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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 via the web frontend (no need to remote to your server to make a post)
* multi user
* powerful customisation
* rss
* timeline, user page, post page and tag specific page
* edit/delete posts
* hitcount
* Markdown syntax in posts
* Commenting on posts
* sign up and delete account
* ejs
* custom CSS _file_
# Bugs
* probably scales like shit
* probably insecure as hell
# Planned features/todo list
* edit user (could be on instead of the delete_account page)
* user specific RSS feeds
* atom
* federation (looks tricky)
* All strings (including in edit and post page) customisable
* formatable custom strings
* inline comments and docs
* clean up code a bit
* comment pages?
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