Kleebah

Motivation

Accessible software to share blogs, vlogs, links or anything else without being locked into a privately owned ecosystem.

Features

Required for 1.0

• Markdown editor for writing blogs
• Editing/deleting existing blogs
• Blog viewer
• RSS feed
• Image upload
• Authentication with optional 2FA
• Docker setup
• Proper GitHub releases
• Subscriber CRUD (username, password)
• Option to make a blog entry private, limiting access to subscribers
• Token generation per subscriber to receive private blog entries in their RSS feed
• (Temporary) self-registration link that can be generated by admin
• Role-management
  • Admin setting to define roles, hierarchies possible
  • Default roles family, friends, close friends
  • Add multi-select field to subscriber CRUD
  • Option on private blog entries to define required roles
  • Update RSS feed to consider roles
• docs folder to host a static explainer website in github pages
  • Wizard to find the optimal way of hosting for each user
• Multi-blog instances with caddy docker, subdomain per blog
• Automatic deployment strategy
• Well-structured CSS to style the whole app
• Miscellaneous cleanup / small features
  • less duplicate code in CRUD backend
  • enable deletion of posting images
  • display form validation errors with toasts
  • better structure for lib/server folder
  • handle deletion attempts, if foreign key references exist

Post 1.0

• Demo instance, linked on the explainer website
• Use environment variables to set up initial admin automatically
• Support for draft / hidden flag on postings
• Backups
  • Simple download of files and database in a tarball
  • Restore from tarball backup
  • Automated backup solution (maybe SFTP or Borg)
• Automated
• Cache blog access
  • Used for RSS feed and web list of blogs
  • Invalidated based on role change (on subscriber or blog level)
• Alternative to classic blogs
  • Link post
  • Image (carousel) post
  • Allow embedding of carousel in classic blog as well
• Option to switch between Markdown and HTML blog editor
• Blog templates
• Email support (Mailgun or Mailjet)
  • Add email to user schema
  • Input fields for API credentials
  • Send welcome email to new subscriber
  • Enable OTP login via email
  • Switch for admin to allow blog delivery via email
  • Switch for subscribers to receive delivery via email
• Invite link via QR-code
• Standalone apps via Tauri
• Telegram support (to be defined)
• Admin CRUD (no single owner, all admins are identical)
• Auditing for admin settings
• Writer CRUD (can write blogs, but not change admin settings)
• Public API
• Custom feed within the app as RSS feed alternative
• Most dead simple way to find people to follow
  • Optional phone number field in the settings
  • Phone number is hashed, then sent to some central server with database, along with blog URL
  • Anyone who wants to find all of their friends' blogs can give access to their address book on phone
  • App will then hash all of the numbers and ask central server to give blog URLs for each
  • User can then simply subscribe to the public blog or ask for private blog access
  • Option to change the central server endpoint, so different communities can have their own private ledgers
• Webfinger integration

Tech Stack

• SvelteKit for frontend and backend
• Vanilla Tailwind for styling
• SQLite database