The project is not maintained at the moment. It was mainly used as a full stack learning experience. You might find a running version on https://flipfacts.net but it will probably go offline when the next server bill is due.
FlipFacts is a website where you can post and rate short statements. However, rating does not just happen based on gut feeling: for each positive or negative rating you must provide a scholarly source that supports or contradicts the statement you want to rate.
Implemented:
- User login and registration with EMail verification
- Profile (edit username, password)
- Users can post new statements
- Users can rate statements by submitting DOIs (or other identifier) of valid publication (shoutout to the free semanticscholar API)
- Logged in users can report bad statements and spam
- Logged in users can report bad sources
- Logged in admins can access moderation page and check reports
- Working tfidf based search
- Working semantic similarity search (shoutout to sentence-transformers)
- Similar posts based on semantic similarity
- 'Browse' page to access and order all existing posts
- Fully responsive and mobile friendly
Possible ToDos:
- Update source metrics regulary (like num citations)
- Server Side Rendering with next.js (meta descriptions for better link previews)
- Better Profile page that shows your own posts and submitted sources
- Commenting or discussion section for statement-phrasing and source quality
cd react-frontend
npm run build
then host the result from the build folder with nginx or apache
Development Server:
cd flask-backend
python run.py
gunicorn is recommended for productive environment
cd flask-backend
gunicorn [workers, threads, port, forward-ips, timeout, ...] run:app
the frontend will send requests to the /api/ route. make sure your server forwards /api/ to the port of the backend there is also an admin panel on /admin/ hosted by the backend. the user has to be logged into an admin account to access.
-NGINX example config:
server {
listen 443;
listen [::]:443;
root /var/www/flipfacts;
index index.html;
server_name flipfacts.net www.flipfacts.net;
location / {
root /var/www/flipfacts;
try_files $uri /index.html;
}
location /api/ {
proxy_pass http://localhost:7600;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
client_max_body_size 1M;
}
location /admin/ {
proxy_pass http://localhost:7600;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
client_max_body_size 1M;
}
ssl on;
ssl_certificate ...
ssl_certificate_key ...
# on port 80 return 301 redirect to https (:443)
}