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Anonymous is misspelled.
 
Organic Fapcup said:
Anonymous is misspelled.
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Thanks. I just added that and I'm really tired, lol.

Brings up an interesting point. One of the things I really want to do is international accessibility. Laravel has a built in language framework and this is how it looks inside a language file.

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This is lang/en/boards.php, and if we made a lang/sp/boards.php, we could define something like:

Code: 
'anonymous' => "Anónimo"

That way, anyone using Spanish will see the correct translation for this word. This can be applied to any language specific article on the website.
 
Enig said:
Apple OS X Imageboard.
inb4 a barrage of downboats from plebs who don't know about the BSD debacle
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I don't get the comparison. The codebase will be open source and free to use.

AN/ALR-56 said:
What languages will larachan have?
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I am a native English speaker, but I plan on utilizing Laravel's built-in language system so that anyone can contribute a translation. I'd like to have at least a Spanish and Arabic translation.
 
I added another section to the intro page.

https://larachan.org/

If you guys could do me a favor and read over it to make sure I didn't shit up any typos, I'd appreciate it.
 
copypaste has provided 5 BTC for funding on the condition that the name changes to match the name of the existing Infinity branch.

5 BTC currently translates to about $1,200, which means we've reached the funding level for the first milestone.

The new URL is here:
https://infinitydev.org
 
Sarcastic Username said:
Allman style braces??

You monster!!'

Seriously though, it's more important to have some coding standard than the coding standard I prefer.
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IMO I prefer

Code: 
if( $something == "this" ) {

}

But that's not as popular. I'd rather just copy Laravel and make it look nice. I still have a lot to learn regarding Unit Testing and those weird as fuck comment blocks above functions.
 
Null said:
I don't get the comparison. The codebase will be open source and free to use.
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Only thing I can see is that it could be a reference to the MIT licence, which would be similar to the BSDed code that ended-up in OS X.

Silly comparison though. MIT/BSD and GPL are all solid licences to use, with different strengths and weaknesses. I lean towards BSD and try to avoid the GPL/BSD Akbar crowds. If anything it's a pain in the arse when BSD/MIT projects can't use contributions because someone decided attach GPL to their changes, but that's the risk of using a permissive licence.
 
PantsOfDesire said:
Only thing I can see is that it could be a reference to the MIT licence, which would be similar to the BSDed code that ended-up in OS X.

Silly comparison though. MIT/BSD and GPL are all solid licences to use, with different strengths and weaknesses. I lean towards BSD and try to avoid the GPL/BSD Akbar crowds. If anything it's a pain in the arse when BSD/MIT projects can't use contributions because someone decided attach GPL to their changes, but that's the risk of using a permissive licence.
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I've ended up changing the license to AGPL3 at the advice of copypaste.
 
Hey Null, it took me a while to decide to do it but I threw you $30. I appreciate the work you've done for these forums and wish you the best of luck on your project.

Also I really want to be a Supporter. I'm tired of being a pleb.
 
Philosophy Zombie said:
Hey Null, it took me a while to decide to do it but I threw you $30. I appreciate the work you've done for these forums and wish you the best of luck on your project.

Also I really want to be a Supporter. I'm tired of being a pleb.
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I've upgraded you; thanks for the support.

I'll do a site-wide banner when the project officially launchers. Right now we're just doing grunt work.
 
Project will receive larger exposure tomorrow as copypaste begins seeding the project into public consciousness. I took the banner down after Smokedaddy's passing was known but never put it back up.

I've changed the design to resemble burichan, a common imageboard theme. It can be accessed here:
https://infinitydev.org

The test board is here (NSFW):
https://infinitydev.org/test

The contribute page is here:
https://infinitydev.org/contribute
 
Null said:
(Edit: Tomorrow, this project will begin hitting 8chan's /operate/ board for broader exposure. I am rerunning my banner for a few more days to corroborate this.)

In the last year and a half, we've had two separate fundraisers. Today, I'd like to ask the community to support a different kind of cause.

I've used imageboards since I was 14, and I'm sure between everyone reading this there are untold thousands of hours spent on them. This culture this community imbibes is not the result of a forum or a wiki, it comes from something more simple. While I like forums, I understand their faults. The mere fact that an avatar is present next to my words has altered your opinion of what you are reading. You have internalized everything said thus far differently than you would without those elements, for better or for worse.

Imageboards do not have that. They, of course, center around anonymity. Each idea floats freely in every thread, and are judged only on their own merits. This is why sites like 4chan and 8chan are so influential. There are no barriers; it's the closest thing to a pure exchange we are capable of.

@copypaste runs 8chan, and at some point in September I contributed to its open-source codebase. If you are unfamiliar with development, open-source means anyone is capable of downloading the program for free and modifying it as they see fit. Think Wikipedia, but for entire websites and applications. See, 8chan runs on Infinity, which forks Vichan, which is built off Tinyboard. These three different repositories have many different authors, and in the 5 years or so of development, it has become dilapidated. copypaste's efforts and oversight is by far the brightest spot in this chain, but there's only so much one person and a few bitcoins can do.

Having worked on the code and having shopped around for alternatives, I know that the future for 4chan alternatives is bleak. As 4chan itself is proprietary and increasingly becoming less of a bastion for free speech (as is the rest of the Internet), this is unacceptable. In the last few years I've come to recognize and appreciate the fleeting existence of true free speech on the Internet, and I feel strongly about wanting to preserve it. So, I'm building my own open-source software with the intent of replacing what 8chan runs on.

https://infinitydev.org/

Infinty is my current passion project and I would like to expose it to you all. Despite being in very early stages, at only a few weeks old, its framework has allowed me to flesh out basic posting, account registration, and a fully functioning donation system. With proper funding, I could continue to develop this codebase at such a rate, until it supersedes anything currently available. I estimate this would take only half a year.

I'm not asking for much. At around $2,000 a month, I can work full-time on this project. With that amount, I can fuel my soda addiction and keep the Internet going until my project is complete. Programming is my love, and I don't need much else besides it. Even if this fundraiser fails or falls short and I am forced to pick up another office job, I will continue to work on it, just at a much slower rate.

Even if you have not a penny to give, I can still use your help. Just by reading the fundraiser pages and helping me identify typos, improving my word choice, and giving general advice is helping tremendously and is very well appreciated. I encourage anyone with suggestions to email me at josh@infinitydev.org, or just PM me.


That's all I have to say. The banner on the index page will be taken down in a few days. Thank you for reading.
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Needs moar porns and lulz.
Do you have an idea how you will fight spam but still let people post willy nilly? The capchas really changed 4chan culture as nobody could make a thread out of a folder of reposted pictures.
 
ChuckSlaughter said:
Do you have an idea how you will fight spam but still let people post willy nilly? The capchas really changed 4chan culture as nobody could make a thread out of a folder of reposted pictures.
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There's multiple systems on 8chan I can adopt.
 
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