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/>

> [!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](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 via EJS
* site wide and user specific rss, atom
* hitcount
* Markdown syntax in posts
* Commenting on posts and replying to other comments
* site wide custom CSS
* Page indexes

# Bugs
* probably scales like shit
* probably insecure as hell

# Planned features/todo list
* federation (looks tricky)
* All strings (including in edit and post page) customisable
    * formatable custom strings
* inline comments and docs
* clean up code a bit
* /postID and /userID pages
* site index
* Make EJS modification more user friendly
* API for returning posts, users, comments, tags other?...

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