gist

About

Gist, formerly hosted at gist.gg, is basically a Tumblr clone. It is powered by Sails.js, Vue, Postgres, Redis, any S3 compatible object store. Here are some of its features:

• Rich text posts with:
  • Embedded link are re-writing to have an external content warning
  • Whitelist based html sanitizer
• Image posts (with re-encoding of images during upload)
• Post comments
• Reblogging of posts
• Post popularity ranking based on reblogs and time decay
• User reporting of abusive content
• Admin system with IP/Email/account banning

Setup

• Go through the configs, especially custom, env/production and env/staging and switch out URLs and endpoints to what you need.
• Build a docker image with the included dockerfile
• Make sure you have a Postgres DB, Redis instance, and S3 compatible object store.
• Make a sendgrid account and get your API credentials set up
• Run docker image with the following environment variables set (or in the configs, but not recommended since they are secrets):
  • sails_datastores__default__url
  • sails_custom__sendgridSecret
  • sails_session__host
  • sails_session__port
  • sails_session__pass
  • sails_sockets__host
  • sails_sockets__port
  • sails_sockets__pass
  • sails_custom__s3Key
  • sails_custom__s3Secret
• Run SQL/setup.sql on your database to set up some constraints and keys that Sails.js couldn't support with their automigration
• I recommend using Kubernetes to deploy

License & Copyright

Copyright 2022, Philippe Gray

Gist is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Gist is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.