Database reading changes should work, gotta implement same for writing and finish up testing then merge back into master

Sydication updates
Changing how data is requested in DEV branch
2026-03-07 17:56:53 +00:00 · 2026-03-06 21:26:00 +00:00 · 2026-03-05 13:53:10 +00:00 · 2026-03-03 20:39:40 +00:00 · 2026-01-18 09:41:50 +00:00 · 2026-01-17 21:49:42 +00:00
65 changed files with 2083 additions and 861 deletions
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -4,5 +4,10 @@ posts.json
 comments.json
 users.json
 config.json
+data.json
 hitcount.txt
 *.swp
+data
+images/*
+webroot/custom.css
+webroot/robots.txt
--- a/CONFIG.md
+++ b/CONFIG.md
@@ -1,113 +0,0 @@
-# Configuration Documentation
-## Introduction
-The configuration file is stored in a file called config.json, for an example, copy example-config.json to config.json (`cp example-config.json config.json`) and modify from there.<br/>
-Currently all values in example-config.json are required, however I plan to add support for default values in the case of no value being set.<br/>
-All options show an example configuartion value and the variable type + an explaination below it.<br/>
-
-## Technical configuration
-* "site_url": "https://example.com"<br/>
-    This value defines the url of your site, this used for the RSS feed to link back to post.
-* "port": 8080<br/>
-    Integer. This value defines the port that you run the blog on. Don't change this value if you don't know what that means.
-* "allow_signup": true<br/>
-    Boolean. Defines weather new people should be allowed to signup.
-* "timeline_length": 20<br/>
-    Integer. How many posts will be shown on the timeline (home page).
-* "enable_hitcount": true<br/>
-    Boolean. Enabling the hitcount (a number that represents the amount of front page loads (stored in hitcount.txt)) can slightly slow down loading of the front page.
-* "charset": "UTF-8"<br/>
-    String. This is the value in the <meta charset=""> tag in the html of all pages, you should not change this unless you know why.
-* "root_path": "/path/to/root/of/website"
-    String. Anything in this directory will be in the webroot, so put favicon.ico and anything else here.
-
-## Basic Customisation
-* "seperator": "\<hr/\>"<br/>
-    String. This is what %S represents in the formatting, this will go inbetween posts and generally to seperate out content on pages.
-* "site_name": "My Blog"<br/>
-    String. This is what %Y represents; it's the name of your instance, a human readable string.
-* "site_description": "Read my blogs!"
-    String. This is what %W represents; it's the description of your instance, a human readable string.
-* "default_commenter_username": "Anon"
-    String. Default commenter username if no username is inputted in comment submission.
-
-## Syndication
-* "rss": true<br/>
-    Boolean. Enable or Disable RSS feeds.
-* "rss_path": "/rss"<br/>
-    String. The path of the global rss feed file.
-
-## Dates
-Read more at [date-fns](https://date-fns.org/v4.1.0/docs/format)<br/>
-* "date_format": "yyyy-MM-dd"<br/>
-    String. The format of date's on the website.
-* "time_zone": "+0000"<br/>
-    String. Your offset from UTC
-
-## Advanced Customisation
-All of these customisations support format indicators<br/>
-Format indicatos are a % sign followed by a character and represent a piece of information<br/>
-relevant to the data at hand. Below is a list of all format indicators:<br/>
-* %% - A literal %
-* %A - List of tags
-* %B - List of tags, each one with a hyperlink to that tag page
-* %C - Post content
-* %D - Published date in the format specified by date_format
-* %E - Edited date in the format specified by date_format
-* %F - Pretty name
-* %G - Tag name (used for the tag page only)
-* %H - Frontpage hit count
-* %I - User description
-* %L - URL Permanent link to the post
-* %M - comments
-* %N - the username of the user (poster)
-* %O - URL to edit this post
-* %P - URL to create a new post
-* %Q - URL to sign up
-* %R - Site wide RSS feed
-* %S - post seperator as defined by post_seperator
-* %T - Title
-* %U - URL the the user (poster)
-* %W - Site Description as defined by site_description
-* %X - Comment submission box
-* %Y - Site Name as defined by site_name
-* %Z - Attribution (to me) and source code link and license
-### Header's
-* "timeline_header": "\<h1\>%Y\</h1\>\<h2\>%W\</h2\>\<a href="%P"\>Create Post\</a\>\<br/\>\<a href="%R"\>RSS Feed\</a\>\<br/\>\<a href="%Q"\>Sign Up\</a\>\<br/\>\<a href="%D"\>Delete Account\</a\>\<br/\>Hit count: %H%S"<br/>
-    String. The format of the header peice of the home page/timeline page, example includes the site name, desciption and some relevant links.
-* "user_page_header": "\<h1\>%F's posts:\</h1\>%I%S"<br/>
-    String. The format of the header peice of the user page which contains all posts from a particular user. example includes the prettyname and their description.
-* "tag_page_header": "\<h1\>Posts tagged: %G\</h1\>%S"<br/>
-    String. The format of the header peice of the tag page which contains all posts with a particular tag, example includes the tag name.
-### Post's
-* "user_post_format": "\<h2\>%T\</h2\>\<p\>%C\</p\>\<i\>%B\</i\>\<br/\>\<a href="%L"\>Permalink\</a\>\<\br/\\>%X%M%S"<br/>
-    String. The format of posts on the users page. Example includes title, content, tags, permalink and comments.
-* "post_page_format": "\<h1\>%T\</h1\>\<p\>%C\</p\>\<i\>%B\</i\>\<br/\>\<i\>By \<a href="%U"\>%N\</a\>\</i\>\<br/\>\<a href="%O"\>Edit Post\</a\>\<br/\>\<i\>Posted: %D\</i\>\<br/\>\<i\>Edited: %E\</i\>%S%X%M%S"<br/>
-    String. The format of the post on the post's page. Example includes title, content, tags, user page hyperlink, edit post hyperlink, publish date, modified date and comments.
-* "timeline_post_format": "\<h3\>%T\</h3\>\<p\>%C\</p\>\<a href="%L"\>Permalink\</a\>\<\br/\\>\<i\>By \<a href="%U"\>%N\</a\>\</i\>%X%M%S"<br/>
-    String. The format of the posts on the timeline, example includes title, content, permalink, user page hyperlink and comments.
-* "tag_post_format": "\<h3\>%T\</h3\>\<p\>%C\</p\>\<i\>%B\</i\>\<br/\>\<a href="%L"\>Permalink\</a\>\<br/\>\<i\>By \<a href="%U"\>%N\</a\>\</i\>%S"<br/>
-    String. The format of the posts on the tag page, example includes title, content, permalink and user page hyperlink.
-### Other
-* "site_wide_footer": "Site is ran by DeaDvey\<br/\>%Z"<br/>
-    String. The format of the site wide footer, shown on every page.
-* "css": "body { background: red; }"<br/>
-    String. Custom CSS to be applied to all pages, if you want more complex css, you can edit custom.css.
-
-## Custom Strings
-All of these values are of type String
-* "signup_agreement": "I agree to not post illegal or hateful content"<br/>
-    The agreement people must check to signup for the server.
-* "signups_unavailable": "Sorry, this server does not allow signups"<br/>
-    The string to be displayed if the user tries to signup when signup's are disabled.
-* "user_exists": "Sorry, this user already exists, try a different username"<br/>
-    The string to be shown when someone is trying to signup with a name exists.
-* "user_doesnt_exist": "Sorry, this user does not exist"<br/>
-    The string to be shown when someone tries to edit their account or make a post but the username doesn't exist.
-* "delete_account_confirmation": "I agree that my account and all of my posts will be permanently deleted instantly"<br/>
-    The string to be shown as a confirmation when a user tries to delete their account.
-* "incorrect_password": "Incorrect Password"<br/>
-    The string to be shown if the password is incorrect.
-
-## Other
-* "attribution" = "Powered by blogger-nodejs: <a href='https://git.javalsai.tuxcord.net/deadvey/blogger-nodejs'>Source Code</a>, <a href='https://git.javalsai.tuxcord.net/deadvey/blogger-nodejs/raw/branch/master/LICENSE'>license (WTFPL)</a>"
-    String. Represented by format indicator %Z. Only change this value if you modify the source code or just want to change some of the formatting.
--- a/41
+++ b/41
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+DATA_DIR=data
+WEBROOT_DIR=webroot
+
+all: config css users posts comments data
+clean:
+	rm -rf data
+	rm -f webroot/custom.css
+	rm -f config.json
+
+# config file
+config: config.json
+config.json:
+	cp example-config.json config.json
+	echo '!!!PLEASE MODIFY config.json ACCORDING TO YOUR NEEDS!!!'
+
+# custom.css
+css: $(WEBROOT_DIR)/custom.css
+$(WEBROOT_DIR)/custom.css:
+	mkdir -p webroot
+	echo '* { font-family: sans-serif; }' > $(WEBROOT_DIR)/custom.css
+
+# users.json
+users: $(DATA_DIR)/users.json
+$(DATA_DIR)/users.json:
+	mkdir -p data
+	echo '[]' > $(DATA_DIR)/users.json
+# posts.json
+posts: $(DATA_DIR)/posts.json
+$(DATA_DIR)/posts.json:
+	mkdir -p data
+	echo '[]' > $(DATA_DIR)/posts.json
+# comments.json
+comments: $(DATA_DIR)/comments.json
+$(DATA_DIR)/comments.json:
+	mkdir -p data
+	echo '[]' > $(DATA_DIR)/comments.json
+# data.json
+data: $(DATA_DIR)/data.json
+$(DATA_DIR)/data.json:
+	mkdir -p data
+	echo '{"hitcount": 0}' > $(DATA_DIR)/data.json
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,50 +1,54 @@
-This is a blogging site written in nodejs, all pages are served directly by the nodejs backend.<br/>
-And all data is stored in plaintext<br/>
-Please don't use this yet, it's not finished<br/>
+This software aims to provide a lot of power to the web admin who is running the blog site.<br/>
+Customisation is unlimited with a bit of knowledge of EJS and CSS, you can edit the entire formatting of the pages, making the site truly yours!<br/>
+This software also aims to be compatible with text based browsers and as a result contains no client side Javascript, if you're looking for a more<br/>
+beautiful and featureful blogging frontend, this isn't for you.<br/>
+The AI robots.txt file is from [ai.robots.txt (MIT)](https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt)<br/>
+
+> [!CAUTION]
+> This software is not finished yet, so it's very buggy and probably really insecure<br/>
+> use at your own risk!<br/>
+
 See the software in action: [deadvey.com](https://deadvey.com)<br/>

-# Confiuration
-Read the [configuation guide](CONFIG.md) for configuration help (in config.json)
+# Installation and Running:
+Read the [installation guide](/docs/INSTALLATION.md)

-# Features
-* post creation via the web frontend (no need to remote to your server to make a post)
+# Confiuration:
+Read the [configuation guide](docs/CONFIG.md) for configuration help (in config.json)
+
+# Features:
+* post creation, modification and deletion via frontend
+* user creation, modification and deletion via frontend
 * multi user
-* powerful customisation
-* rss
-* timeline, user page, post page and tag specific page
-* edit/delete posts
-* hitcount
+* powerful customisation via EJS
+* Configuration via config.json
+* site wide and user specific rss, atom
 * Markdown syntax in posts
-* Commenting on posts
-* sign up and delete account
-* ejs
+* Commenting on posts and replying to other comments
+* site wide custom CSS and strings
+* Search functionality
+* Page indexes

-# Bugs
+# Bugs:
 * probably scales like shit
 * probably insecure as hell

-# Planned features/todo list
-* custom CSS _file_
-* custom strings use format indicators
-* seperate functions into modules
-* user specific RSS feeds
-* atom
+# Planned features/todo list:
 * federation (looks tricky)
-* All strings (including in edit and post page) customisable
-    * formatable custom strings
-* split code into files to tidy it up a bit
 * inline comments and docs
-* give each post a hard postID to prevent potential issues
 * clean up code a bit
-* comment pages?
+* /postID and /userID pages
+* Make EJS modification more user friendly (half done)
+* API for returning posts, users, comments, tags other?...
+* Moderation tools including a keyword blacklist
+* Request account function? Not sure how this should be implemented.
+* optional SQL
+* initialisation has prompts for setup process.

