Marche is lightweight forum software in the vein of Reddit or 4chan, designed to provide an enjoyable and rewarding experience for users.
You can check out the canonical deployment of marche at https://www.cest-le-marche.com Everything on the main branch of this repository is automatically deployed to that URL.
The primary difference between Marche and other forum softwares is the inclusion of items. When a user posts a thread or a reply, there is a random chance that the user will be given an item. These items can include cosmetic items such a profile pictures or backgrounds and badges that the user can equip.
The other type of item that can drop are reactions. A user can use a reaction one time on any post other then one of their own to show appreciation or the opposite. Reactions add or subtract experience points from the recipient.
Experience points grant users special priviliges, the most prominent example as of right now being the ability to attach photos to posts after a certain level. This change was made in order to reduce the chance that users post blatantly illegal photos.
Marche is designed to be fun. It is not designed to revolutionize communication or society or how people interact with each other online.
Marche is written in Rust and uses the following tech stack:
- Tokio (async runtime)
- Axum (web framework)
- Askama (templating)
- Jquery
- Postgres