a forum software

Meaning:

• to search, quest, run (it)
• near, close, around, nearby, nigh (es)
• approximately, roughly (en; from circa)

This piece of software was created after a long time of pining for a new wave of forums hangs. The reason it exists are many. To harbor longer form discussions, and for crawling through threads and topics. For habitually visiting the site to see if anything new happened, as opposed to being obtrusively notified when in the middle of something else. For that sweet tinge of nostalgia that comes with the terrain, from having grown up in pace with the sprawling phpBB forum communities of the mid naughties.

It was written for the purpose of powering the nascent Merveilles community forums.

If you want to join the fun, first have a gander at the CONTRIBUTING.md document. It lays out the overall idea of the project, and outlines what kind of contributions will help improve the project.

Install golang.

To launch a local instance of the forum, run those commands (linux):

• touch temp.txt
• mkdir data
• go run run.go --authkey 0 --allowlist temp.txt --dev

It should respond Serving forum on :8277. Just go on http://localhost:8272.