Welcome to Word of Mouth

Word of Mouth is the first ever instance of Lumoforum. It is named that because it was vibecoded in 30 minutes with Lumo (Proton's AI assistant). I wanted to setup existing software but they were either ugly, had a complicated installation process, or both. So I turned to AI and to my surprise it worked and looks good as well.

The index.php is 500 lines of code. In terms of features it's sort of a cross between Kareha and Reddit. Kareha is an anonymous textboard, that's where the simple form-based posting comes from that doesn't require account creation. But unlike Kareha it has user-created communities. Obviously this is a work in progress but the fun part is that I can extend it to my liking.

Happy posting.

Posted by Larry to meta on Mar 22, 2026 9:51 PM

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Planned features:
- Single level comment indentation.
- Democratic spam filtering mechanism.

Larry

# Update
- The communities are now shown as simple links instead of buttons and they have a tilde prefix.
- Image links are now directly embedded.
- Minor cosmetic change: there is now only one separator line between a post and the comment section (was two).

Larry

More planned features:
- post editing
- some separation between canonical and non-canonical communities. So they can still be user-created but the junk ones don't litter the canonical list.

Larry

More planned:
- RSS feeds
- logo + favicon.ico
- Bigger subject lines
- Some type of account system mayhap (but optional)

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