Fem Fusion

www.femfusion.nl

Through an assignment for Zij aan Zij (“Side by Side”) magazine the makers of Femfusion discovered that many lesbian women felt a great need for a place of their own on the web. The Zij aan Zij website was outgrowing the magazine, so they decided to launch their own inter-active website. The success was huge, the press jumped on top of it, and soon the functionalities couldn’t catch up with the number of visitors. The initiators sent an application to Digitale Pioniers, for they wanted to offer the women more possibilities for expression and mutual contact. The aim was to develop a chat function, a forum, and a prose tool

Final products

The chat function is ready. The women are very satisfied with the chat’s privacy guarantees. Femchat is a unique chat application in the sense that it can be fully integrated within a community website that is realized in PHP/MySQL. User’s profile, inlog account, etcetera from the PHP part are transferred imperceptibly into the chat.

The Java part of the application was built in Rumania. The Rumanians were so much concerned with the project that, in their enthusiasm, they put many more hours in the project than initially was agreed upon. To them the demands of user-friendliness formed a huge challenge.

The chat offers funny innovating options, like a Femchatbar, where one can buy other visitors a drink. Evy drink is linked to a donation to the foundation. Furthermore, visitors can draw the operator’s attention to undesired practices, so that he doesn’t have to continually attend all conversations. Possible bans on visitors who don’t follow the rules are kept up with by an elaborate control system.

Impact

www.femfusion.nl is a place where lesbian women can meet each other. The extension of the site caused yet again an enormous rise in the number of visitors. Now there are 8,000 registered users and 74,000 visitors. Many of them visit the site more than once a day. So the website meets a great need. Now it only addresses the Netherlands, but there is a big demand internationally as well

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