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Newbie: what does it take to set up Arc Forums?
5 points by fnazeeri 5908 days ago | 5 comments
I'd like to set up a forum that is virtually identical to hackerne.ws or this forum to complement an existing site/business I already have. Is that an hour task; day task or more for someone who knows what they're doing? What kind of setup does one need?

Lastly, is there anyone who'd be up for a brief chat to discuss this? You can find more about me on my blog (http://www.altgate.com) or email me fn (at) altgate (dot) com.



4 points by conanite 5908 days ago | link

  $ mzscheme -m -f as.scm
  arc> (nsv)
Now, theoretically, you're serving a news forum at http://localhost:8080

Hosting arc has been discussed several times, most recently at http://arclanguage.org/item?id=8830

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2 points by fnazeeri 5908 days ago | link

Okay, I found this cool tutorial (http://plpatterns.com/post/37655887/an-arc-news-forum) and was able to hack together a version of the forum here:

http://news.virid.us:8080/news

I was impressed with this...I'm not a programmer and I was able to light this up in a couple of hours. It's a real testament to the work the community has done!

So here's my next question: how do you change formatting (e.g. the color scheme, footer text, etc.).

Thx again and apologies for the dumb questions.

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3 points by eds 5905 days ago | link

The CSS for news pages is in news.arc, starting around line 345 (search for news.css). You should be able to customize your page's look by editing this.

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1 point by shader 5905 days ago | link

What version of mzscheme does anarki currently require/support?

And is the anarki repo still live, or does it need forking? i.e. is there public commit access?

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1 point by jfornear 5845 days ago | link

I just set up http://www.rawberryjams.com, and I was wondering... How do you fix the post times? They don't seem to be working.

Thanks, Jesse

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