The static resources now support Gzip Compression. Software-wide support is coming with the upcoming router rewrite!
Revamped Tempra Simple's topic view. We now use emojis instead of text for the fields. Experimental.
Simplified the json permissions in the installer.
Fixed some places where the wrong error handler is used.
Fixed a bug in the word counter where it was off by one.
The word count is now tracked by the topics and replies.
Added the Not Loggedin group.
The Reports Forum is now only available to staff.
Groups are now stored in a slice instead of a map for extra concurrency and speed.
Testing background SVGs.
You can now toggle a forum's visibility via the Forum Manager.
Added the Inline Form API to global.js
The reports forum can now be edited but not deleted.
Tempra Simple and Tempra Conflux now support backgrounds.
You can now use the left and right keyboard keys to go to the next and previous page.
Making the shell files a little friendlier. Needs testing.
The main executable will always be named gosora.exe or the Linux equivalent ./Gosora
Reports is now a physical forum and not a "virtual" one.
Added create_forum() and delete_forum() for creating and deleting forums.
Synced the installer's config.go with the main one.
Forums are now stored in slices rather than maps for improved performance and concurrency.
You can now set a forum as hidden when initially creating it.
BBCode tag names may only be seven characters long now. This is part of a new anti-overflow measure that's much faster and simpler than the previous one.
Updated the last block of code in routes.go which uses the antiquated "success = 0" error detection method.
Fixed a visual bug in the Control Panel CSS.
Seperated the system forums from the normal ones in the Forum Manager.
You can now see if a forum is marked as Hidden in the Forum Manager.
Fixed the position of the lock status indicator.
IP Addresses now have a simple title attribute explaining that this long incomprehensible string is in fact an IP Address.
Textareas look a little better now.
Next / Previous buttons are now visible on mobile.
.bat files always say what they're doing now.
Added template functions for arithmetic.
Split the "TO-DO" section of README.md into it's own file.
Themes can now mark themselves as permanently disabled.
Improved the BBCode Bounds Checking.
Fixed a bug with the BBCode parser where part of the content at the end is cut off.
is_super_admin is now a hidden flag and isn't taken into account for Staff CSS.
Themes can now show a custom tag in the Theme Manager.
Admins and mods can now see the IP Addresses of users.
The last IP Address of a user is now tracked.
The IP Addresses a user used to create replies and topics are now tracked.
Dramatically improved the speed of templates with the new Fragment System. More optimisations to come!
Decreased the memory usage of compiled templates with the new Fragment System.
build.bat now provides more information on what it's doing.
Added the `go generate` command to the .bat files in preparation for the future.
We're currently in the process of overhauling the benchmark system to run tests in parallel rather than serially. More news on that later.
We're also looking into the best way of integrating pprof with the benchmarks for detailed profiling.
The internal and notfound errors are now static pages.
Internal Error pages are now served properly.
Optimised most of the errors.
Added an internal flag for checking if the plugins have been initialised yet. Mainly for tests.
Decoupled the global initialisation code from the tests.
Removed URL Tags from Tempra Simple. We're pondering over how to re-introduce this in a less intrusive way.
Template file writing is now multi-threaded.
The number of maximum open connections is now explicitly set.
Removed the Name field from the page struct.
Turned some of the most frequently hit queries into prepared statements.
Added the [rand] BBCode.
Converted the NoticeList map into a slice.
Added the missing_tag error type to the [url] tag.
error_notfound is now used for when the router can't find a route.
Fixed a bug in the custom page route where both the page AND the error is served when the page doesn't exist.
Removed some deferrals.
Reduced the number of allocations on the topic page.
run.bat now provides more information on what it's doing.
The .bat files now exit upon encountering an error.
Post, bigpost, megapost, and topic stats are now tracked for each user.
Added the bigpost_min_chars and megapost_min_chars settings. Probably needs to be renamed.
Added the Levels test. Run `go test -run "Levels"`
The installer now validates the inputted server port.
Added a word counter utility function.
The template engine now borks less on variable nodes.
Added the lt, gt, ge, eq and ne to the template engine. I'm fairly sure eq was already in there, but things get handled differently depending on what type of node it is.
Eliminated more "success" variables by converting the errors over into InternalError() and LocalErrors()
Added more images and updated others.
The [code] tag is now enabled by default.
Fixed some visual flaws in the profiles.
Profile comments are no longer overriden by Tempra Conflux's post layout CSS.
A lock emoji is now used instead of [Status|closed] blocks.
Moved more inline CSS into the stylesheets.
Usernames now link to the profiles in the Tempra Conflux, Cosmo and Cosmo Conflux themes.
The porting is still underway, part of it relies on functionality which hasn't be implemented in Gosora yet like sidebars and alerts.
Restructured the BBCode parser plugin.
Added the [code] tag to the BBCode parser. Disabled by default for now.
