HTML and CSS I'm pretty much fully competent in.
Ah, cool. In that case, if you were to Curate a list, you'd pretty much have the option of mocking up whatever within that general space and sending it to me for integration.
I'm gonna stay vague on exactly what future Curators will get to do, since it's so open-ended, but for people handy with this stuff they can sorta create whatever and I
should be able to do that integration without a lot of trouble, and for everyone else they can just dream a little bigger. I can't preemptively commit to just co-designing this stuff each time, of course, but in practice I expect I'll be able to do a fair bit of taking people's general ideas and mocking something up for them, since this just happens every few months at most.
But yeah, short version is: the next Curator will probably have an easier time than any have so far.
What I would say is knowing what I do now, I definitely appreciate more the work other people do.
Same thing happens to me as I get into more serious programming. I've got some friends who're so much better at it than I am, and the gulf actually seems wider the more I learn.
Really like the integrated approach you've taken across the Movies with lists, favourites, clubs and so on... linking up to the MovieDB API, then all the CSS you've done for the List posts. Whenever you introduce something new it always piques my curiosity as to how you've done it.
Well, I'm always happy to elaborate. Ask whenever.
Re: the API. Yeah, that was a seminal moment for the site. I've had these kinds of ambitions for the site's entire history, but the options just weren't there. So for years our favorite movies were just text, and I had a long list of common titles used for a hard-slog version of autofill/autocorrect, and it was just messy, but there were no other options. So many things I'd wanted to do for a decade or more became possible with TheMovieDB. Now it's just about finding the time and energy for them, which is a problem, but a good problem.