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Hi, I'm the most active leftypol_lainchan dev for the past few months.
It's pretty fucked.
Tinyboard started over 10 years ago. Then Hotwheels forked it while intoxicated to create vichan. Then Lainchan forked it and hacked it to fit their use-case, breaking things they didn't use like filters and many JS add-ons in the process, and only pulling about half of the upstream since 2015, up until Lainchan stopped being updated. Then leftypol.org foolishly forked it and hacked it to fit our use-case. There's some abysmal config and up-streaming to-dos that I was still sorting through before the drama and a bit of real life put a stop to that.
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Almost true. Development and upstreaming has continued since on leftypol.org (some visible examples are search bar on index page, post filtering, fixed options page and load-speed improvements, plus backend things like anti-spam measures, moderation ease-of-use scripts, fixing error-prone merge/move code from vichan, and fixing database encoding issues for emoji).
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The pre-split code is public (search leftypol_lainchan), the leftypol.org post-split code is still being sorted out (there were lots of rapid bug fixes and improvements made without source control that need to be untangled, then we will be self-hosting a Gitea). While you are certainly welcome to use the code and I am happy to give tips and assistance, consult your doctor first to see if leftypol_lainchan is right for you.
vichan is battle-hardened, but under the surface leaves a lot to be desired. Like comments. That would have been nice.
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