and this is the furthest I've got with the many iterations of this project that there has been.
• Diesel
  • Object Relational Mapper (ORM), this is what allows the Rocket app to talk to the Database.
• Sqlite3
  • Used simply because it was the default, I may change this out for postgresql in the future but for now sqlite3 works well.
• Rust
  • Rust is the language used to write the vast majority of TriggerWarning, bar some SQL. It's core tenants revolve around: performance, type safety, concurrency, and memory safety.