git.sr.ht/~aw/fishbb

FishBB (Alpha)

Simple, sustainable communities. Minimalist bulliten board software.

Flagship instance at fishbb.fishbb.org.

Tech

go + sqlite

no javascript

12 dependencies, 2000 lines of code

Running

go run main.go

This will setup a database with the admin user with username 'admin' and password 'admin'. You can also set a custom db path:

go build 
./fishbb -path foo.db

Self-hosting

Tagged versions should be stable. Main branch is not guaranteed to be.

FishBB is designed to require a minimal amount of infrastructure and maintenance burden for self-hosting. Please reach out to me [e-mail] if you are interested in running your own instance!

All FishBB data is stored in a single sqlite file. HTML templates are embedded in the Go bindary.

FishBB is VERY early in development -- expect bugs and be very wary of sensitive data. Make sure to change the admin password away from default credentials.

As a package

FishBB also runs as a 'cluster' where multiple forums can be created. These forums can either exist in the 'cluster' (as a sort of broader forum manager) or exported on their own.

The app that hosts the fishbb cluster is https://git.sr.ht/~aw/fishbb-cluster

Configuration

Admin configuration is available at /control

See the comments in config.go for now (better documentation forthcoming)

Google Signup

Your forum can optionally allow Google Signup. You will need to create an OAuth App on Google and set the client ID and client secret in the configuration file.

Contributing

The mailing list for FishBB is at https://lists.sr.ht/~aw/fishbb-devel

Feel free to use the flagship instance as well for project discussion and feedback!

FishBB is free software, if you'd like to, please donate to support development