thenewboston Social Network
Welcome to the GitHub page for thenewboston, an open source social network created with the goal of providing free educational resources to anyone in the world.
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Overview
Over the years, thenewboston has evolved from a small-scale tutorial based website into one fastest growing, most innovative social networks on the web. Our open source software is not only 100% free, but also has the best communities for any help and support in the world.
https://www.thenewboston.com/
How to Setup
The following guides explain how to install and setup the project for developers.
Social Features
Here are some of the standard features that are included in the project:
- Stream - view all posts, images, and videos from your friends
- User Profiles - displays your profile picture, name, and other basic information
- Post Settings - manage whether a post is public or viewable only by your friends
- Private Messaging - easy to use system for direct messaging between users
- Real Time Chat - intergrated real time messaging system
- Notifications - notification settings for friend posts, forum topics, and more
- Most Popular - view top rated posts, images, and videos
- Pages - create and manage your own pages for any of your hobbies or interests
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Educational Features
Here are some of the standard features that are included in the project:
- Forum - community bulletin board where users can ask questions, share ideas, and participate in public discussions
- Search - users can search for friends, pages, forum posts, and more
- Reputation System - members will earn reputation points and badges for fun when their post or forum topic is liked
- Videos & Tutorials - one of the webs largest collections of educational videos and tutorials on subjects such as computer science, math, humanities, and more
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Bitcoin Features
Inspired by the beliefs of freedom and innovation, we have created several Bitcoin related tools and services which are fully integrated into every user account.
- Built-in Wallet - every account comes with a personal, easy to use Bitcoin wallet
- Marketplace - marketplace where users can buy and sell items with Bitcoin
- Ad Network - advertising network where advertisers and publishers can buy and sell ads using Bitcoin
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Admin Features
Easily manage posts, users, and permissions.
- Manage Users - advanced management system to verify, ban, and delete users
- Manage Posts - ability to review, edit, and delete
- User Permissions - easily manage permissions for registered users, moderators, and administrators
- Reporting - community based reporting system for forum topics, profile posts, and more
Contribute
Feel free to donate to help support the project. All contributions will be used to improve the website and will help us build a bigger and better community.
Donation Bitcoin Address: 16FCD5zrkJp6AqfDm3j6LBWNYx1Gard2Z1
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