-TODO (not finished)
-# EJS variable names
-* config.variable_name - pass any variable in config.json
-* hitcount - value in hitcount.txt (a single number)
-## Posts (/views/posts/)
-* post - an object that includes the data for that post, eg post.title, post.content etc
-* user - the object of the user who posted this
-* index - an int that refers to the index of the current post
-## Comments (/views/partials/comment.ejs)
-* comment - an object storing the comment, eg comment.name, comment.content
+# Docs:
+See [docs/DOCUMENTATION.md](docs/DOCUMENTATION.md)
+
+# Customisation:
+Customisation of settings can be done via the config.json file (use example-config.json as an example) and see [the configuration guide](docs/CONFIG.md)<br/>
+Additionaly, more complex configuration of the precise template of the whole site, can be done via [EJS](https://ejs.co/) (in /views) (see [the list of things variables and functions available in EJS](docs/EJS.md) (you will need to understand EJS syntax and JavaScript, to customise this (why did I use EJS? well I originally had this weird system of format indicators with percent (%) signs and stuff (like in unix's date (`date`)) but then I was told EJS is better and it sure is, though it is a bit harder to understand but MUCH more powerful!))
+Also, if you want to change any of the strings on the website, please modify or create a new, customised locale in /locales
--- a/app.js
+++ b/app.js
@@ -1,552 +0,0 @@
-// Get the libraries
-const fs = require('fs'); // For modifying and reading files
-const express = require('express'); // For running a webserver in nodejs
-const showdown  = require('showdown') // For converting markdown to html on demand, https://showdownjs.com/
-const crypto = require('crypto'); // For encrypting passwords, I use sha512
-// fromUnixTime(): Create a date from a Unix timestamp (in seconds). Decimal values will be discarded.
-// format(): Return the formatted date string in the given format. The result may vary by locale.
-// getUnixTime(): Get the seconds timestamp of the given date.
-// find out more at https://date-fns.org/ \or docs: https://date-fns.org/docs/Getting-Started
-const { fromUnixTime, format, getUnixTime } = require("date-fns") // A date utility library
-const ejs = require("ejs")
-const func = require("./functions.js")
-
-// There's only one possible argument, so we can just check if the user passed that one
-// TODO I plan on adding more such as --help and --post so I should make this more robust at some point
-if (process.argv[2] == "--first-time") {
-    initialise() // Creates any files such users.js, posts.js, comments.js or config.js if they are not present
-}
-
-// Define the modules now so they are global
-let users // contains a list of users, each user is an object containing username,prettyname,hash and description
-let posts // contains a list of posts,
-let comments // contains a list of comments
-let config // contains a set of configuration for the site, see example-config.js for an example
-let ejs_templates
-
-try {
-    // We're going to try and import the modules,
-    users = require('./users.json');
-    posts = require('./posts.json');
-    comments = require('./comments.json');
-    config = require('./config.json');
-    ejs_templates = require("./ejs-templates.js")
-}
-catch (error) {
-    // if they don't all import then 
-    // inform the user to pass --first-time and exit with an error code
-    console.log("A file is missing!")
-    console.log("Run with --first-time to initialise the program")
-    console.log(error)
-    process.exit(1)
-}
-
-// https://showdownjs.com/docs/available-options
-let converter = new showdown.Converter({
-    simpleLineBreaks: true, // Parse line breaks as <br/> in paragraphs (GitHub-style behavior).
-    tables: true, // Enable support for tables syntax.
-    strikethrough: true, // Enable support for strikethrough: ~~text~~
-    tasklists: true, // Enable support for GitHub style tasklists. - [x] and - [ ]
-    encodeEmails: true, //Enable automatic obfuscation of email addresses. emails are encoded via character entities
-    headerLevelStart: 3, //Set starting level for the heading tags.
-})
-
-// The footer div is globale because it's a site wide, so define it here
-let footer_div = config.site_wide_footer
-footer_div = replace_format_indicators(footer_div)
-
-// Define stuff to do with express (nodejs webserver)
-const app = express();
-app.use(express.urlencoded({ extended: true }));
-app.use(express.json());
-app.use(express.static(config.root_path));
-// set the view engine to ejs
-app.set('view engine', 'ejs');
-
-// Initialise the program by creating users.js, comments.js, posts.js and config.js
-// All require default content in them to start off with
-// Then exit successfully
-// returns nothing
-function initialise() {
-    try {
-        const users = require("./users.js");
-    }
-    catch (error) {
-        console.log("Creating users file")
-        fs.writeFileSync(`${__dirname}/users.json`, `{\n"users": []\n}`)
-    }
-    try {
-        const posts = require("./posts.json");
-    }
-    catch (error) {
-        console.log("Creating posts file")
-        fs.writeFileSync(`${__dirname}/posts.json`, `{\n"posts": []\n}`)
-    }
-    try {
-        const comments = require("./comments.json");
-    }
-    catch (error) {
-        console.log("Creating comments file")
-        fs.writeFileSync(`${__dirname}/comments.json`, `{\n"comments": [],\n"counter": 0}`)
-    }
-    try {
-        const config = require("./config.js");
-    }
-    catch (error) {
-        console.log("Copying the example config to config.js")
-        console.log("!!! PLEASE MODIFY config.js TO YOUR NEEDS !!!")
-        fs.copyFile('example-config.js', 'config.js', (err) => {
-            console.log("Error copying file")
-        })
-    }
-    console.log("Successfully initialised")
-    process.exit(0)
-}
-
-// The users are stored as a list of objects [ user_object, user_object, user_object ]
-// So you cannot easily find the userID (position in list) from the username
-// This function returns the username for a given userID by looping over every user
-// if the user is present, it returns the index of the user (integer)
-// if the user is not present it returns -1
-function get_userID(username) {
-	for (let i = 0; i < users.length; i++) { // Loop over every user
-		if (users[i]['username'] == username) {
-			return i // If the username matches then return the index of that user
-		}
-	}
-	return -1 // If user is not present, return -1
-}
-
-
-// This is similar to the above function, however, instead of formatting to the users
-// configuration, it formats to RFC-822 which is the date format used by RSS feeds
-// eg "Mon, 23 May 2025 18:59:59 +0100"
-// accepts unix time (int)
-// returns the formatted date (string)
-function unix_time_to_rss_date(unix_time) {
-	date = fromUnixTime(unix_time)
-	formatted_date = format(date, "EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss")
-	return `${formatted_date} ${config.time_zone}`
-}
-
-// This function accepts a list of strings eg ["string1","string2,"string3"] (any length)
-// then returns a string of them each pointing to a seperate url
-// eg "<a href="/tag/string1">string1</a>, <a href="/tag/string2">string2</a>, <a href="/tag/string3">string3</a>"
-// this is so you can have a list of tags that each point to their individual tag page
-// returns: string
-function hyperlink_tags(tags) {
-	string = "" // Initialises the string
-	for (let tag_index = 0; tag_index < tags.length; tag_index++) { // Loop over each tag
-		string += `<a href="/tag/${tags[tag_index]}">${tags[tag_index]}</a>` // Adds the tag to the string as a HTML href
-		if (tag_index < tags.length - 1) { // If there are more tags, then insert a comma
-			string += ", ";
-		}
-	}
-	return string
-}
-
-// See the readme format indicators section for a full list of format indicators
-// This function replaces the format indicators in a template to the content they represent
-// accepts the template (string),
-// the post index (int) as an optional paramter to indicate what post is to be used (for replacing things like content and titles of posts)
-// the tag (strig) as an optional parameter to indicate what tag is being used (for /tag/:tag pages)
-// the user index (int) is an optional parameter to indicate what user is to be used (for replacng things like the header of the user page)
-// returns the template with it's format indiactors replaced (string)
-function replace_format_indicators(template, post_index=-1, tag_name="tag", user_index=-1) {
-    output_string = template // These should always be replaceable
-            .replaceAll("%%", "&#37;")
-            .replaceAll("%J", "/delete_account")
-            .replaceAll("%P", "/post")
-            .replaceAll("%O", `/edit/${post_index}`)
-            .replaceAll("%Q", "/signup")
-            .replaceAll("%R", "/rss")
-            .replaceAll("%Y", config.site_name)
-            .replaceAll("%W", config.site_description)
-            .replaceAll("%Z", config.attribution)
-            .replaceAll("%S", config.seperator)
-    if (post_index >= 0) { // These can only be replaced if a post is specified (by default the post id is -1)
-	    post_object = posts[post_index] // Defines the post object for easy reference
-        output_string = output_string
-            .replaceAll("%A", (post_object["tags"]))
-            .replaceAll("%B", (hyperlink_tags(post_object["tags"])))
-            .replaceAll("%C", converter.makeHtml(post_object["content"]))
-            //.replaceAll("%D", unix_time_to_date_format(post_object["pubdate"]))
-            //.replaceAll("%E", unix_time_to_date_format(post_object["editdate"]))
-            .replaceAll("%F", users[post_object["userID"]]['prettyname'])
-            .replaceAll("%G", tag_name)
-            .replaceAll("%I", converter.makeHtml(users[post_object['userID']]['description']))
-            .replaceAll("%L", `/post/${post_index}`)
-            .replaceAll("%M", return_comments(post_index))
-            .replaceAll("%N", users[post_object["userID"]]['username'])
-            .replaceAll("%S", config.seperator)
-            .replaceAll("%T", post_object["title"])
-            .replaceAll("%U", `/user/${users[post_object["userID"]]['username']}`)
-            .replaceAll("%X", `<form method="POST" action="/submit_comment">
-                    <input type="hidden" name="post_index" value="${post_index}">
-                    <input placeholder="username" name="name"><br/>
-                    <textarea placeholder="comment" name="content"></textarea><br/>
-                    <button type="submit">Submit</button>
-                </form>`)
-    }
-    if (user_index >= 0) { // these should only be replaced if a user is specified (by default the user id is -1)
-        output_string = output_string
-            .replaceAll("%F", users[user_index]['prettyname'])
-            .replaceAll("%G", tag_name)
-            .replaceAll("%I", converter.makeHtml(users[user_index]['description']))
-            .replaceAll("%L", `/post/${post_index}`)
-            .replaceAll("%N", users[user_index]['username'])
-            .replaceAll("%S", config.seperator)
-            .replaceAll("%U", `/user/${users[user_index]['username']}`)
-    }
-    if (config.enable_hitcount == true) { // Finally, the hitcounter should only be replaced if config.enable_hitcount is true
-        output_string = output_string
-            .replaceAll("%H", fs.readFileSync('hitcount.txt'))
-    }
-
-	return output_string
-}
-
-// This escapes some potentially dangerous HTML characters with their HTML entities
-// https://www.freeformatter.com/html-entities.html
-// accepts a string
-// returns a string with some character replaced by their entities
-function escape_input(input) {
-    let output = input
-        .replaceAll("<", "&lt;")
-        .replaceAll(">", "&gt;")
-        .replaceAll("\\", "&#92;")
-        .replaceAll('"', "&#34;")
-        .replaceAll("'", "&#39;")
-        .replaceAll("/", "&#47;")
-        .replaceAll("%", "&#37;")
-    return output
-}
-
-// TODO make the formatting customisable
-function return_comments(post_id) {
-    const post_comments = comments.comments[post_id]
-    let comment_content = ""
-    for (let comment_index = 0; comment_index < post_comments.length; comment_index++) {
-        let comment = {...post_comments[comment_index]};
-        comment['content'] = comment['content']
-            .replaceAll(/>> ([0-9]*)/g, "<a href='#$1'>>> $1</a>")
-            .replaceAll(/&gt;&gt; ([0-9]*)/g, "<a href='#$1'>>> $1</a>")
-            .replaceAll("\n", "<br/>")
-        //comment_content += `<div id="${comment['id']}">${comment['name']} ${unix_time_to_date_format(comment['pubdate'])} No. ${comment['id']}<br/>${comment['content']}</div><br/>`
-    }
-    return comment_content
-}
-
-// RSS protocol gets
-app.get(config.rss_url, (req,res) => {
-	if (config.rss == false) {
-		res.send("Sorry, RSS is disabled!")
-	}
-	else {
-		let rss_content = `<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
-<rss version="2.0">
-    <channel>
-        <title>${config.site_name}</title>
-        <link>${config.site_url}</link>
-        <description>${config.site_description}</description>
-        `
-		for (let i = posts.length-1; i >= 0; i--) {
-		    rss_content += `
-			<item>
-			    <title>${posts[i]["title"]}</title>
-			    <link>${config.site_url}/post/${i}</link>
-			    <description><![CDATA[${converter.makeHtml(posts[i]["content"])}]]></description>
-			    <guid isPermaLink="true">${config.site_url}/post/${i}</guid>
-			    <pubDate>${unix_time_to_rss_date(posts[i]['pubdate'])}</pubDate>`
-			for (let j = 0; j < posts[i]['tags'].length; j++) {
-				rss_content += `<category><![CDATA[${posts[i]['tags'][j]}]]></category>`
-			};
-			rss_content += "</item>"
-		}
-		rss_content += `
-	    </channel>
-	</rss>`
-		res.setHeader('content-type', 'application/rss+xml');
-		res.send(rss_content)
-	};
-});
-
-app.get("/", (req,res) => {
-    // Increment the hitcount
-	if (config.enable_hitcount) {
-		let hitcount = parseInt(fs.readFileSync('hitcount.txt'))
-		hitcount += 1
-		console.log(`/ Is loaded, hitcount: ${hitcount}`)
-		fs.writeFileSync(`${__dirname}/hitcount.txt`, `${hitcount}`, 'utf-8');
-	}
-
-    res.render("pages/timeline",
-        {
-            config: config,
-            posts: posts,
-            users: users,
-            comments: comments.comments,
-            hitcount: fs.readFileSync("hitcount.txt"),
-            fromUnixTime: fromUnixTime,
-            format: format,
-            getUnixTime: getUnixTime,
-            hyperlink_tags: hyperlink_tags,
-        })
-}); // /
-app.get("/user/:username", (req, res) => {
-    const userID = get_userID(req.params.username)
-    console.log(userID)
-    console.log(users[userID].prettyname)
-    res.render("pages/user",
-        {
-            config: config,
-            posts: posts,
-            user: users[userID],
-            userID: userID,
-            comments: comments.comments,
-            fromUnixTime: fromUnixTime,
-            format: format,
-            getUnixTime: getUnixTime,
-            hyperlink_tags: hyperlink_tags,
-        })
-}); // /user/:username
-app.get("/post/:post_index", (req, res) => {
-    const postID = req.params.post_index
-    res.render("pages/post",
-        {
-            config,
-            post: posts[postID],
-            postID: postID,
-            user: users[posts[postID].userID],
-            comments: comments.comments[postID],
-            fromUnixTime,
-            format,
-            getUnixTime,
-            hyperlink_tags,
-        })
-}); // /post/:post_index
-app.get("/tag/:tag", (req,res) => {
-    const tag = req.params.tag
-    res.render("pages/tag",
-        {
-            config: config,
-            tag: tag,
-            posts: posts,
-            users: users,
-            comments: comments.comments,
-            fromUnixTime: fromUnixTime,
-            format: format,
-            getUnixTime: getUnixTime,
-            hyperlink_tags: hyperlink_tags,
-        })
-}); // /tag/:tag
-
-app.get(config.new_post_url, (req,res) => {
-	res.send(`</html><head><meta charset="${config.charset}"><style>${config.css}</style></head><form action="/submit_post" method="POST">
-	<input placeholder="username" required name="username"><br/>
-	<input placeholder="password" type="password" required id="password" name="password"><br/>
-	<input placeholder="title" required name="title"><br/>
-	<textarea placeholder="post content*" required name="content"></textarea><br/>
-	<input placeholder="Tags (comma seperated)" name="tags"><br/>
-	<input type="submit" value="Submit"><br/>
-    <small>* Markdown supported</small>
-</form></html>`);
-}); // /post
-app.get(config.signup_url, (req,res) => {
-    // if the server does allow signup
-    if (config.allow_signup == true) {
-        // Send the page for signing up to the server
-        res.send(`</html><head><meta charset="${config.charset}"><style>${config.css}</style></head><form action="/submit_signup" method="POST">
-        <input placeholder="username" required name="username"><br/>
-        <input placeholder="prettyname" required name="prettyname"><br/>
-        <input placeholder="password" type="password" required id="password" name="password"><br/>
-        <textarea placeholder="description (social links, what you do etc), supports markdown" id="description" name="description"></textarea><br/>
-        <label>${config.signup_agreement}: </label><input type="checkbox" name="agreement" required><br/>
-        <input type="submit" value="Submit"><br/></form></html>`);
-    }
-    // if the server does not allow signup
-    else if (config.allow_signup == false) {
-        res.send(`</html><head><meta charset="${config.charset}"><style>${config.css}</style></head><body>${config.signups_unavailable}</body></html>`)
-    }
-    // If allow_signup is undefined or not a boolean, error
-    else {
-        res.redirect(301,"/")
-        console.log("Error, invalid value for allow_signup (bool)")
-    }
-}); // /signup
-app.get(config.delete_account_url, (req,res) => {
-        res.send(`</html><head><meta charset="${config.charset}"><style>${config.css}</style></head><form action="/submit_delete_account" method="POST">
-        <input placeholder="username" required name="username"><br/>
-        <input placeholder="password" type="password" required id="password" name="password"><br/>
-        <label>${config.delete_account_confirmation}: </label><input type="checkbox" name="agreement" required><br/>
-        <input type="submit" value="Submit"><br/></form></html>`);
-}); // /delete_account
-app.get(`${config.edit_post_base_url}/:post_id`, (req,res) => {
-	const post_id = req.params.post_id
-	const post = posts[post_id]
-	const user = users[post['userID']]
-	res.send(`</html><head><meta charset="${config.charset}"><style>${config.css}</style></head>
-	<form action="/submit_edit" method="POST" onsubmit="sha512password()">
-		<input name="userID" type="hidden" value="${post['userID']}">
-		<input name="postID" type="hidden" value="${post_id}">
-		<input placeholder="${user['prettyname']}'s password" type="password" required id="password" name="password"><br/>
-		<input placeholder="title" value="${post['title']}" required name="title"><br/>
-		<textarea placeholder="content" required name="content">${post['content']}</textarea><br/>
-		<input placeholder="tags (comma seperated)" value="${post['tags']}" name="tags"><br/>
-		<label>Delete forever (no undo): </label><input name="delete" type="checkbox"><br/>
-		<input type="submit" value="Submit"><br/>
-        <small>* Markdown supported</small>
-	</form></html>`);
-}); // /edit/:post_id
-
-app.post("/submit_comment", (req,res) => {
-	const unix_timestamp = getUnixTime(new Date())
-    let name = escape_input(req.body.name)
-    if (name == "") {
-        name = config.default_commenter_username
-    }
-    new_comment = {
-        "name": name,
-        "content": escape_input(req.body.content),
-        "id": comments.counter,
-        "pubdate": unix_timestamp
-    };
-    let counter = comments.counter+1;
-    comments.comments[req.body.post_index].push(new_comment);
-	fs.writeFileSync(`${__dirname}/comments.json`, `${JSON.stringify(comments)}`, 'utf-8');
-
-    res.redirect(301,`/post/${req.body.post_index}`)
-}); // /submit_comment
-app.post("/submit_post", (req,res) => {
-	const password = crypto.createHash('sha512').update(req.body.password).digest('hex');
-	const username = escape_input(req.body.username)
-	const title = escape_input(req.body.title)
-	const content = escape_input(req.body.content)
-	const tags = escape_input(req.body.tags).split(',');
-	const unix_timestamp = getUnixTime(new Date())
-
-	if (get_userID(username) == -1) {
-        res.send(`</html><head><meta charset="${config.charset}"><style>${config.css}</style></head><body>${config.user_doesnt_exit}</body></html>`)
