As you probably know Otterchat is currently running on Wakaba, which is a very old imageboard script that apart from me adding stuff to it over the years, it's pretty much unmaintained. And as you can imagine, having to work with someone else's 3000 lines of old perl, it's not been the easiest time for me adding cool features and stuff to the site... I don't know that there are any actual issues with Wakaba security wise, but even the person who developed it says don't use it. And especially after the scare that happened this year with the big 4, i'll trust him and say it's time for something new. So, I've been working away at a whole new imageboard software, just for Otterchat! I figured it's time to share some progress with you guys. The project is called "nobo" which means "new otter board". It's been going alright and after many a weekend it's finally ready enough to be presentable... in screenshot form! There's already some great additions in nobo, such as live updates and multiple attachments per post. I'll update this thread with any progress i can squeeze in, there is a looooot to do still... But yeah, Tl;dr Big otterchat software update in the works! That's all for now.
As you probably know Otterchat is currently running on Wakaba, which is a very old imageboard script that apart from me adding stuff to it over the years, it's pretty much unmaintained. And as you can imagine, having to work with someone else's 3000 lines of old perl, it's not been the easiest time for me adding cool features and stuff to the site... I don't know that there are any actual issues with Wakaba security wise, but even the person who developed it says don't use it. And especially after the scare that happened this year with the big 4, i'll trust him and say it's time for something new.
So, I've been working away at a whole new imageboard software, just for Otterchat! I figured it's time to share some progress with you guys. The project is called "nobo" which means "new otter board". It's been going alright and after many a weekend it's finally ready enough to be presentable... in screenshot form! There's already some great additions in nobo, such as live updates and multiple attachments per post. I'll update this thread with any progress i can squeeze in, there is a looooot to do still... But yeah, Tl;dr Big otterchat software update in the works! That's all for now.
Preview of post previews I wanna have a test site up soon
Preview of post previews
I wanna have a test site up soon
Wow this is really awesome! Thank you for putting all the work that you do into keeping the lights on here, you make the world a better place one otterpost at a time
We have a catalog, and a bit of styling work!>>4245Of course otters deserve a nice place for otterposting
We have a catalog, and a bit of styling work!
>>4245Of course otters deserve a nice place for otterposting
Progress update!I had some time to spare and the going's been good. This is what it looks like as of now after some work on the theme and stuff.What's still missing is: captcha (will probably simplify it), mod interface, more theming, some of the static pages, and figuring out how i'm gonna migrateeverything from wakaba; those would be the most pressing things.And then after that, the otter map and otter news too, which i will probably do up again from scratch. And of course any other cool feature you guys want.
Progress update!
I had some time to spare and the going's been good. This is what it looks like as of now after some work on the theme and stuff.
What's still missing is: captcha (will probably simplify it), mod interface, more theming, some of the static pages, and figuring out how i'm gonna migrateeverything from wakaba; those would be the most pressing things.
And then after that, the otter map and otter news too, which i will probably do up again from scratch. And of course any other cool feature you guys want.
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