My forum passion project: Septagon.net

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Wanted to post this since I've been building it even before hearing about the indie-web / anti-commercial web movement. I got into web development as a kid in middle / high school back when Geocities was a thing and customizing my Invision board with css was my first dip into the coding life.

So here's a bit about my project:
At its core, Septagon is a message board / forum with Bungie.net off-site roots, meaning we generally love old-school Bungie games like Halo (I personally love Destiny but I'm an outlier here).

It's built on a Laravel API back-end (headless) and an Angular front-end.

It supports basic forum functionality, including:

• Board -> Thread -> Post hierarchy for content
• Normal CRUD mechanisms for user content (creating, reading, updating, deleting)
• Simplified content system (we use MARKDOWN)
• A private messaging (PM) system
• Poll system
• User profiles (work in progress) + normal user account settings
• Avatars and user-uploaded image support
• Rank system
• Liking posts
• Roles for staff (moderation, administration, etc.)

Stuff that makes Septagon unique:

• NO TRACKING / DATA HARVESTING. We do not use analytics and only collect your IP for the purposes of protecting the site from bad actors (so we can ban assholes).
• Granular banning system that lets moderators ban on rules broken (which auto-applies restrictions to specific permissions like uploading photos or posting)
• Anonymous posting in some boards, which completely hides you from everyone (except admins, if they are looking through the database).
• Inventory system (in the future you will be able to earn and trade items)
• Nameplates, which are earn-able pieces of flair

Link: https://septagon.net/