-	}
-
-	else if (users[get_userID(username)]['hash'] == password) { // Password matches
-	    console.log(username, "is submitting a post titled:", title);
-		posts.push({
-			"userID": get_userID(username),
-			"title": title,
-			"content": content,
-			"pubdate": unix_timestamp,
-			"editdate": unix_timestamp,
-			"tags": tags,
-		})
-		fs.writeFileSync(`${__dirname}/posts.json`, `${JSON.stringify(posts)}`, 'utf-8');
-        comments.comments.push([])
-        fs.writeFileSync(`${__dirname}/comments.json`, `${JSON.stringify(comments)}`)
-		res.redirect(302, "/");
-	}
-	else {
-        res.send(`</html><head><meta charset="${config.charset}"><style>${config.css}</style></head><body>${config.incorrect_password}</body></html>`)
-	}
-}); // /submit_post
-app.post("/submit_signup", (req,res) => {
-    const password =  crypto.createHash('sha512').update(req.body.password).digest('hex');
-    const username = escape_input(req.body.username)
-    const prettyname = escape_input(req.body.prettyname)
-    const description = escape_input(req.body.description)
-
-    // Check that signups are allowed
-    if (config.allow_signup == true) {
-        // get_userID will return -1 if the user does not exist
-        // so this checks that the user does not exist
-        if (get_userID(username) == -1) {
-            users.push({
-                "username": username,
-                "prettyname": prettyname,
-                "hash": password,
-                "description": description,
-            })
-            fs.writeFileSync(`${__dirname}/users.json`, `${JSON.stringify(users)}`, 'utf-8');
-            res.redirect(301, `/user/${username}`)
-        }
-        // if the user does exist then
-        else {
-            res.send(`</html><head><meta charset="${config.charset}"><style>${config.css}</style></head><body>${config.user_exists}</body></html>`)
-        }
-    }
-    else if (config.allow_signup == false) {
-        res.send(`</html><head><meta charset="${config.charset}"><style>${config.css}</style></head><body>${config.signups_unavailable}</body></html>`)
-    }
-    // If allow_signup is undefined or not a boolean, error
-    else {
-        res.redirect(301,"/")
-        console.log("Error, invalid value for allow_signup (bool)")
-    }
-}); // /submit_signup
-app.post("/submit_delete_account", (req,res) => {
-    // Get the form info
-    const password = crypto.createHash("sha512").update(req.body.password).digest("hex");
-    const username = escape_input(req.body.username)
-    // get the userID
-    const userID = get_userID(username)
-
-    if (userID >= 0) { // The user exists
-        if (password == users[userID]['hash']) { // password matches
-            console.log(username, "(userID:", userID, ") is trying deleting their account")
-            // Delete the user
-            users.splice(userID,1)
-            // Delete all their posts
-            for (let postid = 0; postid < posts.length; postid++) { // loop over all posts
-                if (posts[postid]['userID'] == userID) { // if userID matches
-                    posts.splice(postid,1) // delete the post
-                    comments.comments.splice(postid,1) // the comments for this post should also be delete
-                }
-            };
-            // Write these changes
-            fs.writeFileSync(`${__dirname}/users.json`, `${JSON.stringify(users)}`, 'utf-8');
-		    fs.writeFileSync(`${__dirname}/posts.json`, `${JSON.stringify(posts)}`, 'utf-8'); 
-	        fs.writeFileSync(`${__dirname}/comments.json`, `${JSON.stringify(comments.comments)}\nexport const counter = ${comments.counter}`, 'utf-8');
-            res.redirect(301,"/")
-        }
-        else { // password does not match
-            res.send(`</html><head><meta charset="${config.charset}"><style>${config.css}</style></head><body>${config.incorrect_password}</body></html>`)
-        };
-    }
-    else {
-        res.send(`</html><head><meta charset="${config.charset}"><style>${config.css}</style></head><body>${config.user_doesnt_exist}</body></html>`)
-    }
-}); // /submit_delete_account
-app.post("/submit_edit", (req,res) => {
-	const password = crypto.createHash('sha512').update(req.body.password).digest('hex');
-	const postID = req.body.postID
-	const userID = req.body.userID
-	const title = req.body.title
-	const content = req.body.content
-	const tags = req.body.tags.split(',');
-	const delete_bool = req.body.delete
-	const unix_timestamp = getUnixTime(new Date())
-	console.log(users[userID]['prettyname'], "is editting the post titled:", title);	
-
-	if (users[userID]['hash'] == password) { // password matches
-		let post = posts[postID]
-		post['title'] = title
-		post['content'] = content
-		post['tags'] = tags
-		post['editdate'] = unix_timestamp
-		if (typeof delete_bool != "undefined") {
-			console.log("Deleting post!")
-			posts.splice(postID,1)
-            comments.comments.splice(postID,1)
-		    fs.writeFileSync(`${__dirname}/comments.json`, `${JSON.stringify(comments.comments)}\nexport const counter = ${comments.counter}`, 'utf-8');
-		}
-		fs.writeFileSync(`${__dirname}/posts.json`, `${JSON.stringify(posts)}`, 'utf-8');
-		res.redirect(302, "/");
-	}
-	else {
-		res.send(`Invalid Password for user`,users[userID]['prettyname']);
-	}
-}); // /submit_edit
-
-app.listen(config.port, () => {
-	console.log(`Server is running at http://localhost:${config.port} webroot: ${config.root_path}`);
-    console.log("Running in: ", __dirname)
-});
--- a/custom.css
+++ b/custom.css
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-example-custom.css
--- a/docs/CLASSES_AND_IDS.md
+++ b/docs/CLASSES_AND_IDS.md
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+Post:
+
+![images/post-css.png](An image showing the css id's assosciated with each part of a post)
+
--- a/docs/CONFIG.md
+++ b/docs/CONFIG.md
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+# Configuration Documentation
+## Introduction
+The configuration file is stored in a file called config.json, for an example, copy example-config.json to config.json (`cp example-config.json config.json`) and modify from there.<br/>
+Currently all values in example-config.json are required, however I plan to add support for default values in the case of no value being set.<br/>
+All options show an example configuartion value and the variable type + an explaination below it.<br/>
+
+## Technical configuration
+| name            | example value              | variable type | explanation                                                                                                                                                |
+|-----------------|----------------------------|---------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| site_url        | "https://example.com"      | String        | This value defines the url of your site, this used for the RSS feed to link back to post.                                                                  |
+| port            | 8080                       | Integer       | This value defines the port that you run the blog on. Don't change this value if you don't know what that means.                                           |
+| allow_signup    | true                       | Boolean       | Defines weather new people should be allowed to signup.                                                                                                    |
+| timeline_length | 20                         | Integer       | How many posts will be shown on the timeline (home page).                                                                                                  |
+| enable_hitcount | true                       | Boolean       | Enabling the hitcount (a number that represents the amount of front page loads (stored in hitcount.txt)) can slightly slow down loading of the front page. |
+| charset         | "UTF-8"                    | String        | This is the value in the <meta charset=""> tag in the html of all pages, you should not change this unless you know why.                                   |
+| root_path       | "/path/to/root/of/website" | String        | Anything in this directory will be in the webroot, so put favicon.ico and anything else here.                                                              |
+| data_storage    | "json"                     | String        | JSON is currently the only supported format, but SQL is going to be added/is a work in progress |
+| cache_data      | true                       | Boolean       | Not caching data means you can edit the posts, users, comments etc, maunally and not have to restart the server, however, for large instances this is not reccomended as  it takes longer to load the required data. Note: config.json always needs a restart |
+| request_data_limit | 20                      | Integer       | The maximum number of objects to return (latest), so if set to 20, then only the 20 most recent posts will ever show |
+| root_path       | '/var/www/blog_root'       | String        | Relative or Absolute path to the root directory of your static content, holds files such as favicon.ico, custom.css and robots.txt |
+| locale | 'en_GB' | String | The locale to use which determines the language used and minor cultural differences |
+## Basic Customisation
+| name            | example value              | variable type | explanation                                                                                                                                                |
+|-----------------|----------------------------|---------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
+|locale|"en-US"|String|Your locale, see [/locales](/locales) for a list of all locales (you can open a PR for a new translation too)|
+|seperator|"\<hr/\>"|String|By default, this will go inbetween posts and generally to seperate out content on pages.|
+|site_name|"Pete's Blogging Site!"|String|It's the name of your blog site, a human readable string.|
+|site_description|"Read my blogs!"|String|This is what %W represents; it's the description of your instance, a human readable string.|
+|default_commenter_username|"Anon"|String|Default commenter username if no username is inputted in comment submission.|
+
+## Syndication
+| name | example value | variable type | explanation                   |
+|------|---------------|---------------|-------------------------------|
+| rss  | true          | Boolean       | Enable or Disable RSS feeds.  |
+| atom | true          | Boolean       | Enable or Disable ATOM feeds. |
+
+## Dates
+Read more at [date-fns](https://date-fns.org/v4.1.0/docs/format)<br/>
+| name | example value | variable type | explanation                   |
+|------|---------------|---------------|-------------------------------|
+|date_format|"yyyy-MM-dd"|String|The format of date's on the website.|
+|time_zone|"+0000"|String|Your offset from UTC|
+
+## Advanced Customisation
+* /views/* files are EJS files (used for formatting HTML) and can be editted to your liking, you might want to read [the EJS docs](https://ejs.co/#docs) for help.
+* "css": "body { background: red; }"<br/>
+    String. Custom CSS to be applied to all pages, if you want more complex css, you can edit custom.css.<br/>
+    You can also edit the custom.css file in the webroot, as by default this is linked in the global header.
+* You can create a file called custom.css in the webroot and that will be loaded as a style onto every page.
+
+## Custom Strings
+* You can edit all the strings on the site in /locales/\<your-locale>.json
--- a/docs/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/docs/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Just open a PR or something, if it's good I'll pull
--- a/docs/DOCUMENTATION.md
+++ b/docs/DOCUMENTATION.md
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+All documentation is under construction as the program is also under construction and so is constantly changing and is also a mess and I'm shit at documentation
+- [EJS Variables and functions](EJS.md)
+- [configuring config.json](CONFIG.md)
+- [Contributing](CONTRIBUTING.md)
--- a/docs/EJS.md
+++ b/docs/EJS.md
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+This is not a guide on how EJS works, look at [EJS's website](https://ejs.co/) for that!<br/>
+This is just a list of functions and pieces of information provided to each EJS file.<br/>
+<br/>
+# syndication/global_rss:
+- All config.json data
+- All posts from posts.json
+- showdown.JS's converter functions
+- All functions in functions.js
+# syndication/user_rss:
+- All config.json data
+- All posts from posts.json
+- showdown.JS's converter functions
+- All functions in functions.js
+- the userID of the user in question (integer)
+# syndication/global_atom:
+- All config.json data
+- All posts from posts.json
+- showdown.JS's converter functions
+- All functions in functions.js
+- getUnixTime function from date-fns
+# syndication/user_atom:
+- All config.json data
+- All posts from posts.json
+- showdown.JS's converter functions
+- All functions in functions.js
+- the userID of the user in question (integer)
+- getUnixTime function from date-fns
--- a/docs/INSTALLATION.md
+++ b/docs/INSTALLATION.md
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# Installation
+This program is currently just ran manually.<br/>
+All you need to do is clone the git repository:<br/>
+```git clone https://git.javalsai.tuxcord.net/deadvey/blogger-nodejs.git```<br/>
+Then run the Makefile:<br/>
+```make```
+Then you should modify config.json in / to suit your needs.<br/>
+# Running
+I would reccomend running the program in tmux so it does not stop running when you close the terminal window.<br/>
+• There is currently no init system support. I might add this later (or you could open a PR).
--- a/docs/images/post-css.png
+++ b/docs/images/post-css.png
--- a/ejs-templates.js
+++ b/ejs-templates.js
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-export let timeline = '<html><head><meta charset="<%=charset%>"><style></style></head><body><div id="header">${header_div}</div><div id="posts">${posts_div}</div></body><footer>${footer_div}</footer></html>'
--- a/example-config.json
+++ b/example-config.json
@@ -1,37 +1,26 @@
 {
+    "site_admin": "your name",
    "seperator": "<hr/>",
    "site_name": "My Blog",
    "site_url": "https://example.com",
+    "locale": "en-US",
    "port": 8080,
+    "data_storage": "json",
+    "cache_data": false,
    "allow_signup": true,
    "site_description": "Read my blogs!",
-    "timeline_length": 20,
+    "request_data_limit": 20,
    "enable_hitcount": true,
    "charset": "UTF-8",
-    "root_path": "/path/to/root/of/website",
-    "delete_account_url": "/delete_account",
+    "root_path": "../webroot/",
+    "edit_account_base_url": "/edit_account",
    "new_post_url": "/post",
    "signup_url": "/signup",
    "edit_post_base_url": "/edit",
-    "default_comenter_username": "Anon",
+    "default_commenter_username": "Anon",
    "rss": true,
-    "rss_url": "/rss",
+    "atom": true,
    "date_format": "yyyy-MM-dd",
    "time_zone": "+0000",
-    "timeline_header": "<h1>%Y</h1><h2>%W</h2><a href='%P'>Create Post</a><br/><a href='%R'>RSS Feed</a><br/><a href='%Q'>Sign Up</a><br/><a href='%D'>Delete Account</a><br/>Hit count: %H%S",
-    "user_page_header": "<h1>%F's posts:</h1>%I%S",
-    "tag_page_header": "<h1>Posts tagged: %G</h1>%S",
-    "user_post_format": "<h2>%T</h2><p>%C</p><i>%B</i><br/><a href='%L'>Permalink</a><br/>%X%M%S",
-    "post_page_format": "<h1>%T</h1><p>%C</p><i>%B</i><br/><i>By <a href='%U'>%N</a></i><br/><a href='%O'>Edit Post</a><br/><i>Posted: %D</i><br/><i>Edited: %E</i>%S%X%M%S",
-    "timeline_post_format": "<h3>%T</h3><p>%C</p><a href='%L'>Permalink</a><br/><i>By <a href='%U'>%N</a></i>%X%M%S",
-    "tag_post_format": "<h3>%T</h3><p>%C</p><i>%B</i><br/><a href='%L'>Permalink</a><br/><i>By <a href='%U'>%N</a></i>%S",
-    "site_wide_footer": "Site is ran by DeaDvey<br/>%Z",
-    "signup_agreement": "I agree to not post illegal or hateful content",
-    "signups_unavailable": "Sorry, this server does not allow signups",
-    "user_exists": "Sorry, this user already exists, try a different username",
-    "user_doesnt_exist": "Sorry, this user does not exist",
-    "delete_account_confirmation": "I agree that my account and all of my posts will be permanently deleted instantly",
-    "incorrect_password": "Incorrect Password",
-    "css": "",
-    "attribution": "Powered by blogger-nodejs: <a href='https://git.javalsai.tuxcord.net/deadvey/blogger-nodejs'>Source Code</a>, <a href='https://git.javalsai.tuxcord.net/deadvey/blogger-nodejs/raw/branch/master/LICENSE'>license (WTFPL)</a>"
+    "css": ""
 }
--- a/example-custom.css
+++ b/example-custom.css
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-body {
-    /* Put your custom css here */
-}
--- a/functions.js
+++ b/functions.js
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-// The configuration defines a date format using the date-fns (a datetime library) syntax 
-// eg "yyyy-MM-dd"
-// this converts unix time (an integer) into a string that is formatted according to config.js
-// uses date-fns's fromUnixTime() and format() functions
-// returns the formatted date (string)
-export function unix_time_to_date_format(unix_time, format) {
-	date = fromUnixTime(unix_time)
-	formatted_date = format(date, format)
-	return formatted_date
-}
--- a/locales/en-AU.json
+++ b/locales/en-AU.json
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+{
+    "quotes": "“”‘’",
+    "password": "Password",
+    "username": "Username",
+    "prettyname": "Prettyname",
+    "description": "Description (social links, what you write about etc), supports markdown",
+    "title": "Title",
+    "post_content": "Post Content, supports markdown",
+    "tags": "Tags (comma seperated)",
+    "delete_account_confirmation": "Delete my account - (I agree that my account and all of my posts will be permanently deleted instantly)",
+    "signup_agreement": "I agree to not post illegal or hateful content",
+    "comment": "Comment",
+    "submit": "Submit",
+
+    "site_ran_by": "Site is ran by",
+    "signups_unavailable": "Sorry, this server does not allow signups",
+    "user_exists": "Sorry, this user already exists, try a different username",
+    "user_doesnt_exist": "Sorry, this user does not exist",
+    "comment_doesnt_exist": "This comment doesn't exist, this could be because the post it was attached to was deleted",
+    "post_doesnt_exist": "This post doesn't exist or was deleted",
+    "incorrect_password": "Incorrect Password",
+    "rss_disabled": "Sorry, RSS is disabled",
+    "atom_disabled": "Sorry, ATOM is disabled",
+    "AI_consent": "The content on this website may not be copied, scraped, or used to train AI models or large language models (LLMs) without prior written consent.",
+
+    "rss_feed": "RSS Feed",
+    "atom_feed": "ATOM Feed",
+    "no_tags": "No Tags",
+    "new_post": "New Post",
+    "edit_post": "Edit Post",
+    "sign_up": "Sign Up",
+    "edit_account": "Edit Account",
+    "permalink": "Permalink",
+    "written_by": "Written by",
+    "published": "Published",
+    "last_modified": "Last Modified",
+    "hitcount": "Hitcount",
+    "posts_tagged": "Posts Tagged",
+    "home_page": "Home Page",
+    "site_index": "Site Index",
+    "reply": "reply",
+    "attribution": "Powered by blogger-nodejs: <a href='https://git.javalsai.tuxcord.net/deadvey/blogger-nodejs'>Source Code</a>, <a href='https://git.javalsai.tuxcord.net/deadvey/blogger-nodejs/raw/branch/master/LICENSE'>license (WTFPL)</a>",
+	"translated_by": "DeaDvey"
+}
--- a/locales/en-GB.json
+++ b/locales/en-GB.json
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+{
+    "quotes": "“”‘’",
+    "password": "Password",
+    "username": "Username",
+    "prettyname": "Prettyname",
+    "description": "Description (social links, what you write about etc), supports markdown",
+    "title": "Title",
+    "post_content": "Post Content, supports markdown",
+    "tags": "Tags (comma seperated)",
+    "delete_account_confirmation": "Delete my account - (I agree that my account and all of my posts will be permanently deleted instantly)",
+    "signup_agreement": "I agree to not post illegal or hateful content",
+    "comment": "Comment",
+    "submit": "Submit",
+
+    "site_ran_by": "Site is ran by",
+    "signups_unavailable": "Sorry, this server does not allow signups",
+    "user_exists": "Sorry, this user already exists, try a different username",
+    "user_doesnt_exist": "Sorry, this user does not exist",
+    "comment_doesnt_exist": "This comment doesn't exist, this could be because the post it was attached to was deleted",
+    "post_doesnt_exist": "This post doesn't exist or was deleted",
+    "incorrect_password": "Incorrect Password",
+    "rss_disabled": "Sorry, RSS is disabled",
+    "atom_disabled": "Sorry, ATOM is disabled",
