Neppit

An anonymous Internet forum. You can see it in action at
https://forum.nokaa.moe.

Neppit is intended as a forum for software projects; an alternative to other options such as discourse.

Install

Make sure that you have setup Postgresql.

Sass is used for our stylesheets, make sure
that you have sassc installed if you wish to build the css.

We use just for convenience, you can install
just with cargo install just. If you do not wish to install just, just run
the commands in Justfile. Just syntax is very similar to make.

$ createdb neppit
# replace `username` `password` and `localhost` as needed
$ echo "DATABASE_URL=postgres://username:password@localhost/neppit" > .env
$ just run-release

Non-Goals

• User Logins: Neppit is anonymous
• Shadow banning: It’s a disgusting practice
• Images: Image boards tend to attract unsavory content, not hosting images makes admin work much easier

Wish List

These are features that would be nice to have, but that I might not work on.
If you would like to work on one of the features, just open an issue about
which feature you would like to work on.

• Better SQL
• Basic Moderation: Login for post deletion, bans, etc.
• Board and post links
• Link parsing
• Improved styling
• API: Probably a JSON API, maybe look to 4chan for an example
• Minor bug fixes
  • Post date display should only show e.g. 2017-01-01 00:00:01
  • You can attempt to load a post that doesn’t exist, e.g. go to https://forum.nokaa.moe/b/news/1000000
  • Entering the url to a reply (/reply) should load /thread#reply, currently loads the thread data at /reply which affects new post creation.