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Vichan is the most popular and widely used imageboard software in the world. It is a free, light-weight, fast, highly configurable and user-friendly imageboard software package.
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Demo website #756

Closed catamphetamine closed 4 months ago

catamphetamine commented 4 months ago

Hi. I was just passing by to see if there was any activity in the repo and I've noticed that you've created a website at vichan.info I can see that it's a Wiki, although when clicking that link I expected something different — a live demo website. Since you're already hosting a PHP wiki, why not host a vichan instance itself? It could just be a couple of boards: /test and, say, /support.

The rationale: if someone finds the repo, before installing the engine, they'd have to "demo" it somehow. An analogy would be bying shoes. I mean, there're even no screenshots in the docs. And no "showcase" video. If a user can't see what vichan is, they won't bother installing it. The most user-friendly demo would be having a demo website running on vichan engine itself.

P.S. GitHub seems to have a pretty usable Wiki in the "Wiki" tab (no custom hosting required).

Offtopic: I was also developing an "alternative" javascript-based client for engines like vichan: https://anychans.github.io/lainchan/%CE%BB I was thinking about finishing the "posting" part. If you create a "demo" website and you'd like to host this alternative GUI on that website, I could assist in that, in which case you could ping me in this issue.

You can also close this issue if you have already planned on rolling out a "live demo" instance of vichan.

RealAngeleno commented 4 months ago

I do for now, kind of: https://dev.vichan.info, though this is more of a test of vichan 5.2.0. It's definitely something I am thinking about. Though if I did a demo, it would allow users to log into the admin portal, though some changes like not being able to change your own password, cloaking ips, etc.

catamphetamine commented 4 months ago

I do for now, kind of: https://dev.vichan.info/, though this is more of a test of vichan 5.2.0

Oh, I see. So you do have a "stealth" demo deployment. Cool. You could add this link to the README then somewhere at the top. Otherwise, people that stumble upon the repo won't even know how "vichan" looks like.

Though if I did a demo, it would allow users to log into the admin portal, though some changes like not being able to change your own password, cloaking ips, etc.

I see, you're planning to deploy a full admin-access-level demo. That sounds like it would make sense. In that case, you could create some kind of a "cron" job that would reset any settings every N minutes or so. Ok then, that's out of the scope of the original comment though.