+    "AI_consent": "The content on this website may not be copied, scraped, or used to train AI models or large language models (LLMs) without prior written consent.",
+
+    "rss_feed": "RSS Feed",
+    "atom_feed": "ATOM Feed",
+    "no_tags": "No Tags",
+    "new_post": "New Post",
+    "edit_post": "Edit Post",
+    "sign_up": "Sign Up",
+    "edit_account": "Edit Account",
+    "permalink": "Permalink",
+    "written_by": "Written by",
+    "published": "Published",
+    "last_modified": "Last Modified",
+    "hitcount": "Hitcount",
+    "posts_tagged": "Posts Tagged",
+    "home_page": "Home Page",
+    "site_index": "Site Index",
+    "reply": "reply",
+    "attribution": "Powered by blogger-nodejs: <a href='https://git.javalsai.tuxcord.net/deadvey/blogger-nodejs'>Source Code</a>, <a href='https://git.javalsai.tuxcord.net/deadvey/blogger-nodejs/raw/branch/master/LICENSE'>license (WTFPL)</a>",
+	"translated_by": "DeaDvey"
+}
--- a/locales/en-US.json
+++ b/locales/en-US.json
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+{
+    "quotes": "“”‘’",
+    "password": "Password",
+    "username": "Username",
+    "prettyname": "Prettyname",
+    "description": "Description (social links, what you write about etc), supports markdown",
+    "title": "Title",
+    "post_content": "Post Content, supports markdown",
+    "tags": "Tags (comma seperated)",
+    "delete_account_confirmation": "Delete my account - (I agree that my account and all of my posts will be permanently deleted instantly)",
+    "signup_agreement": "I agree to not post illegal or hateful content",
+    "comment": "Comment",
+    "submit": "Submit",
+
+    "site_ran_by": "Site is ran by",
+    "signups_unavailable": "Sorry, this server does not allow signups",
+    "user_exists": "Sorry, this user already exists, try a different username",
+    "user_doesnt_exist": "Sorry, this user does not exist",
+    "comment_doesnt_exist": "This comment doesn't exist, this could be because the post it was attached to was deleted",
+    "post_doesnt_exist": "This post doesn't exist or was deleted",
+    "incorrect_password": "Incorrect Password",
+    "rss_disabled": "Sorry, RSS is disabled",
+    "atom_disabled": "Sorry, ATOM is disabled",
+    "AI_consent": "The content on this website may not be copied, scraped, or used to train AI models or large language models (LLMs) without prior written consent.",
+
+    "rss_feed": "RSS Feed",
+    "atom_feed": "ATOM Feed",
+    "no_tags": "No Tags",
+    "new_post": "New Post",
+    "edit_post": "Edit Post",
+    "sign_up": "Sign Up",
+    "edit_account": "Edit Account",
+    "permalink": "Permalink",
+    "written_by": "Written by",
+    "published": "Published",
+    "last_modified": "Last Modified",
+    "hitcount": "Hitcount",
+    "posts_tagged": "Posts Tagged",
+    "home_page": "Home Page",
+    "site_index": "Site Index",
+    "reply": "reply",
+    "attribution": "Powered by blogger-nodejs: <a href='https://git.javalsai.tuxcord.net/deadvey/blogger-nodejs'>Source Code</a>, <a href='https://git.javalsai.tuxcord.net/deadvey/blogger-nodejs/raw/branch/master/LICENSE'>license (WTFPL)</a>",
+	"translated_by": "DeaDvey"
+}
--- a/locales/es-ES.json
+++ b/locales/es-ES.json
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+{
+    "quotes": "«»‹›",
+    "password": "Contraseña",
+    "username": "Nombre de Usuario",
+    "prettyname": "Nombre Bonito",
+    "description": "Descripción (enlaces de redes, sobre que escribes, etc), soporta markdown",
+    "title": "Título",
+    "post_content": "Contenido de la Publicación, soporta markdown",
+    "tags": "Etiquetas (separados por coma)",
+    "delete_account_confirmation": "Eliminar mi cuenta - (Estoy de acuerdo con que todas mis publicaciones serán permanentemente eliminadas al instante)",
+    "signup_agreement": "Acepto no publicar contenido ilegal o de odio",
+    "comment": "Comentar",
+    "submit": "Enviar",
+
+    "site_ran_by": "El sitio es llevado por",
+    "signups_unavailable": "Lo siento, este servidor no permite registrarse",
+    "user_exists": "Lo siento, este usuario ya existe, prueba otro diferente",
+    "user_doesnt_exist": "Lo siento, este usuario no existe",
+    "comment_doesnt_exist": "Este comentario no existe, esto puede ser porque la publicación en la que estaba adjunto se ha eliminado",
+    "post_doesnt_exist": "Esta publicación no existe o se ha aliminado",
+    "incorrect_password": "Contraseña Incorrecta",
+    "rss_disabled": "Lo siento, RSS está desactivado",
+    "atom_disabled": "Lo siento, ATOM está desactivado",
+    "AI_consent": "El contenido de este sitio no debe ser copiado, raspado, o usado para entrenar modelos de IA o de lenguaje (LLMs) sin consentimiento previo.",
+    "rss_feed": "Feed RSS",
+    "atom_feed": "Feed ATOM",
+    "no_tags": "Sin Etiquetas",
+    "new_post": "Nueva Publicación",
+    "edit_post": "Editar Publicación",
+    "sign_up": "Registrarse",
+    "edit_account": "Editar Cuenta",
+    "permalink": "Enlace Permanente",
+    "written_by": "Escrito por",
+    "published": "Publicado",
+    "last_modified": "Última Modificación",
+    "hitcount": "Visitas",
+    "post_tagged": "Publicaciones Etiquetadas",
+    "home_page": "Página Principal",
+    "site_index": "Índice del Sitio",
+    "reply": "Responder",
+    "attribution": "Empujado por blogger-nodejs: <a href='https://git.javalsai.tuxcord.net/deadvey/blogger-nodejs'>Código Fuente</a>, <a href='https://git.javalsai.tuxcord.net/deadvey/blogger-nodejs/raw/branch/master/LICENSE'>licencia (WTFPL)</a>",
+	"translated_by": "Javalsai"
+}
--- a/locales/ja_JP.json
+++ b/locales/ja_JP.json
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+{
+    "quotes": "“”‘’",
+    "password": "パスワード",
+    "username": "ユーザー名",
+    "prettyname": "きれいな名前",
+    "description": "説明 (例えばSNSのリンクや何を書くなど)、 マークダウンをスポートする",
+    "title": "題名",
+    "post_content": "投稿の内容、マークダウンをスポートする",
+    "tags": "タグ (カンマで区切られています)",
+    "delete_account_confirmation": "アカウントを削除する - (アカウントと投稿の全部をいつまでも削除するに賛成します。)",
+    "signup_agreement": "違法なコンテントと憎らしいコンテントをポストしないに賛成します。",
+    "comment": "コメント",
+    "submit": "提出する",
+
+    "site_ran_by": "アドミン：",
+    "signups_unavailable": "申し訳ございませんでもこのサーバーはサインアップ",
+    "user_exists": "申し訳ございませんでもこのユーザー名をつかえります。別のユーザー名を入ります。",
+    "user_doesnt_exist": "申し訳ございませんでもこのアカウントがいません。",
+    "comment_doesnt_exist": "このコメントがない、これから投稿を削除したかもしれない",
+    "post_doesnt_exist": "この投稿がないか又は削除しました。",
+    "incorrect_password": "パスワードが違う",
+    "rss_disabled": "申し訳ございませんでもRSSが使用不可能なります。",
+    "atom_disabled": "申し訳ございませんでもATOMが使用不可能なります。",
+    "AI_consent": "書面による同意がないとこのホームページの内容はコピーするか又はスクレイピングするか又はAIモデルか大規模言語モデル（LLM)を仕込むことが禁断します。",
+
+    "rss_feed": "RSSのフィード",
+    "atom_feed": "ATOMのフィード",
+    "no_tags": "タグがない",
+    "new_post": "新しい投稿",
+    "edit_post": "投稿をエディットする",
+    "sign_up": "サインアップ",
+    "edit_account": "アカウントをエディットする",
+    "permalink": "恒久リンク",
+    "written_by": "作家は",
+    "published": "発行の日付",
+    "last_modified": "全変更",
+    "hitcount": "ヒット数",
+    "posts_tagged": "投稿をタグするの数",
+    "home_page": "ホーム",
+    "site_index": "ホームページの索引",
+    "reply": "返事",
+    "attribution": "blogger-nodejsで作成されています: <a href='https://git.javalsai.tuxcord.net/deadvey/blogger-nodejs'>ソースコード</a>, <a href='https://git.javalsai.tuxcord.net/deadvey/blogger-nodejs/raw/branch/master/LICENSE'>ライセンス (WTFPL)</a>",
+	"translated_by": "Nullifier"
+}
--- a/locales/sv-SE.json
+++ b/locales/sv-SE.json
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+{
+    "quotes": "“”‘’",
+    "password": "Lösenord",
+    "username": "Användarnamn",
+    "prettyname": "Vackert namn",
+    "description": "Beskrivning (sociala länkar, vad du skriver om m.m.), stöder markdown",
+    "title": "Titel",
+    "post_content": "Inläggsinnehåll, stöder markdown",
+    "tags": "Taggar (komma separerade)",
+    "delete_account_confirmation": "Radera mitt konto - (Jag förstår och accepterar att mitt konto och alla mina inlägg kommer att raderas permanent omedelbart)",
+    "signup_agreement": "Jag samtycker till att inte publicera olagligt eller hatiskt innehåll",
+    "comment": "Kommentera",
+    "submit": "Skicka",
+
+    "site_ran_by": "Webbplatsen drivs av",
+    "signups_unavailable": "Tyvärr, denna server tillåter inte registreringar",
+    "user_exists": "Tyvärr, den här användaren finns redan. Försök med ett annat användarnamn",
+    "user_doesnt_exist": "Tyvärr, den här användaren finns inte",
+    "comment_doesnt_exist": "Denna kommentar finns inte, vilket kan bero på att inlägget den var kopplad till har raderats",
+    "post_doesnt_exist": "Det här inlägget finns inte eller har raderats",
+    "incorrect_password": "Felaktigt Lösenord",
+    "rss_disabled": "Tyvärr, RSS är inaktiverat",
+    "atom_disabled": "Tyvärr, ATOM är inaktiverat",
+    "AI_consent": "Innehållet på denna webbplats får inte kopieras, skrapas eller användas för att träna AI-modeller eller stora språkmodeller (LLM) utan skriftligt samtycke.",
+
+    "rss_feed": "RSS-flöde",
+    "atom_feed": "ATOM-flöde",
+    "no_tags": "Inga taggar",
+    "new_post": "Nytt inlägg",
+    "edit_post": "Redigera inlägg",
+    "sign_up": "Registrera",
+    "edit_account": "Redigera konto",
+    "permalink": "Permalänk",
+    "written_by": "Skriven av",
+    "published": "Publicerad",
+    "last_modified": "Senast ändrad",
+    "hitcount": "Besökare",
+    "posts_tagged": "Taggade inlägg",
+    "home_page": "Startsida",
+    "site_index": "Webbplatsindex",
+    "reply": "Svara",
+    "attribution": "Drivs av blogger-nodejs: <a href='https://git.javalsai.tuxcord.net/deadvey/blogger-nodejs'>Källkod</a>, <a href='https://git.javalsai.tuxcord.net/deadvey/blogger-nodejs/raw/branch/master/LICENSE'>licens (WTFPL)</a>",
+	"translated_by": "pickzelle"
+}
--- a/locales/template.jsonc
+++ b/locales/template.jsonc
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+{
+    "quotes": "“”‘’", // Single and Double quotes, according to https://github.com/markdown-it/markdown-it format
+
+	// Placeholders in form inputs!
+    "password": "Password",
+    "username": "Username",
+    "prettyname": "Prettyname",
+    "description": "Description (social links, what you write about etc), supports markdown", // Should explain what can be entered into the user description/bio
+    "title": "Title", // Post title
+    "post_content": "Post Content, supports markdown",
+    "tags": "Tags (comma seperated)", // An input field that allows you to enter a comma seperated list of tags like: 'sus,test,haha'
+    "delete_account_confirmation": "Delete my account - (I agree that my account and all of my posts will be permanently deleted instantly)", // Should make it clear that all user data and posts will be deleted
+    "signup_agreement": "I agree to not post illegal or hateful content", // Should make it clear that you cannot post illegal or hateful content
+    "comment": "Comment",
+    "submit": "Sumbit",
+
+    "site_ran_by": "Site is ran by", // eg 'Site is ran by Bob', it shows up in the footer of each page
+
+	// Error messages, should just apologise and make it clear the error
+    "signups_unavailable": "Sorry, this server does not allow signups",
+    "user_exists": "Sorry, this user already exists, try a different username",
+    "user_doesnt_exist": "Sorry, this user does not exist",
+    "comment_doesnt_exist": "This comment doesn't exist, this could be because the post it was attached to was deleted",
+    "post_doesnt_exist": "This post doesn't exist or was deleted",
+    "incorrect_password": "Incorrect Password",
+    "rss_disabled": "Sorry, RSS is disabled",
+    "atom_disabled": "Sorry, ATOM is disabled",
+
+	// Disclaimer, not legally binding
+    "AI_consent": "The content on this website may not be copied, scraped, or used to train AI models or large language models (LLMs) without prior written consent.",
+
+	// Hyperlinks to pages and plain text that shows up on the website
+    "rss_feed": "RSS Feed",
+    "atom_feed": "ATOM Feed",
+    "no_tags": "No Tags",
+    "new_post": "New Post",
+    "edit_post": "Edit Post",
+    "sign_up": "Sign Up",
+    "edit_account": "Edit Account",
+    "permalink": "Permalink",
+    "written_by": "Written by", // A post is written/authored by x person
+    "published": "Published", // Published on this date
+    "last_modified": "Last Modified", // Last modified on this date
+    "hitcount": "Hitcount", // The number of views/hits/visits to a page, eg: 'hitcount: 53'
+    "posts_tagged": "Posts Tagged",
+    "home_page": "Home Page", // The main or default page, ie index.html
+    "site_index": "Site Index", // Or 'site map'
+    "reply": "reply", // Reply to a comment
+
+	// Attribution for the source code, don't change the URLs obviously, just the text within them.
+    "attribution": "Powered by blogger-nodejs: <a href='https://git.javalsai.tuxcord.net/deadvey/blogger-nodejs'>Source Code</a>, <a href='https://git.javalsai.tuxcord.net/deadvey/blogger-nodejs/raw/branch/master/LICENSE'>license (WTFPL)</a>",
+
+	// Comma seperated list of people who contributed to this translation
+	"translated_by": "DeaDvey"
+
+	// TODO
+	// indexes locales
+	// Password again
+	// site_admin?
+	// Should colons be part of the translations?
+}
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,8 +1,16 @@
 {
+  "name": "blogger-nodejs",
+  "version": "0.0.5",
+  "description": "Simple web logging backend",
+  "author": "DeaDvey",
+  "license": "WTFPL",
  "dependencies": {
    "date-fns": "^4.1.0",
    "ejs": "^3.1.10",
-    "express": "^5.1.0",
-    "showdown": "^2.1.0"
+    "express": "^5.2.1",
+    "express-router": "^0.0.1",
+    "markdown-it": "^14.1.0",
+    "mssql": "^12.2.0",
+    "package.json": "^2.0.1"
  }
 }
--- a/src/data.js
+++ b/src/data.js
@@ -0,0 +1,142 @@
+import { createRequire } from "module";
+const require = createRequire(import.meta.url);
+
+const func = require('./functions.js')
+const config = require("../config.json")
+const fs = require("fs")
+
+// Literally just +1 to the hitcount
+export function increment_hitcount(postID = -1) { // -1 Means it will increment the timeline hitcount
+    if (config.data_storage == 'json') {
+	if (postID == -1) {
+		let hitcount = getdata('hitcount');
+		hitcount += 1
+		writedata('hitcount', hitcount);
+	}
+	else {
+		let post = getdata('posts','id', postID)[0];
+		if (post == 1) // Does not exist
+		{
+			return 1
+		}
+		else if (typeof post.hitcount != 'undefined') {
+			post.hitcount += 1;
+			writedata('posts', post, postID)
+			return 0
+		}
+		else {
+			post.hitcount = 1;
+			writedata('posts', post, postID)
+			return 0
+		}
+		return 1
+	}
+    }
+};
+
+export function searchdata(term, type) { // Searches users and posts for any matches
+	let search_results = {"posts": [], "users": []};
+	// Search users
+	if (type.includes('post')) {
+		let list = getdata('posts');
+		list.forEach((element,index) => {
+			if (typeof element.deleted == 'undefined' || element.deleted == false) {
+				if (element.content.includes(term)) {
+					search_results.posts.push(element)
+				}
+				else if (element.title.includes(term)) {
+					search_results.posts.push(element)
+				}
+				else if (element.tags.toString().includes(term)) {
+					search_results.posts.push(element)
+				};
+			};
+		});
+	}
+	if (type.includes('user')) {
+		let list = getdata('users');
+		list.forEach((element,index) => {
+			if (typeof element.deleted == 'undefined' || element.deleted == false) {
+				if (element.username.includes(term)) {
+					search_results.users.push(element)
+				}
+				else if (element.prettyname.includes(term)) {
+					search_results.users.push(element)
+				}
+				else if (element.description.includes(term)) {
+					search_results.users.push(element)
+				};
+			};
+		});
+	}
+	return search_results;
+};
+
+export function getdata(table_name, key=-1, value=-1) {
+	let result = undefined
+	switch (config["data_storage"]) {
+		case 'json':
+			switch (table_name) {
+				case 'users':
+				case 'posts':
+				case 'comments':
+					result = func.require_module(`../data/${table_name}.json`)
+					if (key != -1) {
+						if (key == 'id')
+						{ // id is the index
+ 							if (value < result.length && value >= 0)
+							{
+								return [result[value]]
+							}
+							else 
+							{
+								console.log("No object of this ID exists for the selected table")
+								return 1
+							}
+						}
+						let return_list = func.find_key_value_pair(result,key,value)
+						return return_list
+					}
+					return result
+				case 'hitcount':
+					result = func.require_module('../data/data.json') // This file is actually called data.json
+					return result["hitcount"]
+					break;
+				default:
+					console.log("Error, invalid requested")
+					return -1
+					break;
+			}
+			break;
+		default:
+			console.log("Error, invalid database management system")
+			return 1
+	}
+}
+
+export function writedata(data, data_to_write, index=-1) {
+	if (config["data_storage"] == "json") {
+		if (data == "posts" || data == 'users' || data == 'comments') {
+			if (index == -1) {
+				fs.writeFileSync(`../data/${data}.json`, JSON.stringify(data_to_write), 'utf-8')
+				return 0
+			}
+			else if (index >= 0) {
+				let result = getdata(data);
+				result[index] = data_to_write;
+				fs.writeFileSync(`../data/${data}.json`, JSON.stringify(result), 'utf-8')
+				return 0
+			}
+			return 1
+		}
+		else if (data == "hitcount") {
+			let other_data = func.require_module('../data/data.json') // This file is actually called data.json
+			other_data.hitcount = data_to_write
+			fs.writeFileSync('../data/data.json', JSON.stringify(other_data), 'utf-8')
+		}
+		else {
+			console.log("Error, invalid requested")
+			return 1
+		}
+	}
+}
--- a/src/functions.js
+++ b/src/functions.js
@@ -0,0 +1,136 @@
+import { createRequire } from 'module';
+const require = createRequire(import.meta.url)
+const config = require("../config.json")
+const fs = require('fs')
+const locale = require(`../locales/${config.locale}.json`)
+
+// This function requires a module without caching it
+// So the server doesn't need to be restarted, though this can slow it down a bit.
+// https://stackoverflow.com/a/16060619
+export function require_module(module)
+{
+    if (config.cache_data == false)
+    {
+        delete require.cache[require.resolve(module)];
+        return require(module);
+    }
+    else
+    {
+        return require(module);
+    }
+}
+
+// The configuration defines a date format using the date-fns (a datetime library) syntax 
+// eg "yyyy-MM-dd"
+// this converts unix time (an integer) into a string that is formatted according to config.js
+// uses date-fns's fromUnixTime() and format() functions
+// returns the formatted date (string)
+export function unix_time_to_date_format(unix_time)
+{
+    const { fromUnixTime, format, getUnixTime } = require("date-fns") // A date utility library
+	let date = fromUnixTime(unix_time)
+	let formatted_date = format(date, config.date_format)
+	return formatted_date
+}
+// This is similar to the above function, however, instead of formatting to the users
+// configuration, it formats to RFC-822 which is the date format used by RSS feeds
+// eg "Mon, 23 May 2025 18:59:59 +0100"
+// accepts unix time (int)
+// returns the formatted date (string)
+export function unix_time_to_rss_date(unix_time)
+{
+    const { fromUnixTime, format, getUnixTime } = require("date-fns") // A date utility library
+	let date = fromUnixTime(unix_time)
+	let formatted_date = format(date, "EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss")
+	return `${formatted_date} ${config.time_zone}`
+}
+// And again with atom's date format
+export function unix_time_to_atom_date(unix_time)
+{
+    const { fromUnixTime, format, getUnixTime } = require("date-fns") // A date utility library
+	let date = fromUnixTime(unix_time)
+	let formatted_date = format(date, "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'")
+	return `${formatted_date}`
+}
+// This function accepts a list of strings eg ["string1","string2,"string3"] (any length)
+// then returns a string of them each pointing to a seperate url
+// eg "<a href="/tag/string1">string1</a>, <a href="/tag/string2">string2</a>, <a href="/tag/string3">string3</a>"
+// this is so you can have a list of tags that each point to their individual tag page
+// returns: string
+export function render_tags(tags_string)
+{
+	let tags = tags_string.split(',')
+	tags = tags.filter((item, index) => tags.indexOf(item) === index) // Remove duplicate tags
+	let string = "" // Initialises the string
+    if (tags.length == 1 && tags[0] == "")
+    {
+        string = ''; // If there are no tags, output nothing
+    }
+    else
+    {
+        for (let tag_index = 0; tag_index < tags.length; tag_index++)
+        { // Loop over each tag
+            string += `<a href="/tag/${tags[tag_index].trim()}">#${tags[tag_index].trim()}</a> ` // Adds the tag to the string as a HTML href
+        }
+    }
+	return string
+}
