Harfang

A social content posting and discussion site with a focus on simplicity and accessibility.
Inspired by Hacker News and Reddit.
Built with Django, HTMX, Alpine.js and Tailwind CSS

Features so far:

• Posts ("Top" and "Latest" views)
• Threaded comment system (i.e. nested comments)
• Votes and points system for posts and comments
• User profiles
• Internationalization
• Content moderation
• Extensive tests
• Rich link previews
• Responsive design
• Markdown syntax for posts
• Dark/Light color-schemes
• Site identity (icons, logos, etc)

Next up:

• Public API (for bot accounts)
• Optimized for accessibility
• Search
• Media Posts
• DMs
• SEO (django-meta)
• Email system
• Cookiecutter version

Dev Quick Start

"just" use the taskrunner.
Or take a look inside the justfile to see the actual commands.

# install requirements
just setup
# create mock data
just populate
# run the dev server
just runserver

Reproducible Dev Environment (optional)

Use nix via devenv to guarantee a consistent environment.
Combine with direnv for automatic shell activation.