Hi HN. I started to build Gurlic as a way to post my thoughts. Here are a few examples: https://gurlic.com/bob/dont-laugh https://gurlic.com/bob/dont-laugh

Hi HN. I started to build Gurlic as a way to post my thoughts. Here are a few examples: https://gurlic.com/bob/dont-laugh https://gurlic.com/bob/dont-laugh https://gurlic.com/plato/ion?theme=minimal https://gurlic.com/plato/ion?theme=minimal https://gurlic.com/homer/the-odyssey-book-i?theme=pudding https://gurlic.com/homer/the-odyssey-book-i?theme=pudding https://gurlic.com/raw/next-stop-immortality?theme=naked https://gurlic.com/raw/next-stop-immortality?theme=naked There is a minimal editor for writing longform/articles, with a fair bit of customization, theme options, including custom CSS, adding co-authors etc. User can also post short posts including media, attachments, reviews, polls and so on. Some examples: https://gurlic.com/raw/post/320442840570134533 https://gurlic.com/raw/post/320442840570134533 https://gurlic.com/bob/post/lf1Gb5wFYb6A https://gurlic.com/bob/post/lf1Gb5wFYb6A https://gurlic.com/davinci/post/hjWoniPoYNDK https://gurlic.com/davinci/post/hjWoniPoYNDK etc... These posts are brought together in profiles which can be customized: https://gurlic.com/raw https://gurlic.com/raw https://gurlic.com/bob https://gurlic.com/bob https://gurlic.com/haxor https://gurlic.com/haxor Profiles can be at subdomains too: https://raw.gurlic.com https://raw.gurlic.com Or domains: https://bob.monster https://bob.monster Communities ----------- Gurlic has a thing called a "bread" which is a collection of posts. The most common type of bread is a community, which is sort of like a subreddit or a forum. These are fairly minimal now, but have customization options, mods/admins and so on. Here are a few examples: https://gurlic.com/music https://gurlic.com/music https://gurlic.com/programming https://gurlic.com/programming https://gurlic.com/space https://gurlic.com/space Communities can be nested: https://gurlic.com/music/jazz https://gurlic.com/music/jazz https://gurlic.com/music/jazz/fusion https://gurlic.com/music/jazz/fusion They can be found at subdomains too, like so: https://music.gurlic.com https://music.gurlic.com https://music.gurlic.com/jazz https://music.gurlic.com/jazz https://music.gurlic.com/jazz/fusion https://music.gurlic.com/jazz/fusion Or domains: https://gurlic.space https://gurlic.space Galleries --------- A gallery is just another type of bread, but accepts image posts only. Like this: https://gurlic.com/art https://gurlic.com/art They can be at subdomains too: https://art.gurlic.com https://art.gurlic.com Or domains: https://gurlic.art https://gurlic.art Publications ------------ Publications are yet another type of bread. These are for longform posts only. Here's one: https://gurlic.com/classics https://gurlic.com/classics And a post from it: https://gurlic.com/classics/the-iliad-book-ii https://gurlic.com/classics/the-iliad-book-ii These can be at domains too: https://classics.wtf https://classics.wtf And a post: https://classics.wtf/the-odyssey-book-iii https://classics.wtf/the-odyssey-book-iii Nested breads don't have to be the same type, so you could have a gallery under a community, or some other combination. Like this: https://gurlic.com/art/discussion https://gurlic.com/art/discussion https://gurlic.com/programming/memes https://gurlic.com/programming/memes Other stuff ----------- Most posts can be tagged, marked NSFW, users can be @mentioned, there are #hashtags, all the usual modern amenities. Profiles and communities have RSS too, or should, last I checked. Work in progress ---------------- I'm hoping to integrate matrix into the code as soon as I find more time to read/learn it and things like dendrite and hydrogen are stable enough. Until then, signed up users get a @username:gurlic.com account and there's a self-hosted version of the Riot/Element as https://gurlic.com/chat https://gurlic.com/chat that I havent' had the time to play with yet. I'm guessing the usual matrix clients on desktop/phone can be used, but I haven't checked. Short term goals are to build up a small community of users, fix things that are broken, and make the code free. I'm not a programmer, so all of this took a lot of yahoo searches. I'd be happy to hear feedback and advice. Longer term goals would be to have activitypub or some kind of way to have federated interaction between domains. But this needs more thought and probably someone smarter than me to look into it. Most of the backend is Go/grpc for the db/logic, and rust for the shortlink server. The frontend is a combination of Go templates, vanilla JS, Svelte, and Vue. There is a ton of other stuff I'm leaving out for brevity. Some of them may come to me in the comments if anybody has a question. Thanks