meguca

README

Platforms: Linux, OSX, Win64

License: GNU AGPL

##Features

• Posts and posting
  • Character by character post updates
  • Can edit entire line while writing
  • Hovering quick reply for post authoring
  • Dice roll, coin flip and eightball commands
  • Desktop notifications, post highlighting and "(You)" on quote
  • Post link hover previews, including cross-thread
  • Optional relative post timestamps
  • Image spoilering after closing a post
  • Non-temporal and recursive post linking
  • No posts per thread or threads per board limit
  • Forced anonymity display mode
  • Post hiding
  • Option to display only the last 50 posts in a thread
  • Optional automatic deletion of unused threads and boards
  • Automatic HTTP(S) and magnet URL linkification
• Files and images
  • JPEG, PNG, APNG, WEBM, MP3, MP4, OGG, ZIP, 7Z, TAR.GZ and TAR.XZ supported
  • Transparent PNG and GIF thumbnails
  • Configurable size limits
  • Inbuilt reverse image search
  • No file is ever thumbnailed or stored twice, reducing server load and disk space usage
  • Any file already present on the server is "uploaded and thumbnailed" instantly
• Performance
  • Low memory and CPU usage
  • High vertical and easy horizontal scaling
  • No frameworks and optimized code on both client and server
  • Fast video and audio processing through C bindings to ffmpeg
  • On-demand lazy client module loading and rendering
• Client UI
  • Scrolling compensation prevents post updates from moving the viewport
  • Inbuilt DOM update batching to reduce redraws
  • Multiple themes
  • Custom user-uploaded backgrounds
  • Configurable keyboard shortcuts
  • Work mode aka Boss key
  • Customisable top banner board link list
  • Optional animated GIF thumbnails
  • Settings export/import to/from JSON file
• Board administration
  • User board creation and configuration panels
• Internationalization
  • Client almost entirely localized in multiple languages
  • More languages can be added by editing simple JSON files
• Miscellaneous
  • Optional R/a/dio Now Playing banner
  • Public JSON API

##Runtime dependencies

• RethinkDB. On Linux RethinkDB does not enable a configuration file by default. If you don't want to configure anything, just copy /etc/rethinkdb/default.conf.sample into /etc/rethinkdb/instances.d/instance1.conf.

##Compiled Windows Binaries Compiled binary release archives for windows/x86_64 are downloadable from the release page.

##Setup

• See ./meguca help for server operation
• Login into the "admin" account via the infinity symbol in the top banner with the password "password"
• Change the default password
• Create a board from the administration panel
• Configure server from the administration panel

##Building from source

###All Platforms

• Install
  • Go >=1.7
  • Node.js >=5.0 (for building the client)

###Linux and OSX

• Install
  • GCC or Clang
  • make
  • ffmpeg >= 3.0 development libraries (libavcodec, libavutil, libavformat, libswscale) compiled with
    • libvpx
    • libvorbis
    • libopus
    • libtheora
    • libx264
    • libmp3lame
  • git
  • zip
• Run make

###Windows

• Install MSYS2
• Open MSYS2 shell
• Install with pacman
  • mingw-w64-x86_64-ffmpeg
  • mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc
  • mingw-w64-x86_64-pkg-config
  • git
  • make
  • zip
• Navigate to the meguca root directory
• Run make

##Development

• ./meguca or ./meguca debug run the server in development mode
• make server and make client build the server and client separately
• make watch watches the file system for changes and incrementally rebuilds the client
• make update updates all dependencies and fetches new project sources from the master branch
• make clean removes files from the previous compilation
• make dist_clean in addition to the above removes uploaded files and their thumbnails

###Linux only

• make creates a Go workspace in the .build subdirectory. If you don't have a proper Go workspace set up, you can simply export GOPATH=$(pwd)/.build to temporarily assign .build as your Go workspace in the current shell. This will allow you to use native go commands such as go test and go build.