myriad

myriad

flask app for plurals to publicly share member lists

assorted todo

• add delete button to blog posts on main feed
• show blog posts in edit member section with a delete button
• page theme edit inside the user (below user theme?)
• apply page theme edits
• add blinkies and stamps sections to member pages
• (require above) add blinkies and stamps upload sections to edit member page
• (require above) add blinkies and stamps link/db cleanup to manage site assets
• page media embeds - video & audio
• how to implement customising pages ?!??!?! i have some ideas. some day

dev set up (windows)

• after cloning, run py -3 -m venv .venv in the root directory and then .venv\Scripts\activate
• then pip install Flask inside the virtual env
• you might also need to init a database, so use flask --app myriad init-db
• to start the site use flask --app myriad run --debug

do not deploy this way, the packaged flask server is not secure. production instructions will be provided when the project is ready

• you will need to run .venv\Scripts\activate from the folder every time you start working on it
• re-building the entire database with flask --app myriad init-db (losing all the data inside) will be necessary as development continues. DO NOT STORE ANYTHING IMPORTANT DURING DEVELOPMENT
• start the site with flask --app myriad run --debug as usual

prod set up

• not ready yet

config

• create config.py in the instance folder and customise the following settings to your needs

REGISTRATION = True # Make sure to disable in production
ALLOWED_EXTENSIONS = {'png', 'jpg', 'jpeg', 'gif'} # Can be anything you want
ICON_UPLOAD_FOLDER = 'myriad/static/icons' # where member icons will be stored
BLINKIES_UPLOAD_FOLDER = 'myriad/static/blinkies' # where site assets "blinkies" will be stored
STAMPS_UPLOAD_FOLDER = 'myriad/static/stamps' # where site assets "stamps" will be stored
INLINE_UPLOAD_FOLDER = 'myriad/static/inline' # where site assets "misc inline" will be stored
MISC_UPLOAD_FOLDER = 'myriad/static/misc' # where other small images will be stored

usage

• the software here is free to use, and there's no requirement to link back
• edit the styles and functionality to suit your needs. i'm sure some of you out there are far better with CSS than I am

dependencies

• Flask

preview

• these screenshots are all from the public viewer's perspective

• homepage with pinned members

• main blog post feed

• member page showing their uploaded icons (just about)

• groups view

• a sample part of the administration

• the theme editor is pretty ugly right now but it does work