Grumplr

Reddit-lite style bulletin board

TL;DR

I like old school bulletin boards, so I tried building my own.

Problem

I'm reinventing the wheel to learn building a bulletin board with Go, writing SQL, vanilla JS. I also wanted to try using authentication SaaS and implementing magic link logins.

Idea

Bulletin board stuff - posts (commenting, replies, liking, upvoting, attachments, tagging), user actions (authentication, authorisation, settings and customizations, anonymous mode), misc (filtering, full text search, simple word matching, image optimization, thumbnail generation), live chat.

Stack

Htmx

Templ

PostgreSQL

Keycloak

Tailwind

Look

What I built

I built what I wrote planned, using Go's stdlib as much as possible.
Posting: Threaded discussions, 2-level deep threads (posts > comments > replies), Options to like and upvote posts, File attachments to share media, Tags to organize content
Live Chat: Near real-time updates using Server Sent Events (in lieu of websockets)
Users: User accounts with authentication and authorization, Profile and settings for customization, Incognition/guest mode
Search: Full text search, Content filtering by word matching
Misc: Image uploads, thumbnails, compression, Brotli and Gzip compression

Not yet done

Polls
Moderation tools
Admin UI and tools