[campingrhino]

When can we expect a public demo?

I don't think it'll be too long away, to be honest. I might set up a test board that isn't quite public-ready if people are interested.

I was going to post an update today but it's been a bit of a boring one. I've mainly been plugging bits of the backend to the theme and setting up the theme renderer and I'm actually quite surprised at how easy it's been. I've got recaptcha set up on registrations now as well which is another thing off the checklist.

I've used the Twig template engine for themes as I personally love using it and it'll be fairly easy to make themes for. For newcomers that want to start off by customising their board, when you're using another forum software, I think one of the biggest hurdles is working out the structure to be able to edit themes - this is something I want to make as easy as possible so it's one less thing to worry about and hopefully makes it easier to set up a nice little ecosystem for theme designers. MyBB makes it pretty easy to do this, my only annoyance is the database-based template storage. For people like me that just to open the folder in VS Code and have a play, it makes it quite difficult.

Either way, it's getting somewhere. It's been difficult for me to juggle this and other commitments but I'm enjoying it so far.