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New Project: My wife's dating-ish site

My wife has been trying to get an idea for a site off the ground for about three or four years now. For various reasons, it's failed before getting any real progress made every attempt before. However now, things are rolling along fairly smoothly!
She's had an idea for this dating site for a long while, and until it's ready to go live, will remain nameless (and linkless). But let's just say that it's a bit of an "extreme" social environment, and probably not too terribly safe for work. Or at least it won't be.
So far, she's been setting it up using osDate, which is a pretty cool script. Powerful and fairly flexible, but severely lacking in documentation and polish. osDate doesn't really have the same curb-appeal that Drupal, Wordpress, or even Joomla has, but it gets the job done. The worst part about it though, is the templating system. For me, I've never worked with Smarty in detail, so it's a bit unique for me, and is hindering some progress.
So she's been doing the core designing and building, and for some of the more in-depth PHP-type stuff, she's handed that off to me, which luckily I've been whittling away issue by issue. My hope is that within a month's time, the site will be ready to go live and accept members.
As for the site itself, and what it is, I'll end with this: there's a certain niche group that has been without a quality non-paid site for many years now. This is her (and my) attempt to give back to this group, and provide a non-sellout alternative for dating and resources. If you know me (or my wife) on a friendship level, then I'm sure you already are aware of the project, or can guess pretty easily. But until it goes live, details will be sparse from here on out, mostly because I'd rather not advertise the site when I'm looking for a job at the same time hehe.
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