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Author: ugrnm <ultrageranium@bleu255.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2025 23:09:28 +0100
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+**Cerca** is a web forum software built to service small trust-based
+communities and focuses on enabling longform, longer-term discussions. It is
+architected to minimize maintenance and hosting costs by carefully choosing
+which features it supports, how they work, and which features are intentionally
+omitted. It features private threads, a flexible user-driven category system,
+an RSS feed for receiving news of forum activity, and a web interface for
+managing invites, adding and removing users. As a forum software, it also
+prioritizes transparency by logging all administrator actions in a view
+accessible by all forum members, and post deletion + edits are restricted
+solely to post authors.
+
+
+Relevance to permacomputing
+---------------------------
+
+Cerca is built following a [collapse
+informatics](https://damaged.bleu255.com/Collapse_Informatics/) approach i.e.
+making the best of what we have today for a potentially more depleted tomorrow.
+Its development is mindful of permacomputing constraints while simultaneously
+weighing them against deployment, user experience, and longer-term developer
+interests. In general, it is a forum software that is easy to deploy
+(respectful resource utilisation), easy to work on (low cognitive load), and
+easy to maintain (few external systems and dependencies).
+
+
+Limits and challenges
+---------------------
+
+Being part of the [[Golang|Go]] ecosystem, it relies mostly on [[Big Tech]]
+development infrastructure, and its existence is dependent on upstream changes
+from Alphabet/Google and development infrastructure. While the platform owners
+are somewhat careful with breaking changes, their change in policies have
+already impacted Cerca by impacting how dependencies must be kept up to date,
+[example](https://github.com/cblgh/cerca/pull/89#issuecomment-2486083652).
+
+
+Links
+-----
+
+- https://cblgh.org/cerca
+- https://github.com/cblgh/cerca
+
