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M̴̛̫̀ã̴̩̙̲͖̖l̴͓̪̮̈́̎p̸͔̘̹̲̘͇͒̽̌̓͗͠e̵̮̙̜̜̝͑̐̕ͅȑ̷͙̰͙̞̐͜͝͠͝c̶̢̱̹̻̚͜í̶̡̝̀̅̽̏ŏ̴̩͓̈̀̂

I'm finally ready to show off the thing I've been working on: atBB (pre-alpha)! It's a forum platform built on top of atproto. I wrote up some thoughts about why I am interested in building forums: pckt.blog/b/mal-s-musi... 1/2

pckt.blogWhat the World Needs Now is Forums Sweet Forums - Mal’s Musingsand other thoughts from a forums purveyorI was seven years old when I got my first video game console. It was Christmas, and I actually got two! A GameBoy Po...

25/2/26, 1:16 am14 reposts37 likes

M̴̛̫̀ã̴̩̙̲͖̖l̴͓̪̮̈́̎p̸͔̘̹̲̘͇͒̽̌̓͗͠e̵̮̙̜̜̝͑̐̕ͅȑ̷͙̰͙̞̐͜͝͠͝c̶̢̱̹̻̚͜í̶̡̝̀̅̽̏ŏ̴̩͓̈̀̂

@malpercio.dev

25 Feb

I have a forum deployed here that anyone should be able to access and post: forums.atbb.space and the repo here: tangled.org/malpercio.de... Terrified to be showing it off, but I hope this is something y'all find interesting, collaborators welcome. :) 2/2

forums.atbb.spaceatBB Community Forum — atBB Forum

M̴̛̫̀ã̴̩̙̲͖̖l̴͓̪̮̈́̎p̸͔̘̹̲̘͇͒̽̌̓͗͠e̵̮̙̜̜̝͑̐̕ͅȑ̷͙̰͙̞̐͜͝͠͝c̶̢̱̹̻̚͜í̶̡̝̀̅̽̏ŏ̴̩͓̈̀̂

@malpercio.dev

25 Feb

There is still quite a few rough edges and a lot of work to do, so don't expect a fully polished experience if you do check it out. However I hope you do! a prime example is that you'll usually need to refresh to see your new posts 😅 but these are solvable problems!

VentingNonsense

@ciql.net

25 Feb

sorry for immediately posting a bug report lmao

M̴̛̫̀ã̴̩̙̲͖̖l̴͓̪̮̈́̎p̸͔̘̹̲̘͇͒̽̌̓͗͠e̵̮̙̜̜̝͑̐̕ͅȑ̷͙̰͙̞̐͜͝͠͝c̶̢̱̹̻̚͜í̶̡̝̀̅̽̏ŏ̴̩͓̈̀̂

@malpercio.dev

25 Feb

I think I've fixed the bug you reported, thanks again!

M̴̛̫̀ã̴̩̙̲͖̖l̴͓̪̮̈́̎p̸͔̘̹̲̘͇͒̽̌̓͗͠e̵̮̙̜̜̝͑̐̕ͅȑ̷͙̰͙̞̐͜͝͠͝c̶̢̱̹̻̚͜í̶̡̝̀̅̽̏ŏ̴̩͓̈̀̂

@malpercio.dev

25 Feb

hahaha no worries! appreciate you taking the time, I'll take a look :)

embedding-shapes

@emsh.cat

25 Feb

Woo, amazing! So glad you published it, been thinking about atproto based forum for like a year! Glad someone got there first :) Any particular difficulties you had implementing it? What you feel like is the most thorny parts atm? Anything unsolved currently?

M̴̛̫̀ã̴̩̙̲͖̖l̴͓̪̮̈́̎p̸͔̘̹̲̘͇͒̽̌̓͗͠e̵̮̙̜̜̝͑̐̕ͅȑ̷͙̰͙̞̐͜͝͠͝c̶̢̱̹̻̚͜í̶̡̝̀̅̽̏ŏ̴̩͓̈̀̂

@malpercio.dev

25 Feb

I think the UX is pretty barebones at the moment, and admin/mod controls are pretty sparse. Separation between write paths (write to PDS) and read paths (ingest from firehouse to db) leads to some sync issues, but on the flip I’m excited to explore SSE for a more realtime feel.

M̴̛̫̀ã̴̩̙̲͖̖l̴͓̪̮̈́̎p̸͔̘̹̲̘͇͒̽̌̓͗͠e̵̮̙̜̜̝͑̐̕ͅȑ̷͙̰͙̞̐͜͝͠͝c̶̢̱̹̻̚͜í̶̡̝̀̅̽̏ŏ̴̩͓̈̀̂

@malpercio.dev

25 Feb

Onboarding needs a lot of work too, I think. Before you even begin, you have to have set up an account for the forum, and right now a CLI helps bootstrap the forum structure, but I’d like some kind of first-run wizard that operators could run through in-browser.

M̴̛̫̀ã̴̩̙̲͖̖l̴͓̪̮̈́̎p̸͔̘̹̲̘͇͒̽̌̓͗͠e̵̮̙̜̜̝͑̐̕ͅȑ̷͙̰͙̞̐͜͝͠͝c̶̢̱̹̻̚͜í̶̡̝̀̅̽̏ŏ̴̩͓̈̀̂

@malpercio.dev

25 Feb

Biggest unsolved thing at the moment is the ownership of the forum and delegation, I think. Right now, you create an account and hand the username/password to atBB so it can create records in its own repo. Works fine, but I’m not sure if it’s the right fit long term.