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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

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?

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.

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.