BobaBoard is a modern, open source community-building software that draws inspiration from old-school forums for functionality and from modern social media for its style of interaction. It prioritizes privacy and fluidity of identity for users within communities and allows high levels of customization and fine-grained permission settings for users, community managers, and instance owners. The unique UX encourages creative expression across different formats, styles of communication, and community building.
You can find out more about BobaBoard in general on our website and as a project by visiting our project guide.
boba-frontend handles the interactions of our UI with the server, lays out the pages that BobaBoard is made of, and supplies the functionality of those pages.
Boba-frontend requires boba-backend to function as it queries the backend for user, thread, and post states.
Boba-components provides boba-frontend with its UI pieces primarily impacting the design of the UI.
Note
The above description is an "aspirational state" for our repos and we are still working on defining what the boundaries between "boba-frontend" and "boba-components" is so this may be fuzzy in practice.
For detailed instructions on how to develop for BobaBoard, please check out the links below:
Important
Our issue tracker is not up-to-date and we are specifically looking for people to help us wrangle issues into order. If you're very eager to start working, please contact us through our tech form (for coding) or our non-tech form (for issue wrangling).
BobaBoard welcomes one-time contributions. Our volunteer Code of Conduct applies in all of our social spaces, including Github Discussions or when commenting on issues or pull requests.
We are also always looking for long-term volunteers to help with coding, documentation, and other efforts. If you'd like to become a BobaBoard volunteer, please see the Volunteering Guide for details.