+// This escapes some potentially dangerous HTML characters with their HTML entities
+// https://www.freeformatter.com/html-entities.html
+// accepts a string
+// returns a string with some character replaced by their entities
+export function escape_input(input)
+{
+    let output = input
+        .replaceAll("&", "&amp;") // This must be first
+        .replaceAll("<", "&lt;")
+        .replaceAll(">", "&gt;")
+        .replaceAll("\\", "&#92;")
+        .replaceAll('"', "&#34;")
+        .replaceAll("'", "&#39;")
+        .replaceAll("/", "&#47;")
+        .replaceAll("%", "&#37;")
+    return output
+}
+
+// Render comment content by replacing the >> int with a url link to that comment
+// Syntax: ">> postID-commentID"
+export function render_comment(comment_content)
+{
+    return comment_content
+            .replaceAll(/>> ([0-9]*)-([0-9]*)/g, "<a href='/comment/$1-$2'>>> $1-$2</a>")
+            .replaceAll(/>>([0-9]*)-([0-9]*)/g, "<a href='/comment/$1-$2'>>>$1-$2</a>")
+            .replaceAll(/&gt;&gt; ([0-9]*)-([0-9]*)/g, "<a href='/comment/$1-$2'>>> $1-$2</a>")
+            .replaceAll(/&gt;&gt;([0-9]*)-([0-9]*)/g, "<a href='/comment/$1-$2'>>>$1-$2</a>")
+            .replaceAll("\n", "<br/>")
+
+};
+
+// Renders a string into markdown using markdown-it library
+export function render_md(content)
+{
+    const markdownit = require("markdown-it")
+    const md = markdownit
+    ({ // this is just defining some options for markdown-it, should I add this to config.json?
+        html: false,
+        xhtmlOut: false,
+        breaks: true,
+        linkify: false,
+        typographer: true,
+        quotes: locale.quotes,
+    })
+	.disable('image');
+    return md.render(content)
+};
+
+// Returns a list of matches
+export function find_key_value_pair(data_array, key, value) {
+	let return_list = []
+	for (let i = 0; i < data_array.length; i++) {
+		let element = data_array[i][key]
+		if (element == value || (key == 'tags' && element.includes(value))) {
+			return_list.push(data_array[i])
+		}
+	}
+	return return_list
+};
--- a/src/routes/form_actions.js
+++ b/src/routes/form_actions.js
@@ -0,0 +1,229 @@
+const express = require('express');
+const config = require('../../config')
+const data = require('../data')
+const func = require('../functions')
+
+let users = require('../../data/users.json');
+let posts = require('../../data/posts.json');
+let comments = require('../../data/comments.json');
+let other_data = require('../../data/data.json');
+
+const { fromUnixTime, format, getUnixTime } = require("date-fns") // A date utility library
+const fs = require('fs')
+const crypto = require('crypto')
+const router = express.Router();
+
+////////////////////// Form actions /////////////////////////
+router.post("/submit_comment", (req,res) => {
+    const unix_timestamp = getUnixTime(new Date())
+    const postID = parseInt(req.body.post_index)
+    const content = func.escape_input(req.body.content)
+    let name = func.escape_input(req.body.name)
+    // Give the user the default username if they left that bit blank
+    if (name == "" || typeof name == 'undefined') {
+        name = config.default_commenter_username
+    }
+
+    // Check there is actually content in the comment
+    if (content != '' && typeof content != 'undefined') {
+	    let comments = data.getdata('comments')
+
+	    new_comment = {
+		"name": name,
+		"content": content,
+		 "id": comments[postID]['comments'].length,
+		 "pubdate": unix_timestamp,
+	    };
+	    comments[postID]['comments'].push(new_comment);
+	    fs.writeFileSync(`../data/comments.json`, `${JSON.stringify(comments)}`, 'utf-8');
+    }
+
+    res.redirect(301,`/post/${req.body.post_index}`)
+}); // /submit_comment
+
+router.post("/submit_post", (req,res) => {
+    const password = crypto.createHash('sha512').update(req.body.password).digest('hex');
+    const username = func.escape_input(req.body.username)
+    const title = func.escape_input(req.body.title)
+    const content = req.body.content
+    const tags = func.escape_input(req.body.tags).split(',').map(str => str.trim());
+    const unix_timestamp = getUnixTime(new Date())
+
+    if (func.get_userID(username) == -1) {
+        res.render("partials/message", {
+            message: locale.user_doesnt_exit,
+            config,
+        })
+    }
+
+    else if (users[func.get_userID(username)]['hash'] == password) { // Password matches
+        console.log(username, "is submitting a post titled:", title);
+        id = posts.length
+        posts.push({
+            "id": id,
+            "userID": func.get_userID(username),
+                   "title": title,
+                   "content": content,
+                   "pubdate": unix_timestamp,
+                   "editdate": unix_timestamp,
+                   "tags": tags,
+        })
+        fs.writeFileSync(`../data/posts.json`, `${JSON.stringify(posts)}`, 'utf-8');
+        comments.push({'id': id, 'comments': []})
+        fs.writeFileSync(`../data/comments.json`, `${JSON.stringify(comments)}`)
+        res.redirect(302, "/");
+    }
+    else {
+        res.render("partials/message", {
+            message: locale.incorrect_password,
+            config,
+        })
+    }
+}); // /submit_post
+
+router.post("/submit_signup", (req,res) => {
+    const password =  crypto.createHash('sha512').update(req.body.password).digest('hex');
+    const username = func.escape_input(req.body.username)
+    const prettyname = func.escape_input(req.body.prettyname)
+    const description = req.body.description
+
+    // Check that signups are allowed
+    if (config.allow_signup == true) {
+        // func.get_userID will return -1 if the user does not exist
+        // so this checks that the user does not exist
+        if (func.get_userID(username) == -1) {
+            users.push({
+                "id": users.length,
+                "username": username,
+                "prettyname": prettyname,
+                "hash": password,
+                "description": description,
+            })
+            fs.writeFileSync(`../data/users.json`, `${JSON.stringify(users)}`, 'utf-8');
+            res.redirect(301, `/user/${username}`)
+        }
+        // if the user does exist then
+        else {
+            res.render("partials/message", {
+                message: locale.user_exists,
+                config,
+            })
+        }
+    }
+    else if (config.allow_signup == false) {
+        res.render("partials/message", {
+            message: locale.signups_unavailable,
+            config,
+        })
+    }
+    // If allow_signup is undefined or not a boolean, error
+    else {
+        res.redirect(301,"/")
+        console.log("Error, invalid value for allow_signup (bool)")
+    }
+}); // /submit_signup
+
+router.post("/submit_edit_user", (req,res) => {
+    // Get the form info
+    const password = crypto.createHash("sha512").update(req.body.password).digest("hex");
+    const userID = func.escape_input(req.body.userID)
+    const description = req.body.description
+    const prettyname = func.escape_input(req.body.prettyname)
+    const delete_bool = req.body.delete
+
+    if (userID >= 0) { // The user exists
+        if (password == users[userID]['hash']) { // password matches
+            console.log(userID, " (userID) is modifying their account")
+            users[userID]["prettyname"] = prettyname;
+            users[userID]["description"] = description;
+
+            if (delete_bool == true) {
+                // Delete the user
+                users[userID] = {"id": userID,"deleted": true}
+                // Delete all their posts
+                for (let postid = 0; postid < posts.length; postid++) { // loop over all posts
+                    if (posts[postid]['userID'] == userID) { // if userID matches
+                        posts[postid] = {"id": postid, "deleted": true} // delete the post
+                        comments[postid] = [] // the comments for this post should also be deleted
+                    }
+                };
+            }
+            // Write these changes
+            fs.writeFileSync(`../data/users.json`, `${JSON.stringify(users)}`, 'utf-8');
+            fs.writeFileSync(`../data/posts.json`, `${JSON.stringify(posts)}`, 'utf-8');
+            fs.writeFileSync(`../data/comments.json`, `${JSON.stringify(comments)}`, 'utf-8');
+            res.redirect(301,`/user/${users[userID]["username"]}`)
+        }
+        else { // password does not match
+            res.render("partials/message", {
+                message: locale.incorrect_password,
+                config
+            }
+            )
+        };
+    }
+    else {
+        res.render("partials/message", {
+            message: locale.user_doesnt_exist,
+            config,
+        })
+    }
+}); // /submit_delete_account
+
+router.post("/submit_edit_post", (req,res) => {
+    const password = crypto.createHash('sha512').update(req.body.password).digest('hex');
+    const postID = req.body.postID
+    const userID = req.body.userID
+    const title = func.escape_input(req.body.title)
+    const content = req.body.content
+    const tags = func.escape_input(req.body.tags).split(",").map(str => str.trim());
+    const delete_bool = req.body.delete
+    const unix_timestamp = getUnixTime(new Date())
+    console.log(users[userID]['prettyname'], "is editting the post titled:", title);
+
+    if (users[userID]['hash'] == password) { // password matches
+        let post = posts[postID]
+        post['title'] = title
+        post['content'] = content
+        post['tags'] = tags
+        post['editdate'] = unix_timestamp
+        if (typeof delete_bool != "undefined") {
+            console.log("Deleting post!")
+            posts[postID] = {"id": post["id"], "deleted": true}
+            comments[postID] = [];
+            fs.writeFileSync(`../data/comments.json`, `${JSON.stringify(comments)}`, 'utf-8');
+        }
+        fs.writeFileSync(`../data/posts.json`, `${JSON.stringify(posts)}`, 'utf-8');
+        res.redirect(302, "/");
+    }
+    else {
+        res.render("partials/message", {
+            message: locale.incorrect_password,
+            config,
+        })
+    }
+}); // /submit_edit
+
+router.get('/search', (req, res) => {
+	const search_term = func.escape_input(req.query.q); // 'q' is the parameter name
+	let search_type = req.query.type; // eg 'post', 'user'
+	if (typeof search_type == 'string') { // Make the search_term an array 
+		search_type = [ search_type ]
+	}
+	if (typeof search_type == 'undefined') { // Default to all of the types
+		search_type = ['user', 'post'];
+	}
+	console.log('searching for: ', search_term);
+	const search_results = data.searchdata(search_term, search_type); // data.searchdata returns an array of search results
+
+	res.render('pages/search', {
+		config,
+		locale,
+		search_results,
+		search_term,
+		search_type,
+	})
+
+}); // /search
+
+module.exports = router;
--- a/src/routes/forms.js
+++ b/src/routes/forms.js
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+const express = require('express');
+const config = require('../../config')
+const data = require('../data')
+const func = require('../functions')
+const router = express.Router();
+
+///////////////////// Form pages ////////////////////////////
+router.get(config.new_post_url, (req,res) => {
+    res.render("forms/new_post", {
+        config,
+        locale,
+    });
+}); // /post
+router.get(config.signup_url, (req,res) => {
+    // if the server does allow signup
+    if (config.allow_signup == true) {
+        // Send the page for signing up to the server
+        res.render("forms/signup", {
+            config,
+            locale,
+        });
+    }
+    // if the server does not allow signup
+    else if (config.allow_signup == false) {
+        res.render("partials/message", {
+            message: locale.signups_unavailable,
+            config,
+        })
+    }
+    // If allow_signup is undefined or not a boolean, error
+    else {
+        res.redirect(301,"/")
+        console.log("Error, invalid value for allow_signup (bool)")
+    }
+}); // /signup
+router.get(`${config.edit_account_base_url}/:user_id`, (req,res) => {
+    const userID = parseInt(req.params.user_id);
+    res.render("forms/edit_account", {
+        config,
+        locale,
+        user: data.getdata('users', 'id', userID),
+        userID
+    });
+}); // /delete_account
+router.get(`${config.edit_post_base_url}/:post_id`, (req,res) => {
+    const postID = req.params.post_id
+    const post = data.getdata('posts','id', postID)
+    const user = data.getdata('users', 'id', post.userID)
+    res.render("forms/edit_post", {
+        config,
+        locale,
+        post,
+        postID,
+        user,
+    });
+}); // /edit/:post_id
+
+module.exports = router;
--- a/src/routes/indexes.js
+++ b/src/routes/indexes.js
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+const express = require('express');
+const config = require('../../config')
+const data = require('../data')
+const func = require('../functions')
+
+const router = express.Router();
+
+///////////////////// Page index's ///////////////////////
+router.get("/index/pages", (req,res) => {
+    res.render("indexes/all_pages", {
+        config,
+        posts: data.getdata('posts'),
+        users: data.getdata('users'),
+        comments: data.getdata('comments'),
+    });
+}); // /index/pages
+router.get("/index/posts", (req,res) => {
+    res.render("indexes/posts", {
+        config,
+        posts: data.getdata('posts'),
+    });
+}); // /index/posts
+router.get("/index/users", (req,res) => {
+    res.render("indexes/users", {
+        config,
+        users: data.getdata('users'),
+    });
+}); // /index/users
+router.get("/index/comments", (req,res) => {
+    res.render("indexes/comments", {
+        config,
+        comments: data.getdata('comments'),
+    });
+}); // /index/comments
+
+
+module.exports = router;
--- a/src/routes/standard_pages.js
+++ b/src/routes/standard_pages.js
@@ -0,0 +1,150 @@
+const express = require('express');
+const config = require('../../config')
+const data = require('../data')
+const func = require('../functions')
+
+const { fromUnixTime, format, getUnixTime } = require("date-fns") // A date utility library
+const router = express.Router();
+
+///////////////////// Standard Pages //////////////////////
+
+// Timeline
+router.get("/", (req,res) => {
+	let posts = data.getdata('posts')
+    // Increment the hitcount
+    if (config.enable_hitcount) {
+        data.increment_hitcount()
+    }
+
+	res.render("pages/timeline",
+	{
+		config,
+		locale,
+		posts,
+		users: data.getdata("users"),
+		comments: data.getdata("comments"),
+		hitcount: data.getdata("hitcount"),
+		fromUnixTime,
+		format,
+		getUnixTime,
+		func,
+	})
+}); // /
+
+// Users
+router.get("/user/:username", (req, res) => {
+    let user = data.getdata('users', 'username', req.params.username)
+    if (user.length > 0) {
+        res.render("pages/user",
+		{
+			config,
+			locale,
+			posts: data.getdata('posts','userID',user[0].id),
+			user: user[0],
+			comments: data.getdata('comments'),
+			fromUnixTime,
+			format,
+			getUnixTime,
+			func,
+		})
+    }
+    else {
+        res.render("partials/message",
+                   {
+                       message: locale.user_doesnt_exist,
+                       config,
+                   })
+    }
+}); // /user/:username
+
+// Posts
+router.get("/post/:post_index", (req, res) => {
+    const postID = parseInt(req.params.post_index)
+    let post = data.getdata('posts','id', postID)[0]
+    if (post.length == 0) { // data.getdata returns error code 1 if nothing is available
+        res.render("partials/message", {
+            message: locale.post_doesnt_exist,
+            config,
+        })
+    }
+    else {
+		if (config.enable_hitcount) {
+			data.increment_hitcount(postID)
+		}
+        res.render("pages/post",
+		{
+			config,
+			locale,
+			post,
+			postID,
+			user: data.getdata('users','id', post.userID)[0],
+			comments: data.getdata('comments','id', postID)[0]["comments"],
+			fromUnixTime,
+			format,
+			getUnixTime,
+			func,
+		})
+    }
+}); // /post/:post_index
+
+
+// Tags
+router.get("/tag/:tag", (req,res) => {
+    const tag = req.params.tag
+	const posts = data.getdata('posts','tags',tag);
+	console.log(posts)
+	const users = data.getdata('users')
+	const comments = data.getdata('comments')
+    res.render("pages/tag",
+	{
+		config,
+		locale,
+		tag,
+		posts,
+		users,
+		comments,
+		fromUnixTime,
+		format,
+		getUnixTime,
+		func,
+	})
+}); // /tag/:tag
+
+
+// Comments
+router.get("/comment/:postID-:commentID", (req,res) => {
+    const commentID = parseInt(req.params.commentID);
+    const postID = parseInt(req.params.postID);
+
+    let posts_comments = data.getdata('comments', 'id', postID)["comments"]
+    let comment = 1
+    // For loop to find the comment with matching ID
+    posts_comments.forEach((current_comment, index) => {
+        if (current_comment.id == commentID) {
+            comment = posts_comments[index]
+        }
+    })
+    // If comment doesn't exist, show error
+    if (comment == 1 || posts_comments == 1) { // Comment of this ID was not found
+        res.render("partials/message", {
+            config,
+            message: locale.comment_doesnt_exist,
+        })
+    }
+    else {
+        res.render("pages/comment",
+                   {
+                       config,
+                       locale,
+                       comment,
+                       postID,
+                       commentID,
+                       fromUnixTime,
+                       format,
+                        getUnixTime,
+                        func,
+                   })
+    }
+});
+
+module.exports = router;
--- a/src/routes/syndication.js
+++ b/src/routes/syndication.js
@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+const express = require('express');
+const config = require('../../config')
+const data = require('../data')
+const func = require('../functions')
+
+const { fromUnixTime, format, getUnixTime } = require("date-fns") // A date utility library
+
+const router = express.Router();
+
+////////////////////// SYNDICATION ////////////////////////
+// global RSS protocol gets
+router.get("/rss", (req,res) => {
+    if (config.rss == false) {
+        res.render("partials/message", {
+            message: locale.rss_disabled,
+            config,
+        })
+    }
+    else {
+        res.setHeader('content-type', 'application/rss+xml');
+        res.render("syndication/rss", {
+            config,
+            posts: data.getdata('posts'),
+			users: data.getdata('users'),
+            func,
+        })
+    };
+});
+// user RSS protocol gets
+router.get("/user/:username/rss", (req,res) => {
+    const username = req.params.username;
+	const user = data.getdata('users', 'username', username);
+    if (config.rss == false) {
+        res.render("partials/message", {
+            message: locale.rss_disabled,
+            config: config,
+        })
+    }
+    else {
+        res.setHeader('content-type', 'application/rss+xml');
+        res.render("syndication/rss", {
+            config,
+            posts: data.getdata('posts'),
+			users: user,
+            func,
+        })
+    };
+});
+// global ATOM protocol gets
+router.get("/atom", (req,res) => {
+    if (config.atom == false) {
+        res.render("partials/message", {
+            message: locale.atom_disabled,
+            config: config,
+        })
+    }
+    else {
+        res.setHeader('content-type', 'application/rss+xml');
+        res.render("syndication/global_atom", {
+            config,
+            posts: data.getdata('posts'),
+			users: data.getdata('users'),
+            func,
+            getUnixTime,
+        })
+    };
+});
+// user ATOM protocol gets
+router.get("/user/:username/atom", (req,res) => {
+    const username = req.params.username;
+    const userID = func.get_userID(username);
+    if (config.atom == false) {
+        res.render("partials/message", {
+            message: locale.atom_disabled,
+            config: config,
+        })
+    }
+    else {
+        res.setHeader('content-type', 'application/rss+xml');
+        res.render("syndication/user_atom", {
+            config,
+            posts: data.getdata('posts'),
+			users: data.getdata('users'),
+            func,
+            userID,
+            getUnixTime,
+        })
+    };
+});
+
+module.exports = router;
--- a/src/server.js
+++ b/src/server.js
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+// Get the libraries
+const fs = require('fs'); // For modifying and reading files
+const express = require('express'); // For running a webserver in nodejs
+const crypto = require('crypto'); // For encrypting passwords, I use sha512
+// fromUnixTime(): Create a date from a Unix timestamp (in seconds). Decimal values will be discarded.
+// format(): Return the formatted date string in the given format. The result may vary by locale.
