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Any plans to open source / open core this software? I've always been interested in forum software (my first real web project was a Reddit clone in Flask and the

Any plans to open source / open core this software? I've always been interested in forum software (my first real web project was a Reddit clone in Flask and the complexities and edgecases abound - moderation tools, rate limiting, scaling write-load, finding the minimum front-end that doesn't make users puke).

buro9 7y ago
It is all open source. The only thing that isn't is the very old puppet script that managed the deploy as it was rather bespoke for our setup. To my own regret I focused far too much on making it an effective platform rather than an easy install, so that bit might feel gnarly but at least the errors are sane and guide you. The Go API and PostgreSQL schemas: https://github.com/microcosm-cc/microcosm https://github.com/microcosm-cc/microcosm The Django frontend (the client is nothing but a thin client over the API) https://github.com/microcosm-cc/microweb https://github.com/microcosm-cc/microweb The Bootstrap derived theme for the Django fronted https://github.com/microcosm-cc/microweb-bootstrap https://github.com/microcosm-cc/microweb-bootstrap And then other miscellaneous things: The Go HTML sanitizer for user generated content https://github.com/microcosm-cc/bluemonday https://github.com/microcosm-cc/bluemonday Our legal policies for forums on this platform (expensive to produce, but perfectly fitting a forum platform with minimal exposure for the platform owner/admin and minimal but some liability for a forum owner) https://github.com/microcosm-cc/legal https://github.com/microcosm-cc/legal There is also a newer thing, I was (/am?) intending to replace the Django layer with a Go frontend and templating, and then moving the API into this, such that the forum could become a single binary install and thus gain a new lease of life: https://github.com/buro9/microcosm https://github.com/buro9/microcosm . Once in a while I chip away on that.
- pram 7y ago
  Just wanted to say that your microcosm code was a huge inspiration/invaluable reference when I was learning go and developing my own forum like thing. Thanks!

buro9 7y ago

It is all open source. The only thing that isn't is the very old puppet script that managed the deploy as it was rather bespoke for our setup. To my own regret I focused far too much on making it an effective platform rather than an easy install, so that bit might feel gnarly but at least the errors are sane and guide you. The Go API and PostgreSQL schemas: https://github.com/microcosm-cc/microcosm https://github.com/microcosm-cc/microcosm The Django frontend (the client is nothing but a thin client over the API) https://github.com/microcosm-cc/microweb https://github.com/microcosm-cc/microweb The Bootstrap derived theme for the Django fronted https://github.com/microcosm-cc/microweb-bootstrap https://github.com/microcosm-cc/microweb-bootstrap And then other miscellaneous things: The Go HTML sanitizer for user generated content https://github.com/microcosm-cc/bluemonday https://github.com/microcosm-cc/bluemonday Our legal policies for forums on this platform (expensive to produce, but perfectly fitting a forum platform with minimal exposure for the platform owner/admin and minimal but some liability for a forum owner) https://github.com/microcosm-cc/legal https://github.com/microcosm-cc/legal There is also a newer thing, I was (/am?) intending to replace the Django layer with a Go frontend and templating, and then moving the API into this, such that the forum could become a single binary install and thus gain a new lease of life: https://github.com/buro9/microcosm https://github.com/buro9/microcosm . Once in a while I chip away on that.

pram 7y ago
Just wanted to say that your microcosm code was a huge inspiration/invaluable reference when I was learning go and developing my own forum like thing. Thanks!