https://github.com/fazo96/ipfs-boards

a truly distributed social platform for the browser with no backend and no external applications required
https://github.com/fazo96/ipfs-boards

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a truly distributed social platform for the browser with no backend and no external applications required

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/fazo96/ipfs-boards
• Owner: fazo96
• Created: 2015-11-04T15:09:10.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-12-07T23:38:21.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-27T12:31:34.550Z (4 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage: http://boards.ydns.eu
• Size: 1.17 MB
• Stars: 219
• Watchers: 22
• Forks: 20
• Open Issues: 9
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
# IPFS Boards

Boards is an experiment with the goal of figuring out whether it's possible to have

a discussion board, forum or social network that works inside a normal browser tab

without relying on servers, desktop applications, browser extensions, the blockchain

or anything else.

The goals in detail:

- all communication should happen in the most distributed way possible using

peer to peer systems

- should work completely offline without anything else other than a web browser

after it's downloaded for the first time 

- all data including assets, code and user created content needs to be distributed

and/or replicated between the users

The project is in prototype stage and works thanks to the [IPFS](https://ipfs.io)

distributed file system.

The first iteration focuses on creating boards, posting content and commenting.

Moderation tools, encryption, friends lists, private messages, real time chat and

other features will be attempted in the future

### Under the hood

This project is a web UI, [orbit-db-discussion-board](https://github.com/fazo96/orbit-db-discussion-board)

is the underlying library

## Try it out

Super early build hosted on IPFS:

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmYT9EzvQY8zwtxQxUhPcphSGR4XtTRkT4MnXmQKPFamQ7

This allows you to create boards and posts. There is no moderation

or commenting yet and a lot of things are super wonky

## Working on the code

This is a react project using redux, react-router-redux and redux-saga

The UI is being implemented using semantic-ui-react

Clone this repo, then run

- `npm install` to install dependencies

- `npm start` to start a development server

- `npm run build` to create a production build

## Old Version

You're looking at the new implementation of Boards. If you want to check out the

old one [follow this link](https://github.com/fazo96/ipfs-boards/tree/legacy)