+// getUnixTime(): Get the seconds timestamp of the given date.
+// find out more at https://date-fns.org/ \or docs: https://date-fns.org/docs/Getting-Started
+const { fromUnixTime, format, getUnixTime } = require("date-fns") // A date utility library
+const ejs = require("ejs")
+const func = require("./functions.js")
+const data = require("./data.js")
+
+config = require('../config.json');
+
+// Import the locale
+try {
+    locale = require(`../locales/${config.locale}.json`);
+}
+catch (error) {
+    console.log("This locale doesn't exist, if you want to create it then you can create a PR")
+    console.log("Locale selected: ", config.locale)
+}
+
+// Define stuff to do with express (nodejs webserver)
+const app = express();
+app.use(express.urlencoded({ extended: true }));
+app.use(express.json());
+app.use(express.static(config.root_path));
+// set the view engine to ejs
+app.set('view engine', 'ejs');
+app.set('views', '../views')
+
+// Express JS routes
+const syndication_routes = require('./routes/syndication.js');
+const indexes_routes = require('./routes/indexes.js');
+const standard_pages_routes = require('./routes/standard_pages.js');
+const forms_routes = require('./routes/forms.js');
+const form_actions_routes = require('./routes/form_actions.js');
+
+app.use('/', syndication_routes);
+app.use('/', indexes_routes);
+app.use('/', standard_pages_routes);
+app.use('/', forms_routes);
+app.use('/', form_actions_routes);
+
+function perform_checks()
+{
+        console.log("Performing startup checks...")
+        exit_flag = false
+        required_values = ['site_admin','seperator','site_name','site_url','locale','port','cache_data','allow_signup','site_description','request_data_limit','enable_hitcount','charset','root_path','edit_account_base_url','new_post_url','signup_url','default_commenter_username','rss','atom','date_format','time_zone','css']
+        // Perform some standard checks:
+
+        // data_storage
+        switch (config.data_storage)
+        {
+                case 'mysql':
+                case 'json':
+                        break
+                default:
+                        console.log("[ ERROR ] invalid value in `data_storage`\nPlease modify config.json. Value should be 'mysql' or 'json'.")
+                        exit_flag = true
+        }
+        // auto_generated
+        if (config.auto_generated)
+        {
+                console.log("[ ERROR ] `autogenerated` option set to true\nplease edit the config.json file to include your relevant information, then set to false or remove the autogenerated option.")
+                exit_flag = true
+        }
+        // Check required values are present
+        required_values.forEach((value) => { // Use a loop to check each required value is present
+                if (typeof config[value] == 'undefined') {
+                        exit_flag = true
+                        console.log(`[ ERROR ] \`${value}\` is undefined\nPlease set it to something, read the documentation for help.`)
+                }
+        });
+        if (exit_flag)
+        {
+                console.log("Exiting due to errors.")
+                process.exit(1)
+        }
+}
+perform_checks()
+
+
+app.listen(config.port, () => {
+	console.log(`Server is running at http://localhost:${config.port} webroot: ${config.root_path}`);
+    console.log("Running in: ", __dirname)
+});
--- a/views/forms/edit_account.ejs
+++ b/views/forms/edit_account.ejs
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html lang="<%= config.language %>
+    <head>
+        <%- include("../partials/head") %>
+    </head>
+    <body>
+        <form action="/submit_edit_user" method="POST">
+            <input name="userID" type="hidden" value="<%= userID %>">
+            <label><%= locale.password %>:</label><br/>
+            <input type="password" required id="password" name="password"><br/><br/>
+
+            <label><%= locale.prettyname %>:</label><br/>
+            <input name="prettyname" value="<%= user.prettyname %>"><br/><br/>
+
+            <label><%= locale.description  %>:</label><br/>
+            <textarea name="description"><%= user.description %></textarea><br/><br/>
+
+            <label><%- locale.delete_account_confirmation %>: </label><input type="checkbox" name="agreement"><br/>
+            <input type="submit" value="Submit"><br/>
+        </form>
+    </body>
+</html>
--- a/views/forms/edit_post.ejs
+++ b/views/forms/edit_post.ejs
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html lang="<%= config.language %>">
+    <head>
+        <%- include("../partials/head") %>
+    </head>
+    <body>
+        <form action="/submit_edit_post" method="POST" onsubmit="sha512password()">
+            <input name="userID" type="hidden" value="<%= post['userID'] %>">
+            <input name="postID" type="hidden" value="<%= postID %>">
+
+            <label><%= locale.password %>:</label><br/>
+            <input type="password" required id="password" name="password"><br/><br/>
+
+            <label><%= locale.title %>:</label><br/>
+            <input value="<%=post['title'] %>" required name="title"><br/><br/>
+
+            <label><%= locale.post_content %>:</label><br/>
+            <textarea required name="content"><%= post['content'] %></textarea><br/><br/>
+
+            <label><%= locale.tags %>:</label><br/>
+            <input value="<%= post['tags'] %>" name="tags"><br/><br/>
+
+            <label>Delete forever (no undo): </label><input name="delete" type="checkbox"><br/>
+            <input type="submit" value="Submit"><br/>
+        </form>
+    </body>
+</html>
--- a/views/forms/new_post.ejs
+++ b/views/forms/new_post.ejs
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+</html>
+    <head>
+        <%- include('../partials/head.ejs') %>
+    </head>
+    <body>
+    <form action="/submit_post" method="POST">
+        <label><%= locale.username %>:</label><br/>
+        <input required name="username"><br/><br/>
+
+        <label><%= locale.password %>:</label><br/>
+        <input type="password" required id="password" name="password"><br/><br/>
+
+        <label><%= locale.title %>:</label><br/>
+        <input required name="title"><br/><br/>
+
+        <label><%= locale.post_content %>:</label><br/>
+        <textarea required name="content"></textarea><br/><br/>
+
+        <label><%= locale.tags %>:</label><br/>
+        <input name="tags"><br/><br/>
+
+        <input type="submit" value="Submit"><br/>
+    </body>
+</form></html>
--- a/views/forms/signup.ejs
+++ b/views/forms/signup.ejs
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+</html lang="<%= config.language %>">
+    <head>
+        <%- include("../partials/head") %>
+    </head>
+    <body>
+        <form action="/submit_signup" method="POST">
+            <label><%= locale.username %></label><br/>
+            <input required name="username"><br/><br/>
+
+            <label><%= locale.prettyname %></label><br/>
+            <input required name="prettyname"><br/><br/>
+
+            <label><%= locale.password %></label><br/>
+            <input type="password" required id="password" name="password"><br/><br/>
+
+            <label><%= locale.description %></label><br/>
+            <textarea id="description" name="description"></textarea><br/><br/>
+
+            <label><%- locale.signup_agreement %>: </label><input type="checkbox" name="agreement" required><br/>
+            <input type="submit" value="Submit"><br/>
+        </form>
+    </body>
+</html>
--- a/views/headers/site_wide.ejs
+++ b/views/headers/site_wide.ejs
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+<a id='home-page-link' href="/"><%= locale.home_page %></a>
+/
+<% if (config.rss == true) { %>
+    <a id='rss-link' href="/rss">
+			<img class='icon' src='/icons/rss.png' alt="<%= locale.rss_feed %>" title='<%= locale.rss_feed %>'>
+    </a>
+<% } %>
+<% if (config.atom == true) { %>
+    <a id='atom-link' href="/atom">
+			<img class='icon' src='/icons/atom.png' alt='<%= locale.atom_feed %>' title='<%= locale.atom_feed %>'>
+    </a>
+<% } %>
+/
+<a id='new-post-link' href="<%= config.new_post_url %>"><%= locale.new_post %></a>
+/
+<% if (config.allow_signup == true) { %>
+    <a id='signup-link' href="<%= config.signup_url %>"><%= locale.sign_up %></a>
+<% } %>
+/
+<form id='search-form' method="GET" action="/search" style="display: inline">
+	<input type="text" placeholder="🔍" name="q"><input type="submit" value="Search">
+</form>
+<br/>
+<div id='site-name'>
+	<h1><a id='home-page-link' href="/"><%= config.site_name %></a></h1>
+</div>
+<div id='site-description'>
+	<h2><%- config.site_description %></h2>
+</div>
+<%- config.seperator %>
--- a/views/headers/tag.ejs
+++ b/views/headers/tag.ejs
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-<h1>
-    Post's tagged "<%- tag %>":
-</h1>
+<div id='tag-page-title'>
+	<h1>
+	    #<%- tag %>
+	</h1>
+</div>
 <%- config.seperator %>
--- a/views/headers/timeline.ejs
+++ b/views/headers/timeline.ejs
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-<h1>
-    <%- config.site_name %>
-</h1>
-<h2>
-    <%- config.site_description %>
-</h2>
-<a href="<%= config.rss_url %>">RSS Feed</a><br/>
-<a href="<%= config.signup_url %>">Sign Up</a><br/>
-<a href="<%= config.delete_account_url %>">Delete Account</a><br/>
-<% if (config.enable_hitcount == true) { %>
-Hitcount: <%= hitcount %>
-<% } %>
-<%- config.seperator %>
--- a/views/headers/user.ejs
+++ b/views/headers/user.ejs
@@ -1,4 +1,17 @@
-<h1>
-    <%- user.prettyname %>'s posts
-</h1>
+<div id='user-page-title'>
+	<h1>
+	    <%= user.prettyname %>
+	</h1>
+</div>
+<p><%- func.render_md(user.description) %></p>
+<a if='edit-account-link' href="<%= config.edit_account_base_url %>/<%= user.id %>">
+            <img class='icon' src='/icons/edit.png' alt='<%= locale.edit_account %>' title='<%= locale.edit_account %>'>
+</a>
+|
+<a id='rss-link' href="/user/<%= user.username %>/rss">
+			<img class='icon' src='/icons/rss.png' alt="<%= locale.rss_feed %>" title='<%= locale.rss_feed %>'>
+</a>
+<a id='atom-link' href="/user/<%= user.username %>/atom">
+			<img class='icon' src='/icons/atom.png' alt='<%= locale.atom_feed %>' title='<%= locale.atom_feed %>'>
+</a>
 <%- config.seperator %>
--- a/views/indexes/all_pages.ejs
+++ b/views/indexes/all_pages.ejs
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html lang="<%= config.charset %>">
+    <head>
+        <%- include("../partials/head") %>
+    </head>
+    <body>
+        Misc:<br/>
+        <a href="/">Home Page</a><br/>
+        <a href="<%= config.new_post_url %>">New Post Form</a><br/>
+        <a href="<%= config.signup_url %>">Signup Form</a><br/>
+        Indexes:<br/>
+        <a href="/index/posts">Posts Index</a><br/>
+        <a href="/index/users">Users Index</a><br/>
+        <a href="/index/comments">Comments Index</a><br/>
+        Posts:<br/>
+        <% for (let postID = 0; postID < posts.length; postID++) { %>
+        <% if (posts[postID]["deleted"] != true) { %>
+        <a href="/post/<%= postID %>"><%= posts[postID]["title"] %></a><br/>
+        <% }; %>
+        <% }; %>
+        Comments:<br/>
+        <% for (let postID = 0; postID < comments.length; postID++) { %>
+        <% for (let comment_index = 0; comment_index < comments[postID]['comments'].length; comment_index++) { %>
+        <a href="/comment/<%= postID %>-<%= comment_index %>"><%= postID %>-<%= comment_index %></a><br/>
+        <% }; %>
+        <% }; %>
+        Users:<br/>
+        <% for (let userID = 0; userID < users.length; userID++) { %>
+        <% if (users[userID]["deleted"] != true) { %>
+        <a href="/user/<%= users[userID]["username"] %>"><%= users[userID]["username"] %></a><br/>
+        <% }; %>
+        <% }; %>
+        Edit Posts:<br/>
+        <% for (let postID = 0; postID < posts.length; postID++) { %>
+        <% if (posts[postID]["deleted"] != true) { %>
+        <a href="<%= config.edit_post_base_url %>/<%= postID %>">Edit <%= posts[postID]["title"] %></a><br/>
+        <% }; %>
+        <% }; %>
+        Edit Users:<br/>
+        <% for (let userID = 0; userID < users.length; userID++) { %>
+        <% if (users[userID]["deleted"] != true) { %>
+        <a href="<%= config.edit_account_base_url %>/<%= users[userID]["username"] %>">Edit <%= users[userID]["username"] %></a><br/>
+        <% }; %>
+        <% }; %>
+        <!-- TODO add tags -->
+    </body>
+</html>
--- a/views/indexes/comments.ejs
+++ b/views/indexes/comments.ejs
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html lang="<%= config.charset %>">
+    <head>
+        <%- include("../partials/head") %>
+    </head>
+    <body>
+        <% for (let postID = 0; postID < comments.length; postID++) { %>
+        <% for (let comment_index = 0; comment_index < comments[postID]['comments'].length; comment_index++) { %>
+        <a href="/comment/<%= postID %>-<%= comment_index %>"><%= postID %>-<%= comment_index %></a><br/>
+        <% }; %>
+        <% }; %>
+    </body>
+</html>
--- a/views/indexes/posts.ejs
+++ b/views/indexes/posts.ejs
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html lang="<%= config.charset %>">
+    <head>
+        <%- include("../partials/head") %>
+    </head>
+    <body>
+        <% for (let postID = 0; postID < posts.length; postID++) { %>
+        <% if (posts[postID]["deleted"] != true) { %>
+        <a href="/post/<%= postID %>"><%= posts[postID]["title"] %></a><br/>
+        <% }; %>
+        <% }; %>
+    </body>
+</html>
--- a/views/indexes/users.ejs
+++ b/views/indexes/users.ejs
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html lang="<%= config.charset %>">
+    <head>
+        <%- include("../partials/head") %>
+    </head>
+    <body>
+        <% for (let userID = 0; userID < users.length; userID++) { %>
+        <% if (users[userID]["deleted"] != true) { %>
+        <a href="/user/<%= users[userID]["username"] %>"><%= users[userID]["username"] %></a><br/>
+        <% }; %>
+        <% }; %>
+    </body>
+</html>
--- a/views/pages/comment.ejs
+++ b/views/pages/comment.ejs
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html lang="en">
+    <head>
+        <%- include('../partials/head'); %>
+    </head>
+    <body>
+        <header id="site-header">
+            <%- include("../headers/site_wide") %>
+        </header>
+        <div id="comment">
+            <%- include("../partials/comment"); %>
+        </div>
+        <%- config.seperator %>
+        <b><%= locale.reply %>:</b>
+        <div id="post-commentform">
+            <!-- Comment form -->
+            <form method="POST" action="/submit_comment">
+                <input type="hidden" name="post_index" value="<%= postID %>">
+                <label><%= locale.username %>:</label><br/><input name="name"><br/><br/>
+                <label><%= locale.comment %>:</label><br/><textarea name="content">>> <%- postID %>-<%- commentID %>
+</textarea><br/>
+                <button type="submit"><%= locale.submit %></button>
+            </form>
+        </div>
+    </body>
+</html>
--- a/views/pages/post.ejs
+++ b/views/pages/post.ejs
@@ -4,10 +4,13 @@
        <%- include('../partials/head'); %>
    </head>
    <body>
+        <header id="site-header">
+            <%- include("../headers/site_wide") %>
+        </header>
        <div id="posts">
            <%- include('../posts/post'); %>
        </div>
-        <footer>
+        <footer id='footer'>
            <%- include('../partials/footer'); %>
        </footer>
    </body>
--- a/views/pages/search.ejs
+++ b/views/pages/search.ejs
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html lang='<%- config.locale %>'>
+	<head>
+		<%- include('../partials/head'); %>
+	</head>
+	<body>
+		<div id='site-header'>
+			<%- include('../headers/site_wide'); %>
+		</div>
+
+		<div id='advanced-search'>
+			<form method="GET" action="/search">
+				<label>Search Term:</label>
+				<input type='text' placeholder='🔍' name='q' value='<%- search_term %>'><br/>
+
+				<label>Search for:</label><br/>
+				<label>Post:</label>
+				<input type="checkbox" name="type" value="post" <% if (search_type.includes('post')) {%>checked<% } %>><br/>
+				<label>User:</label>
+				<input type="checkbox" name="type" value="user" <% if (search_type.includes('user')) {%>checked<% } %>><br/>
+
+				<input type="submit" value="Submit">
+			</form>
+		</div>
+
+		<%- config.seperator %>
+		
+		<div id='results'>
+			<% search_results.posts.forEach((result, index) => { %>
+			<a href="/post/<%- result.id %>"><%- result.title %></a><br/>
+			<% }); %>
+			<% search_results.users.forEach((result, index) => { %>
+			<a href="/user/<%- result.username %>"><%- result.prettyname %></a><br/>
+			<% }); %>
+		</div>
+	</body>
+</html>
--- a/views/pages/tag.ejs
+++ b/views/pages/tag.ejs
@@ -4,19 +4,18 @@
        <%- include('../partials/head'); %>
    </head>
    <body>
-        <div id="header">
+        <header id="site-header">
+            <%- include('../headers/site_wide'); %>
+        </header>
+        <header id='page-header'>
            <%- include('../headers/tag'); %>
-        </div>
+        </header>
        <div id="posts">
            <% for (let index = posts.length - 1; index >= 0; index--) { %>
-                <% posts[index].tags.forEach((current_tag, tag_index) => { %> 
-                    <% if (current_tag == tag) { %>
-                        <%- include('../posts/tag', {post: posts[index], postID: index}); %>
-                    <% } %>
-                <% }) %>
+                  <%- include('../posts/tag', {post: posts[index], postID: index, user: users[posts[index].userID], comments: comments[index]}); %>
            <% } %>
        </div>
-        <footer>
+        <footer id='footer'>
            <%- include('../partials/footer'); %>
        </footer>
    </body>
--- a/views/pages/timeline.ejs
+++ b/views/pages/timeline.ejs
@@ -4,15 +4,21 @@
        <%- include('../partials/head'); %>
    </head>
    <body>
-        <div id="header">
+        <header id="site-header">
+            <%- include("../headers/site_wide") %> 
+        </header>
+        <header id='page-header'>
            <%- include('../headers/timeline'); %>
-        </div>
+        </header>
        <div id="posts">
            <% for (let index = posts.length - 1; index >= 0; index--) { %>
-                <%- include('../posts/timeline', {post: posts[index], index: index, user: users[posts[index].userID]}); %>
+            <% if (posts[index]["deleted"] != true) { %>
+					<%- console.log(posts[index]) %>
+                    <%- include('../posts/timeline', {post: posts[index], postID: index, user: users[posts[index].userID], comments: comments[index]}); %>
+                <% } %>
            <% } %>
        </div>
-        <footer>
+        <footer id='footer'>
            <%- include('../partials/footer'); %>
        </footer>
    </body>
--- a/views/pages/user.ejs
+++ b/views/pages/user.ejs
@@ -4,17 +4,18 @@
        <%- include('../partials/head'); %>
    </head>
    <body>
-        <div id="header">
+        <header id="site-header">
+            <%- include("../headers/site_wide") %>
+        </header>
+        <header id='page-header'>
            <%- include('../headers/user'); %>
-        </div>
+        </header>
        <div id="posts">
            <% for (let index = posts.length - 1; index >= 0; index--) { %>
-                <% if (posts[index].userID == userID) { %>
-                    <%- include('../posts/user', {post: posts[index], index: index, user: user}); %>
-                    <% } %>
+                <%- include('../posts/user', {post: posts[index], postID: index, user: user, comments: comments[index]}); %>
            <% } %>
        </div>
-        <footer>
+        <footer id='footer'>
            <%- include('../partials/footer'); %>
        </footer>
    </body>
--- a/views/partials/comment.ejs
+++ b/views/partials/comment.ejs
@@ -1,2 +1,13 @@
-<b><%= comment.name %></b> <%= format(fromUnixTime(comment.pubdate), config.date_format) %> <i>No. <%= comment.id %></i>:<br/>
-<%= comment.content %>
+<span id='comment-name'>
+	<b><%= comment.name %></b>
+</span>
+<span id='comment-date' class='date'>
+	<%= func.unix_time_to_date_format(comment.pubdate) %>
+</span>
+<span id='comment-id' style='display: inline'>
+	<a href='/comment/<%= postID %>-<%= comment.id %>'>No. <%= postID %>-<%= comment.id %></a>:<br/>
+</span>
+<span id='comment-content'>
+	<%- func.render_comment(comment.content) %>
+</span>
+<br/>
--- a/views/partials/footer.ejs
+++ b/views/partials/footer.ejs
@@ -1,2 +1,4 @@
-Site is ran by deadvey<br/>
-<%- config.attribution %>
+<a id='site-index-link' href="/index/pages"><%= locale.site_index %></a><br/>
+<%= locale.site_ran_by %> <%= config.site_admin %><br/>
+<%- locale.attribution %><br/>
+<%= locale.AI_consent %> <!-- remove consent for AI scrapers -->
--- a/views/partials/head.ejs
+++ b/views/partials/head.ejs
@@ -5,4 +5,5 @@

