Jabin

I fixed a whole bunch of little stuff and made more little improvements, including:
- blockquotes show properly in comments
- you can like/unlike posts on user pages now
- some other things that are important

Started working on landing page, secured admin API route with cookie checking, and fixed a small bug when loading the admin panel. Pictured is the landing page.

I added the admin page where you can change your guestbook settings if you are the admin.

Preset themes are now fully finished, entries/signs are timestamped and loaded by newest first automatically.

Implemented blocked words server-side.

You can now sign the guestbook!

Setup wizard now submits the guestbook data which is saved in the config.json file, and redirects to what will be the guestbook's main page including guestbook info (which is fetched from the config.json).

I started working on this project with an idea in mind: a selfhostable guestbook software anybody can use and customize to their liking for their personal website. I started by designing a setup wizard that runs when someone first runs their guestbook. It takes them through all the steps necessary for setting up their guestbook, including 6 premade themes, the option for custom CSS, and even a word filter. The video shows the initial setup experience.

Tweetof is now publicly accessible and ready to ship for the first time! Posting, replying, and some pages are not yet implemented but will be included in the next ship! You can browse the site logged out (on the explore tab) on https://tweetof.jab11n.tech/ !

Finished the explore page! I'm nearly ready to ship it for the first time.

Okay I lied, I was going to do the trending posts next but I took a little break and added the user profile dropdown menu, so once you log in you can, y'know, log out? Anyway I did that and did a whole bunch of little quality improvements all around the site, such as redirecting to the home feed after you successfully log in instead of just giving you a javascript alert, and actually moving the Load More Posts button to the bottom of the home and user post feeds after more posts are loaded (I had incorrect logic before). Once I finish the explore page fully I'll ship this for the first time!

I begun work on the explore page and got a functioning top users section! I got to do some experimenting with CSS grids for this part. (They still confuse me a bit) Next up: the trending posts.

I implemented liking posts from the homepage and user page! (Since this is my first devlog, I'll add context: Posts and things load, but most interactive features are still missing.)