What is MeBo?

So what's MeBo, you might be thinking? MeBo stands for Message Board. As its name implies, it's a... message board. Its goal is to be simple. Simple from a feature standpoint, but also to deploy, so that anyone can run their own MeBo instance. When it comes to features, MeBo doesn't have a lot. If you need something advanced, you might want to look somewhere else. Here is what you can do with MeBo:

* Create threads
* Add replies
* Make threads sticky
* Manage users

That's it. There's only one single board, with threads in it. There's no pagination, all the threads are visible on the index. MeBo is for smaller, slower communities. When a message is posted, the thread is bumped. The CSS that ships by default is minimal so that you can customize it. The code is written in php and doesn't have any dependency. You can use MeBo as a starting point to build on top.

Within posts:

* Links are recognized and clickable
* You can add preformatted text by wrapping it withing three backticks (`) like in markdown

There's no blockquote, but you are encourage to use usenet's convention and use the '>' character, such as:

> this is a blockquote

By default, the posts on the index follow the HTML blog format, allowing anyone to subscribe using atom.

I hope you enjoy using MeBo!

Cool!
Is there any way to quickly check for replies as in Midnight.pub? Perhaps it's out of scope, so no worries if not.

> Is there any way to quickly check for replies as in Midnight.pub? Perhaps it's out of scope, so no worries if not.

I would love to do something like that, but I'm not sure what it would look like, given that we can't reply to an individual post (instead threads get replies)

So I gave it a little more thoughts and tried something. I've added a "Replies" column with a link to the latest reply in a thread. If you have already seen the reply, your browser should style the link with the visited style. Otherwise, it would appear with the active style. I wonder if that is enough to check for replies... curious to hear your thoughts!

I watched the change and... now that I understand it better, it makes sense. It's brilliant indeed!

Awesome! Let's see if it's useful or if we'd need to find another way.