 </style>

-<link rel="stylesheet" href="custom.css">
+<link rel="stylesheet" href="/default.css">
+<link rel="stylesheet" href="/custom.css">
--- a/views/partials/message.ejs
+++ b/views/partials/message.ejs
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html lang="<%= config.language %>">
+    <head>
+        <%- include('head') %>
+    </head>
+    <body>
+        <div id="header">
+            <%- include("../headers/site_wide") %>
+        </div>
+        <%- message %>
+    </body>
+</html>
+
--- a/views/posts/post.ejs
+++ b/views/posts/post.ejs
@@ -1,29 +1,60 @@
-<h1>
-    <%= post.title %>
-</h1>
-<%= post.content %><br/>
-<i>
-    By <a href="/user/<%= user.username %>"><%= user.username %></a><br/>
-</i>
-<br/>
-<%- hyperlink_tags(post.tags) %><br/>
-<a href="<%= config.edit_post_base_url %>/<%= postID %>">Edit</a><br/>
-<i>Published: <%= format(fromUnixTime(post.pubdate), config.date_format) %></i><br/>
-<i>Last Modified: <%= format(fromUnixTime(post.editdate), config.date_format) %></i><br/>
-
-<%- config.seperator %>
-
-<!-- Comment form -->
-<form method="POST" action="/submit_comment">
-    <input type="hidden" name="post_index" value="<%= postID %>">
-    <input placeholder="username" name="name"><br/>
-    <textarea placeholder="comment" name="content"></textarea><br/>
-    <button type="submit">Submit</button>
-</form>
-
-<% comments.forEach((comment, postID) => { %>
-    <%- include('../partials/comment', {comment: comment}) %>
-<% }) %>
+<div id="post-header">
+    <h2>
+        <a href='/post/<%= post['id'] %>'><%= post.title %></a>
+    </h2>
+</div>
+
+<div id="post-tags">
+    <%- func.render_tags(post.tags) %><br/>
+</div>
+
+<div id="post-content">
+    <p>
+        <%- func.render_md(post.content) %><br/>
+    </p>
+</div>
+<div id="post-details">
+    <span id="post-author">
+        <i><%= locale.written_by %> <a href="/user/<%= user.username %>"><%= user.prettyname %></a></i>
+    </span>
+    -
+    <span id="post-pubdate">
+        <i><%= locale.published %>: <%= func.unix_time_to_date_format(post.pubdate) %></i><br/>
+    </span>
+    <div id="post-editdate">
+        <i><%= locale.last_modified %>: <%= func.unix_time_to_date_format(post.pubdate) %></i><br/>
+    </div>
+    <div id="post-edit">
+        <a href="<%= config.edit_post_base_url %>/<%= post["id"] %>">
+            <img class='icon' src='/icons/edit.png' alt='<%= locale.edit_post %>' title='<%= locale.edit_post %>'>
+        </a><br/>
+    </div>
+    <% if (config.enable_hitcount == true) { %>
+    <div id='post-hitcount'>
+	Hitcount: <%- post.hitcount %>
+    </div>
+    <% } %>
+</div>
+
+<hr/>
+
+<div id="post-commentform">
+    <!-- Comment form -->
+    <form method="POST" action="/submit_comment">
+        <input type="hidden" name="post_index" value="<%= post["id"] %>">
+        <label><%= locale.username %>:</label><br/><input name="name"><br/><br/>
+        <label><%= locale.comment %>:</label><br/><textarea name="content"></textarea><br/>
+        <button type="submit"><%= locale.submit %></button>
+    </form>
+</div>
+
+<div id="post-comments">
+    <% comments.forEach((comment, index) => { %>
+        <div id="comment-no-<%= post.id %>-<%= comment.id %>" class="comment post-comment-<%= index %>">
+            <%- include('../partials/comment', {comment: comment}) %>
+        </div>
+    <% }) %>
+</div>

 <%- config.seperator %>

--- a/views/posts/tag.ejs
+++ b/views/posts/tag.ejs
@@ -1,21 +1,32 @@
-<h3>
-    <%= post.title %>
-</h3>
-<%= post.content %><br/>
-<a href="/post/<%- postID %>">Permalink</a><br/>
-<%- hyperlink_tags(post.tags) %>
+<div id="post-header">
+    <h2>
+        <a href='/post/<%= post['id'] %>'><%= post.title %></a>
+    </h2>
+</div>

-<!-- Comment form -->
-<form method="POST" action="/submit_comment">
-    <input type="hidden" name="post_index" value="<%= postID %>">
-    <input placeholder="username" name="name"><br/>
-    <textarea placeholder="comment" name="content"></textarea><br/>
-    <button type="submit">Submit</button>
-</form>
+<div id="post-tags">
+    <%- func.render_tags(post.tags) %><br/>
+</div>

-<% comments[postID].forEach((comment) => { %>
-    <%- include('../partials/comment', {comment: comment}) %>
-<% }) %>
+<div id="post-content">
+    <p>
+        <%- func.render_md(post.content) %>
+    </p>
+</div>
+<div id="post-details">
+    <span id="post-author">
+    <i><a href="/user/<%= user.username %>"><%= user.prettyname %></a></i>
+    </span>
+    -
+    <span id="post-pubdate">
+        <i><%= func.unix_time_to_date_format(post.pubdate) %></i><br/>
+    </span>
+    <br/>
+    <div id="post-edit">
+        <a href="<%= config.edit_post_base_url %>/<%= post["id"] %>">
+            <img class='icon' src='/icons/edit.png' alt='<%= locale.edit_post %>' title='<%= locale.edit_post %>'>
+        </a><br/>
+    </div>
+</div>

 <%- config.seperator %>
-
--- a/views/posts/timeline.ejs
+++ b/views/posts/timeline.ejs
@@ -1,23 +1,36 @@
-<h3>
-    <%= post.title %>
-</h3>
-<%= post.content %><br/>
-<a href="/post/<%- index %>">Permalink</a><br/>
-<i>
-    By <a href="/user/<%= user.username %>"><%= user.username %></a><br/>
-</i>
+<div id="post-header">
+    <h2>
+        <a href='/post/<%= post['id'] %>'><%= post.title %></a>
+    </h2>
+</div>

-<!-- Comment form -->
-<form method="POST" action="/submit_comment">
-    <input type="hidden" name="post_index" value="<%= index %>">
-    <input placeholder="username" name="name"><br/>
-    <textarea placeholder="comment" name="content"></textarea><br/>
-    <button type="submit">Submit</button>
-</form>
+<div id="post-tags">
+    <%- func.render_tags(post.tags) %><br/>
+</div>

-<% comments[index].forEach((comment, index) => { %>
-    <%- include('../partials/comment', {comment: comment}) %>
-<% }) %>
+<div id="post-content">
+    <p>
+        <%- func.render_md(post.content) %>
+    </p>
+</div>
+<div id="post-details">
+    <span id="post-author">
+    	<i><a href="/user/<%= user.username %>"><%= user.prettyname %></a></i>
+    </span>
+	-
+	<a if='edit-account-link' href="<%= config.edit_account_base_url %>/<%= user.id %>">
+            <img class='icon' src='/icons/edit.png' alt='<%= locale.edit_account %>' title='<%= locale.edit_account %>'>
+	</a>
+    -
+    <span id="post-pubdate">
+        <i><%= func.unix_time_to_date_format(post.pubdate) %></i><br/>
+    </span>
+    <br/>
+    <div id="post-edit">
+        <a href="<%= config.edit_post_base_url %>/<%= post["id"] %>">
+            <img class='icon' src='/icons/edit.png' alt='<%= locale.edit_post %>' title='<%= locale.edit_post %>'>
+        </a><br/>
+    </div>
+</div>

 <%- config.seperator %>
-
--- a/views/posts/user.ejs
+++ b/views/posts/user.ejs
@@ -1,20 +1,32 @@
-<h3>
-    <%= post.title %>
-</h3>
-<%= post.content %><br/>
-<a href="/post/<%- index %>">Permalink</a><br/>
+<div id="post-header">
+    <h2>
+        <a href='/post/<%= post['id'] %>'><%= post.title %></a>
+    </h2>
+</div>

-<!-- Comment form -->
-<form method="POST" action="/submit_comment">
-    <input type="hidden" name="post_index" value="<%= index %>">
-    <input placeholder="username" name="name"><br/>
-    <textarea placeholder="comment" name="content"></textarea><br/>
-    <button type="submit">Submit</button>
-</form>
+<div id="post-tags">
+    <%- func.render_tags(post.tags) %><br/>
+</div>

-<% comments[index].forEach((comment, index) => { %>
-    <%- include('../partials/comment', {comment: comment}) %>
-<% }) %>
+<div id="post-content">
+    <p>
+        <%- func.render_md(post.content) %>
+    </p>
+</div>
+<div id="post-details">
+    <span id="post-author">
+    <i><a href="/user/<%= user.username %>"><%= user.prettyname %></a></i>
+    </span>
+    -
+    <span id="post-pubdate">
+        <i><%= func.unix_time_to_date_format(post.pubdate) %></i><br/>
+    </span>
+    <br/>
+    <div id="post-edit">
+        <a href="<%= config.edit_post_base_url %>/<%= post["id"] %>">
+            <img class='icon' src='/icons/edit.png' alt='<%= locale.edit_post %>' title='<%= locale.edit_post %>'>
+        </a><br/>
+    </div>
+</div>

