Negoto Mark III

Negoto is an imageboard.

It is written in Ruby.

It doesn't use ~~Rails~~.

It is pretty good-looking, if I may say so myself. (But you can change that if you don't like it.)

It tries to be simple.

It doesn't try to be fast. (But that doesn't mean it's slow.)

It is quite small.

>> wc -l *.rb **/*.rb **/**/*.^(rb js haml sass)
    ...
    1644 total

This is the third time I've rewritten it, so it's Mark III.

TL Note: negoto means sleep-talking.

Getting it to run

Install these:

Ruby 2.x (possibly 2.3.x)
gem (should be bundled with Ruby)
SQLite
ImageMagick

Then do these:

Run bundle install to install the required gems
Edit negoto.rb (you might need to activate Common Sense 2016 for this)
Run negoto.rb

You should also have these:

A few 300╳100 banners in the public/crests folder
A public/assets folder with the following:
- A 404.jpg file to show on the error page
- A shuko.svg file to show on the front page
- A tile.png file as front page background
- A square spoiler.jpg file as spoiler image

Actually running it

Run negoto.rb. It just werks.

Killing it

If you want to wipe it, just delete db.db, public/thumb and public/src from the data folder.

What it does

All the basic imageboard stuff. It has a front page, a catalog, a thread page, and a readme page. You can post with an image, spoiler, and sage. You can post and get the new posts in a thread without refreshing.

What it doesn't (yet)

Can't ban the twerps and heathens right now. An admin control panel would be easy but it sounds like a pain in the arse. I swear I'll add it one of these days.

Other things

If you're thinking about actually using Negoto, I congratulate you for your taste in imageboard software, but I warn you: you're gonna have to edit a lot of things.

Most settings are hardcoded because I'm too lazy to think of a way to store the configuration, so you're gonna have to read the source code.

It's not hard, there's a little more than 1600 lines of it, counting all the files. I think it's mostly understandable. Except the String.format_post method. I had fun with that one.

I'm available at @steinuil and email and some other things if you need help setting it up.