gopherden: Gopher Protocol BBS

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

Try it out + more info

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

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

I feel these might be true for why you should try Nix:

Easier to build on a variety of systems (mac, linux)
Easier to get a development system up and running (a demo database, gopher client)

If you have nix installed and experimental-features = flakes nix-command in your ~/.config/nix/nix.conf, I think this should work:

nix develop
nix run .#gopherden -- launch

Within nix develop you can also use gopher -p "/" localhost 7000 to visit the gopherhole.

I believe the demo database will be deleted when you exit any nix develop session!

Here are some commands related to banning:

nix run .#gopherden -- ban --post 1 --delete --reason "rule violation": ban user for post #1 and delete said post for the --reason supplied.
nix run .#gopherden -- unban --ip someipv6addr: remove the ipv6 address from the ban table

If you want to just use cabal to run just use cabal run . -- launch and the like.

Here are some features: