better-than-memes is an unholy fusion of Reddit/the idea of threaded comments
and Usenet's "board/topic hierarchy."
Comments thread and nest, and so do the "boards." This largely comes from
exploiting the ltree PostgreSQL extension.
It is, in a way, the worst of both worlds, being centralized like Reddit and
obsessively "organized" like Usenet. Hopefully the centralized part goes away
soon.
Why would you want to do this?
You'll need to have a PostgreSQL database up and running. Edit POSTGRES_CONFIG
in config.py to match the details to connect to your database. Also, set the
SECRET_KEY to something a little more secure.
To create the required tables, execute setup.sql on your database. This will
create tables for comments, posts, users, etc.
Once your database is setup, install the required Python libraries with
something like pip install -r requirements.txt. You should then be able to
run better-than-memes with any ASGI
server - though because better-than-memes is based on Quart, the "official"
recommendation is to use Hypercorn.
# start hypercorn server
hypercorn app:app