Bump
I've been working on getting a p2p imageboard functioning for a while and I decided to start fresh more recently with a new project. It's still not fully featured per se, but I feel like releasing it in it's current form since it's still functional and I want to see if it works in the wild. Hopefully you'll be able to see the existing boards and start posting.
https://gitgud.io/threshold862543/gladden
To install:
>install node and yarn (or npm instead of yarn)
>run "yarn build" to get the dependencies
>run "yarn start" to start the server
And you can add whatever boards you like.
This basically works like a torrent. Moderation is local, so you can delete files and posts that you don't like, but it won't be deleted for others necessarily (unless everyone else blocks them and there are no more seeders). "Subscribing" to others as moderators so you can trust them to delete for you is also possible I just haven't hooked it all up yet.
>the only way to prevent that is to delete it as soon as it's posted?
You can delete it at any time after it's posted and it will be gone from your machine and you won't get the same file again or seed it to anyone else (essentially hashbanning the file)
You can also (once I add this but it is pretty simple to implement) delegate others as trusted moderators on your behalf. So someone you trust with this power could delete the file and then you wouldn't see the file either.
Just updated some stuff, I'm inclined towards minimalist design like that, but custom css selector is something on the to-do list.
Also I looked into what you mentioned about the dependencies, I think maybe you built it using
>yarn install or npm install
instead of:
>yarn build
There's a subfolder with its own package.json so yarn build takes care of that.
I also want to get this into an executable so people can just extract-and-run and also create a browser-based frontend that's compatible with the same p2p database in the backend as the desktop client.
And I upped the replication factor on the seedbox node (and also made this into a config option, if you want to replicate everything instead of having it be dynamic, set replicationFactor to 1 in config/config.json) hopefully that will help avoid issues with data availability. If there are particular boards you'd like me to seed in addition to the defaults, let me know.
And also I recommend migrating to the newest version as there's a setting that should make data more persistent and pages quicker to load. If you copy paste your storage folder everything should port over for the most part, but even without doing that, you should be able to get all the existing data from other peers.