 <%- config.seperator %>
-
--- a/views/syndication/atom.ejs
+++ b/views/syndication/atom.ejs
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="<%= config.charset %>" ?>
+<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
+	<title><%= config.site_name %></title>
+	<link><%= config.site_url %></title>
+	<description><%= config.site_description %></description>
+	<updated><%= func.unix_time_to_date_format(getUnixTime(new Date()),"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'") %></updated>
+	<id><%= config.site_url %></id>
+	<% for (let postID = posts.length-1; postID >= 0; postID--) { %>
+		<% if (posts[postID]["deleted"] != true) { %>
+			<entry>
+				<title><%= posts[postID]["title"] %></title>
+				<link><%= config.site_url %>/post/<%= postID %></link>
+				<summary><![CDATA[<%- (posts[postID]["content"]) %>]]></summary>
+				<guid isPermaLink="true"><%= config.site_url %>/post/<%= postID %></guid>
+				<pubDate><%- func.unix_time_to_date_format(posts[postID]['pubdate'],"yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'") %></pubDate>
+				<% tags = posts[postID]['tags'].split(',') %>
+				<% for (let tag_index = 0; tag_index < tags.length; tag_index++) { %>
+					<category><![CDATA[<%= tags[tag_index] %>]]></category>
+				<% } %>
+			</entry>
+		<% } %>
+	<% } %>
+</feed>
--- a/views/syndication/rss.ejs
+++ b/views/syndication/rss.ejs
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<rss version="2.0">
+	<channel>
+		<title><%= config.site_name %></title>
+		<link><%= config.site_url %></link>
+		<description><%= config.site_description %></description>
+		<% for (let postID = posts.length-1; postID >= 0; postID--) { %>
+		<% if (posts[postID]["deleted"] != true) { %>
+		<item>
+			<title><%= posts[postID]["title"] %></title>
+			<link><%= config.site_url %>/post/<%= postID %></link>
+			<description><![CDATA[<%- (posts[postID]["content"]) %>]]></description>
+			<guid isPermaLink="true"><%= config.site_url %>/post/<%= postID %></guid>
+			<pubDate><%= func.unix_time_to_date_format(posts[postID]['pubdate'],'EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss') %></pubDate>
+			<author><%= users[posts[postID]['userID']]['prettyname'] %></author>
+			<% tags = posts[postID]['tags'].split(',') %>
+			<% for (let tag_index = 0; tag_index < tags.length; tag_index++) { %>
+				<category><![CDATA[<%= tags[tag_index] %>]]></category>
+			<% } %>
+		</item>
+		<% } %>
+		<% } %>
+	</channel>
+</rss>
--- a/webroot/default.css
+++ b/webroot/default.css
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+body {
+    	max-width: 900px;
+	margin: auto;
+}
+#site-header {
+	margin-top: 10px; 
+	text-align: center;
+}
+#footer {
+	margin-bottom: 10px;
+}
+.icon {
+	width: 15px;
+}
+input, textarea, button {
+	border: none;
+	border-radius: 5px;
+	font-size: 20px;
+
+}
+textarea {
+   width: 100%;
+   height: 250px;
+   field-sizing: content; /* Only supported by Chromium */
+}
+a {
+	text-decoration: none;
+}
+#search-form input {
+	  border: none;
+	  border-radius: 0px;
+	  font-size: 14px;
+   }
+}
+a:hover {
+	text-decoration: underline;
+}
+@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
+	body {
+		background-color: #333333;
+		color: #ffffff;
+	}
+	a {
+		color: #546BEB;
+	}
+	a:visited {
+		color: #EF46F1;
+	}
+	input, textarea, button {
+		background-color: #1E1E1E;
+		color: #ffffff;
+	}
+	hr {
+		color: white;
+	}
+	.comment:nth-child(even) {
+		background: #1E1E1E;
+	}
+
+}
+
+@media (prefers-color-scheme: light) {
+	input, textarea, button {
+		background-color: #DEDEDE;
+		color: #000000;
+	}
+	hr {
+		color: black;
+	}
+	.comment:nth-child(even) {
+		background: #EEEEEE;
+	}
+}
--- a/webroot/icons/atom.png
+++ b/webroot/icons/atom.png
--- a/webroot/icons/edit.png
+++ b/webroot/icons/edit.png
--- a/webroot/icons/rss.png
+++ b/webroot/icons/rss.png
Author	SHA1	Message	Date
deadvey	ad4efffed5	Database reading changes should work, gotta implement same for writing and finish up testing then merge back into master	2026-03-07 17:56:53 +00:00
deadvey	30cec0f7f0	Sydication updates	2026-03-06 21:26:00 +00:00
deadvey	9f5fd261c3	Changing how data is requested in DEV branch	2026-03-05 13:53:10 +00:00
deadvey	3fab094545	Made some small changes	2026-03-03 20:39:40 +00:00
Nullifier	9be261d415	Japanese locale typo fixed	2026-01-18 09:41:50 +00:00
Nullifier	9398919711	Japanese Locale - By Nullifier	2026-01-17 21:49:42 +00:00
deadvey	545a848479	Stupid spelling error	2026-01-17 14:52:30 +00:00
deadvey	54ffac931d	Added english Australian, apparently there's no differences with GB and AU	2026-01-17 12:11:04 +00:00
deadvey	18b842e48c	Merge pull request 'add(locale): sv-SE' (#3 ) from pickzelle/blogger-nodejs:master into master Reviewed-on: #3	2026-01-16 23:23:52 +01:00
Pickzelle	c7bc64e59e	add(locale): sv-SE	2026-01-16 23:19:02 +01:00
deadvey	9383bd8058	Template .jsonc for locales	2026-01-16 21:25:47 +00:00
deadvey	d554fce402	Added translated_by key to the locales	2026-01-16 21:15:11 +00:00
deadvey	d17fcf2dd2	Merge pull request 'fix: these don't need to be executable' (#2 ) from javalsai/blogger-nodejs:fix-permissions into master Reviewed-on: #2	2026-01-16 22:12:25 +01:00
deadvey	a1fa0e3dbc	Merge pull request 'add(locale): es-ES' (#1 ) from javalsai/blogger-nodejs:locale-es into master Reviewed-on: #1	2026-01-16 22:12:17 +01:00
javalsai	f44a15ed41	fix: these don't need to be executable	2026-01-16 21:12:58 +01:00
javalsai	ab1fa5e69a	add(locale): es-ES	2026-01-16 21:10:48 +01:00
deadvey	be75382ead	Add start up checks	2025-12-19 17:31:28 +00:00
deadvey	3d58c5b244	Some minor changes to data handling error messages and fixed a issue occuring in the forms routs that used the old parameters for data.getdata	2025-11-30 17:04:15 +00:00
deadvey	54b6f018cf	Updated the data reading to have a data request limit, also updated docs on new configuration options	2025-11-27 11:44:27 +00:00
deadvey	7d38752f34	Changed how comments are stored and how data is retrieved	2025-11-27 11:34:12 +00:00
deadvey	ef8711b0e1	Added a pipe \| between the edit and RSS/ATOM buttons to make them more seperated	2025-11-05 10:47:11 +00:00
deadvey	c3de930b50	Split the page-header and site-header into seperate sections	2025-11-05 10:34:41 +00:00
deadvey	1d1e4d863e	Untracked robots.txt	2025-10-25 11:32:28 +01:00
deadvey	3b47701c18	Made some divs consistent, the header was a div type with id='header' and the footer was a footer type with no id, so now they are both both. Also added some margins at the top and bottom of the page in CSS	2025-10-25 11:31:08 +01:00
deadvey	ddf9fcae13	Added icons for RSS and ATOM to make it look nicer	2025-10-24 13:59:41 +01:00
deadvey	9f0eb13bb4	BAD BUG!	2025-10-24 13:10:53 +01:00
deadvey	2d33ce79a8	Fixed a bug where comments could be submitted without any content and where the hitcount was incremented before the program checked if the post existed	2025-10-24 13:05:31 +01:00
deadvey	4ad7352fcc	Updated some EJS and CSS to make it look a bit nicer (I am hopeless at UX)	2025-10-24 12:48:54 +01:00
deadvey	f8f05221b2	removed custom.css from tracking	2025-10-24 12:29:57 +01:00
deadvey	35163b5584	Fixed an issue with an incomplete example-config.json that made the server not work at all. Also added a default.css file	2025-10-24 12:28:22 +01:00
deadvey	66423cb3c0	There is now a Makefile because I learnt make syntax	2025-10-19 21:19:13 +01:00
deadvey	cb7dcde7c5	Made tags case insensitive	2025-10-09 15:13:49 +01:00
deadvey	553f126f2a	Changed how comments are ided and classed	2025-10-09 14:43:48 +01:00
deadvey	6f9e7aee13	small change in comment ids	2025-10-09 14:38:37 +01:00
deadvey	23add8897b	divs to spans because correct html	2025-10-09 14:30:48 +01:00
deadvey	84a34d94f3	removed newlines from comments ejs	2025-10-09 14:28:51 +01:00
deadvey	783f386dfe	tiny fix	2025-10-09 14:19:16 +01:00
deadvey	e63fb4a27a	updated ejs	2025-10-09 14:18:03 +01:00
deadvey	2ada1d970f	Created a per-post hitcount as well a writedata() function that can write to a particular index or to a whole data type	2025-10-02 13:34:55 +01:00
deadvey	17919e3078	README	2025-10-02 11:13:39 +01:00
deadvey	179a4f83bc	Bug fix, most recent post would not show in the post's permalink due to an indexing bug, pretty simple fix, I'm just a moron.	2025-10-02 10:47:38 +01:00
deadvey	d9d45ff6ea	Tracking /webroot, contains custom.css and robots.txt, might have to add favicon.ico too.	2025-10-02 10:43:44 +01:00
deadvey	87fd97730e	Escape potentially dangerous input in the search field	2025-10-01 17:45:31 +01:00
deadvey	acca51da20	README	2025-10-01 10:51:07 +01:00
deadvey	788672cbea	Bug fix with the search page's EJS	2025-10-01 10:44:34 +01:00
deadvey	521dbccc7e	Basic search functionality on the frontpage, I want to add support for more advanced searches like using boolean operators, but right now it's pretty basic.	2025-10-01 10:40:36 +01:00
deadvey	8ad8f01043	Added basic search functionality (no frontend for it yet)	2025-09-30 23:15:33 +01:00
deadvey	d27330a3db	README update I removed and added some stuff to the todo list	2025-09-24 23:41:29 +01:00
deadvey	996bf0018b	bug fix numbers should be parsed Signed-off-by: deadvey <deadvey@deadvey.com>	2025-09-24 21:21:48 +01:00
deadvey	45af80f747	Updated how comments are searched for commentID's aren't neccesarily = to the index, so instead of using it as an index, I just use a for loop to find the matching comment. I also added another form at the bottom of the timeline to trick bots Signed-off-by: deadvey <deadvey@deadvey.com>	2025-09-24 21:12:21 +01:00
deadvey	23744f4000	Bug fix and Document fix Removed the string object from config.json as it's now all in the locale. and I fixed data.getdata() to return an error code if the index is out of bounds, it now returns a 1. Signed-off-by: deadvey <deadvey@deadvey.com>	2025-09-24 20:57:47 +01:00
deadvey	9305559660	Documentation fix String -> Boolean Signed-off-by: deadvey <deadvey@deadvey.com>	2025-09-24 20:39:42 +01:00
deadvey	35e6b94ba1	Support for uncached data loading So you don't have to restart the server, you can add "cache_data": false option to config.json to not cache data. Documented in CONFIG.md I added a require_module function that either does or does not cache the data based on this configuration option. Signed-off-by: deadvey <deadvey@deadvey.com>	2025-09-24 20:37:35 +01:00
deadvey	3f173fc2e3	bug fix removed data/data.json from tracking Signed-off-by: deadvey <deadvey@deadvey.com>	2025-09-24 20:20:48 +01:00
deadvey	b44762ba7c	bug fix Hitcount updates visually, previously it just showed 1 on the frontend as the value wasn't actually being retrieved from the data.getdata() Signed-off-by: deadvey <deadvey@deadvey.com>	2025-09-24 20:18:05 +01:00
deadvey	1ecc223433	small changes Signed-off-by: deadvey <deadvey@deadvey.com>	2025-09-24 20:07:49 +01:00
deadvey	22a7983737	data.getdata() is fully implemented I think it all works now... Signed-off-by: deadvey <deadvey@deadvey.com>	2025-09-24 19:31:32 +01:00
deadvey	e597fd78f7	Comment replies on comment page There is now a reply form on the comment pages to reply to that comment Syntax: >> postID-commentID Signed-off-by: deadvey <deadvey@deadvey.com>	2025-09-24 17:33:25 +01:00
deadvey	ef7178cc3f	Comment submission works I fixed the comment submission to use the new way of storing comments and their counter. I also fixed the AI-consent field in en-US because I accidently had · instead of spaces (from when I copy pasted from vim) Signed-off-by: deadvey <deadvey@deadvey.com>	2025-09-24 17:20:20 +01:00
max	bfaf957ae2	removed func.get_comment() It is no longer needed Signed-off-by: max <deadvey@localhost.localdomain>	2025-09-24 17:06:55 +01:00
max	e6476dcd4e	Everything uses data.getdata() data.getdata() excepts two parameters, if desired, the second will be the index, however if you don't specify anything, the whole array will be returned Also, comments now have a composite key of postID-commentID, with each post's comments having their own set starting at 0, this makes it easier to index and find a specific comment, and making the getcomment() function unessesary	2025-09-24 17:06:13 +01:00
max	93c5f13750	Clean up changes Seperated all routes into seperate files for neatness, and I've made the comments.json store only the comments, comments_counter is in the new data.json file which also stores the hitcount. Signed-off-by: max <deadvey@localhost.localdomain>	2025-09-24 10:02:28 +01:00
max	0541b704db	ExpressJS routes in different files ExpressJS routes for the syndication stuff is now in a seperate file, will now do the other routes. Signed-off-by: max <deadvey@localhost.localdomain>	2025-09-23 17:38:20 +01:00
max	5e4eb38763	started implementing data functions for easy requests to data	2025-09-23 15:01:28 +01:00
deadvey	09967a0be9	Automatically removes leading and trailing spaces from tags because tags are often entered with a space after each comma. This uses .trim() in func.render_tags() to remove when rendering as well as .map(str => str.trim()) when a post or post edit is submitted so they are also stored without spaces.	2025-09-07 22:11:58 +01:00
deadvey	e3e5469e1a	Made it so if an invalid user or post is loaded, a proper error message is shown instead of just a nodeJS error message	2025-09-06 23:54:49 +01:00
DeaDvey	c8af978259	docs and also I improved the readability/user friendliness of the EJS	2025-09-03 22:28:50 +01:00
DeaDvey	99e07389d0	* more proffesional language in rejecting AI * footer uses locales	2025-08-27 19:00:49 +01:00
DeaDvey	532010f873	bug fix for site_admin config field	2025-08-27 18:53:29 +01:00
DeaDvey	5917789c5b	add webadmin as a field in the config	2025-08-27 18:51:59 +01:00
DeaDvey	4f0941262e	Withdraw consent for AI scraping	2025-08-27 18:49:33 +01:00
DeaDvey	27b9ee6437	* added "quotes" to the locales * made all the ejs pages use "postID" as the variable for post indexes * split up en-GB and en-US	2025-08-27 18:30:26 +01:00
DeaDvey	c73ce69f93	bug fix: postID -> post_index	2025-08-27 18:19:12 +01:00
DeaDvey	5bd0429ae2	timeline, userpage and tag page have an edit post option.	2025-08-27 17:58:48 +01:00
DeaDvey	6e583d1410	removed webroot dir	2025-08-27 16:41:39 +01:00
DeaDvey	cf784a1a99	removed webroot dir (in .gitignore)	2025-08-27 16:40:53 +01:00
deadvey	b3ea048244	bug fix RSS and ATOM using func.render_md instead of showdown	2025-08-27 16:36:21 +01:00
DeaDvey	9b5d3f3f73	Fixed issue relating to showdownjs not escaping html tags by porting to markdown-it, also introduced a new function: func.render_md	2025-08-27 15:09:57 +01:00
DeaDvey	5f07db1e15	tables in CONFIG.md	2025-08-09 21:10:23 +01:00
DeaDvey	d298717519	Testing markdown tables	2025-08-09 21:05:58 +01:00
DeaDvey	0b25fb221b	Documentation	2025-08-09 20:53:57 +01:00
DeaDvey	f85c4aa893	Minor change to /index/pages EJS	2025-08-09 16:59:57 +01:00
DeaDvey	6fc1f85e18	Added locale (english only at the moment) and modifed the EJS so I think every string is customisable (via the /locales/selected locale)	2025-08-09 16:57:31 +01:00
DeaDvey	8418318d80	Added fake form at the top of html in attempt to mitigate spam, probably wont work that well but might as well try	2025-08-09 13:18:44 +01:00
DeaDvey	44a060508b	Hitcount is now created by init.initialise()	2025-08-09 13:00:07 +01:00
DeaDvey	49c7fc7cdf	init.initialise() checks for correct path of config.json (bug fix)	2025-08-09 12:51:43 +01:00
DeaDvey	144c276bc9	Fixed init.initialise() checking for .js files as opposed to .json files	2025-08-09 12:48:25 +01:00
DeaDvey	df4bc99d9a	Initialise() imports fs (bug fix)	2025-08-09 12:44:39 +01:00
DeaDvey	3e2a63bfd7	Export the init.initialise() function (bug fix)	2025-08-09 12:42:18 +01:00
DeaDvey	bced9c7c0e	CONFIG.md documentation and also fixed a bug where when ATOM files are loaded the config.rss boolean is actually checked as opposed to config.atom, fixed by also adding string.atom_disabled to config.json :)	2025-08-02 03:00:20 +01:00
DeaDvey	f723e37732	docs and that	2025-08-02 02:48:22 +01:00
DeaDvey	8b9ddcf048	Added page indexes for comments, posts, users and pages overall, should add one for tags but it might be inefficient as I don't store all tags in an array or anything...	2025-08-02 00:51:33 +01:00
DeaDvey	5f2aba0c2b	Site wide header (currently only used for a link to / but will add index's for stuff later)	2025-08-01 23:27:28 +01:00
DeaDvey	cdfc5f2c30	Post doesn't exist page	2025-08-01 23:21:43 +01:00
DeaDvey	88b198365d	user, post and comment objects contain their ID's now.	2025-08-01 12:34:29 +01:00
DeaDvey	b683b658f7	Comments now have their own pages, at /comment/commentID, these are linked to when someone replies to another comment (>> id), I also fixed a bug in comment submission where the counter was not incrementing	2025-07-31 03:58:28 +01:00
DeaDvey	0cc319a702	Added user specific RSS and ATOM feeds and updated the EJS templates to add them by default to the user's header section	2025-07-30 01:28:23 +01:00
DeaDvey	72316094e4	Updated the readme to have a better feature section	2025-07-30 01:12:29 +01:00
DeaDvey	47877e71d4	atom functionality is added and I fixed an issue in the RSS that is caused by the deleted posts not having valid data.	2025-07-30 01:09:51 +01:00
DeaDvey	0c43c7315c	editing user redirects to user's page and began to implment ATOM	2025-07-30 00:43:21 +01:00
DeaDvey	39eba8fcda	posts are marked as deleted to preserve array structure	2025-07-28 15:11:26 +01:00
DeaDvey	38d82f9e1a	Readme formatting stuff	2025-07-23 02:55:08 +01:00
DeaDvey	bb62ccf25f	Readme	2025-07-23 02:54:24 +01:00
DeaDvey	40e0cc80a3	re-added markdown support under EJS	2025-07-23 02:49:05 +01:00
DeaDvey	306adf3943	rss in ejs	2025-07-23 02:38:03 +01:00
DeaDvey	ff1d34a7ab	put package.json in / again	2025-07-23 02:22:13 +01:00
DeaDvey	797d894621	lots of fixes and more EJS	2025-07-23 02:20:38 +01:00
deadvey	929151a16d	Update CONFIG.md removed stuff about format indicators	2025-07-22 23:40:19 +02:00
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				`export let timeline = '<html><head><meta charset="<%=charset%>"><style></style></head><body><div id="header">${header_div}</div><div id="posts">${posts_div}</div></body><footer>${footer_div}</footer></html>'`