Added a benchmark for comparing performance between when [code] is enabled and when it isn't.
Tweaked the templates to make them more flexible, thus allowing a wider variety of themes.
Images of the themes can now be found in the Theme Manager.
There's an emoji on each theme row to show which themes are mobile friendly and which aren't.
Fixed editing and deleting posts on Tempra Conflux.
Moved a large portion of the inline CSS in the topic_alt template into the stylesheets.
You can now switch between themes in the Control Panel.
The Alternate Post Layout teased in various screenshots and bits of inaccessible code is now the Tempra Conflux theme, while the original post layout is the Tempa Simple theme.
Dramatically increased the speed at which the static files are served.
Added a benchmark for static files.
Eliminated the name parameter in various custom page structs.
Added the TopicsPage struct for the /topics/ route.
Added the ForumPage struct for the /forum/{id} route.
Added the ForumsPage struct for the /forums/ route.
The static file route now serves 404s when a file doesn't exist instead of nearly crashing the server.
Reduced the number of unnecessary allocations on some of the routes.
Added gradients to Tempra Conflux.
Added position: sticky; to the userinfo blocks in Tempra Conflux.
Added a notice on the generated template files.
The profile route is now compiled again. A custom struct is now used for it instead of the generic Page struct.
Added the group list to the Control Panel.
Tweaked the navbar CSS.
Non-mods can no longer post in locked topics.
Locked topics now have a gray background on the topic view header, the forum view, and the topiclist,
The reply content box no longer shows up on topics which don't have any replies.
The router is now benchmarked. The custom router we'll use to replace it will also be benchmarked once it's completed.
Added a placeholder page for the Control Panel Dashboard.
Tightened some of the control panel route permission checks.
Moved the Control Panel menu into it's own template.
Added permission checks to the links on the Control Panel menu.
Added the account activation system (just manual activations, email ones are coming later o.o).
Changed the benchmark test to an interface{} struct versus a typed one.
Changed the compiled template holders from a map of functions to handle variables.
Added elses for loops in the template compiler.
Added the list setting type.
Added friendlier values to the setting page :)
Added a link to the profile on the User Manager and new mini-tag mark-up to go with it.
The benchmark now uses ten replies instead of one for a more relevant result.
Slices are now used instead of maps for itemLists.
The compiled template engine now supports slice loops.
More routes are compiled now.
Fixed a bug with the sorting of the itemLists in the templates.
Guests can no longer see the reply creation forms.
Fixed the notice system.
I'm slowly rolling this feature out to the various routes and doing tests.
Added the notice system.
Added the "You are banned" notice.
Added the Sendmail experimental plugin for sending emails without needing a SMTP server.
Added the debug flag for tuning down the amount of noise in the console.
Converted a system notice over to the notice system.
Changed the Activation Function signature to allow it to return errors which abort the process of plugin activation.
Plugins can now set tags. These will be visible in the Plugin Manager at a later date to specify a small snippet of additional information.
Variadic hooks are now first class citizens of the Plugin API rather than just an experiment.
SessionCheck() and the new SimpleSessionCheck() can now halt further processing of a route.
Deleted plugins are no longer shown on the Plugin Manager.
The registration form no longer allows users with blank names, emails or passwords to register.
The registration form now blocks some extremely common passwords.
Added the new status CSS to the /forum/ route.
Simplified some of the range loops in the templates.
Added the report system.
Rebranded the project.
Improved the installation instructions.
Changed the open / close status CSS.
Added the Hello World plugin.
Added the Skeleton plugin.
Added the ability to ban and unban users.
Improved the installation instructions.
Changed the collation of the tables from utf8_general_ci to utf8mb4_general_ci.
Changed the group ID order.
Custom pages are now templates rather than little snippets being inserted into a template.
Changed the collation of the driver to utf8mb4_general_ci.
Added a default_group config setting.
Ban flag is overwritten for admins and super mods.
Profile owners can now moderate their own profiles.
Fixed an issue with database entries being set as null.
A message now appears when there aren't any topics in a forum or in the global topics list.
Added the link to the current user's profile to the main menu.
Database Changes.
not nulled some columns.
Added is_mod column to users_groups.
Added the Moderator usergroup.
Added the profile comment system.
Added group tags.
Improved the avatar placement logic.
Users without avatars will now get noavatars. Customisable in config.go
Only admins can see the Control Panel link now.
Fixed a problem with Git not including /uploads/ which can crash the program.
Database changes:
Added active column to forums.
Added tag column to users_groups.
Added the users_replies table.
Commented out the replies_reports table.
Added an executable file. Only works on Windows, if it doesn't work, then try building it for yourself with build.bat or go build
Tweaked run.bat to make it more firewall friendly. It now generates an executable.
Moved the files around to make it more organised.
Added build.bat which you can use to build the program for you and install the libraries the software depends on.
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