phorum: Gopher Protocol BBS

An anonymous, ephemeral text bulletin board system for the Gopher Protocol written in Haskell.

There's a Debian package you can install on Ubuntu and Debian alike, I believe.

Try it out + more info

Please see my showcase for phorum on my website, there you will (hopefully) find:

• More info about phorum
• How to connect to a live server running phorum (actually test out a phorum server!)
• More info on running a server

Running from repo

Use stack to run:

stack run -- --config etc/config.toml launch

You may want to run a demo postgres server first:

docker run --name phorum-postgres-server -e POSTGRES_USER=your_username -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=your_password -e POSTGRES_DB=your_database -p 5432:5432 -d postgres

Example usage

Here are some commands related to banning:

• phorum --config config.toml ban --post 1 --delete --reason "rule violation": ban user for post #1 and delete said post for the --reason supplied.
• phorum --config config.toml unban --ip someipv6addr: remove the ipv6 address from the ban table

Features

Here are some features:

• View threads as an ASCII-art text file
• Navigate the board as a menu
• Post threads and replies
• Ban system
• Prevents some reposting and unoriginal threads
• Post rate limiting
• Customizable! TOML configuration file!
• Configurable "secret codes"
• Handles/parses Gopher and HTTP(S) URIs into menu items