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Feature requests for making vichan Tor/I2P/Lokinet ready #454

Closed maq33 closed 2 years ago

maq33 commented 3 years ago

I'm planning to host an imageboard on Tor (.onion address), but I'm afraid of someone make a flood there.

So, I addressed features that if implemented, would make vichan compatible with anonymity networks like Tor, I2P and Lokinet.

1 - Interval of X seconds between thread and post creation. ===> This would prevent some retards to post lots of texts repeatedly and also defeat scripts made to flood imageboards; this option would require cookies to work.

2 - Max threads per hour. ===> In a imageboard, an owner can estimate how many threads are created by hour and establish a limit for preventing flood in board pages.

3 - Captcha mechanism for threads and posts that doesn't require JavaScript. ===> This can prevent flood; and users worried about privacy leaks in their browsers (particularly TorBrowser) can solve the captcha without problems. This PHP captcha mechanism would be great: https://www.phpcaptcha.org/

4 - IDs system and an option to delete all posts in a specific board or in entire imageboard. ===> Connections coming from Tor and I2P will appear as "127.0.0.1", so, deleting repeated posts in a flood attack can affect other threads, posts or even the entire imageboard if the one is hosted only in a .onion or .i2p pseudo-domain. Deleting posts by ID would affect only the matched posts and threads. A smart idea.

5 - Link anonymizing. ===> This prevents sites to "see" from what site the link to it was clicked. It's easy to implement as anchor in HTML5 has an option to modify the link behavior: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/a#attr-referrerpolicy ===> External services can also be used: https://href.li -- https://anonym.to -- https://www.linkanonymous.com -- https://anonym.es/en.html

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These are my requests for making vichan compatible with anonymity networks.

ctrlcctrlv commented 3 years ago

Using Vichan as a base for major new development is a terrible idea; you should consider another modifying imageboard package.