So, we are just talking about plaintext/markdown here, right? Hackernews comment-tier feature set, but threads stay around forever like reddit? This really doesn't seem like rocket science. The only traces are everything you knowingly placed in the public domain. 1 simple button with a "are you sure" and that's that. All account facts aside from the primary key, email address, hash, salt and iteration count would reside in the public domain, so compliance with regs simply involves allowing the user to remove these items from the system. PBKDF2 scheme over unconstrained passwords with optional 2nd factor of user's choice. Account management would be simple and robust. Hypothetically, If one were to offer something that was hosted and provided a trivial one-click sqlite export facility, would HN generally agree to participate in that sort of ecosystem? A public webhook could be exposed so that enterprising users could build their own replicas or other event-sourced systems on top.
Rivals of aether forums software#
I'm adding this to the pile of projects interesting projects that I'll probably forget about or never finish.ĭevelopment of high-quality forum software is something I have considered undertaking. The annoying chat popups you get in "modern" forums from direct messages would just be bog-standard Matrix chatrooms. Signing up for a forum could be done through a regular Matrix account, without forum accounts for all their users, or it could host its own Matrix account for new subscribers if they choose to partake in chats.
You could make an overlay that renders the entire system as a forum, and people using Matrix chat clients could use it as an instantaneous chat system. You use rooms within rooms for categories and subcategories, and then either use threads (feature in beta) or more subrooms for the topics themselves. Matrix is currently optimized for chat applications, but its "rooms" architecture could prove to be very powerful for building forums.
Rivals of aether forums full#
I don't think it can do the categories to build a full forum system out of it, though. I'm not well-versed in ActivityPub and the systems interacting with it, but I believe Mastodon can do threading at least. I don't know if it exists yet, but I can see ActivityPub (or even Matrix?) be used as a federated method for content sharing by combining the base protocol with some basic grouping and threading.
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